INSPIRE designs and runs nationwide carnivals, contests and idea festivals that turn the Sustainable Development Goals into something young Bangladeshis can compete in, build for, and belong to.
INSPIRE — the Initiative for New Solutions for Progress, Innovation, Resilience and Empowerment — is a government-certified, youth-driven non-profit. Every letter of our name is a working principle, not a slogan.
Rather than lecture on the SDGs, we build events that make the goals something young people can enter, win, and carry forward.
Three ongoing programs, each rebuilt every season with new formats, partners and host campuses across Bangladesh.
A nationwide competition and exhibition taking astronomy out of the textbook — talks, observation segments and contests hosted with university partners.
Bangladesh's youth respond to the climate crisis directly — through ideas, art and competitions built around real local environmental challenges.
A two-day national contest pairing original ideas with visual storytelling — open to students building their first real portfolio piece.
A one-off fest proves a team can organise. Ten seasons of one program, run alongside three others in parallel, proves an institution can deliver — season after season, campus after campus, across the country.
Whether you're a student, an institution or a brand, there's a working role for you in the next season.
Join a season's organising team — logistics, design, judging or campus outreach across Bangladesh.
Apply to volunteerHost a segment of an upcoming carnival at your university, as AIUB has for our Astronomy program.
Propose a partnershipBack a nationwide program aligned to the SDGs, with visibility across every district we run in.
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