International Relations
How countries cooperate, compete, and make decisions, and the forces shaping the global order.
Where young people meet real research
Solora connects young people with researchers, serious questions, and the work of discovering new knowledge.
We create opportunities to explore the issues shaping the decades ahead, through conversations, collaborative inquiry, interdisciplinary projects, and contact with people working at the frontiers of their fields.
Global · Interdisciplinary · Research-led
What we work on
The questions that will shape the future rarely belong to one subject.
Solora brings young people into inquiry across five connected areas.
- International Relations
- AI & Society
- Sustainable Cities
- Economic Resilience
- Civic Leadership
Our vision
A generation that can hold complexity, work across deep differences, and act with judgment when there is no clear answer.
The future will demand more than expertise in a single subject.
It will require people who can understand unfamiliar ideas, connect knowledge across disciplines, work with people who see the world differently, and make thoughtful decisions under uncertainty.
That is the kind of intellectual capacity we hope to help develop.
Our mission
To give young people meaningful early experience with serious inquiry, and the habits to use it well.
Curiosity. Rigor. Resilience. Intellectual openness.
We believe young people should have opportunities to encounter real questions, real evidence, and the people working to understand the world, not only after years of education, but while they are still deciding what they might be capable of.
Learn how to think, not what to think.
The case for starting early
Most people meet real intellectual questions years too late
Young people often spend years learning established knowledge before encountering the questions researchers are still trying to answer.
But artificial intelligence, climate change, economic disruption, and a changing global order are already reshaping the world this generation will inherit. We believe young people should meet those questions, and the people studying them, while they are still forming how they think.
The goal is not to make everyone a specialist early. It is to help develop adaptive generalists: people who can learn across fields, remain thoughtful when answers are uncertain, and still exercise good judgment.
Focus areas
Five questions we take up with young people
Each focus area is a way into current research, public debate, and real-world problem-solving.
AI & Society
How artificial intelligence is changing work, rights, creativity, institutions, and the distribution of power.
Sustainable Cities
How cities can meet growing demands for housing, transportation, energy, and climate resilience.
Economic Resilience
How economies respond to disruption, and the difficult choices behind the policies that shape everyday life.
Civic Leadership
How people build coalitions, work across differences, and make decisions for the public good.
How we work
We bring young people inside the work of inquiry
The goal is not simply to earn another credential. It is to understand how questions become knowledge, and to learn how to ask better ones.
Depending on the program, participants may:
- Explore a real question with researchers and other young people
- Join conversations with university faculty and practitioners
- Examine evidence and competing perspectives
- Work across disciplines and national boundaries
- Collaborate on projects connected to real-world problems
- Take part in forums, discussions, and international initiatives
The participant journey
How involvement usually unfolds
DiscoverFind a question worth your time
ExploreRead, listen, and follow the debate
ConnectMeet researchers and other young people
CollaborateWork on a project across disciplines
ApplyPut what you have learned to use
A global community of inquiry
The questions we explore do not stop at national borders
Solora brings together young people, researchers, and practitioners across disciplines and perspectives. Neither should the conversations around these questions stop at national borders.
We are interested in creating opportunities for people to encounter ideas and experiences beyond their own institutions, communities, and assumptions.
For young people
Found this site because you were curious? There is a place for you here.
The Solora Youth Network is a global community of young people connected to researchers, serious questions, and each other. Joining is how you hear about programs as they open and take part in the conversations between them.
Free, open to anyone anywhere, and no application to write. Just tell us what you are curious about.
Stay connected
Ideas and opportunities worth a young person's attention
Research opportunities. Conversations with scholars. International initiatives. Questions worth thinking about. Occasional updates from Solora.