Inštitut Global Shapers is a community of young people who believe in the power of connections and knowledge. We’re the Ljubljana hub of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Community: volunteers aged 18 to 30, based at Impact Hub Ljubljana, running programmes for young people across Slovenia. Everything we run is free.
Partners and companies we work with
01 — What we do
We create space where young people develop their potential and turn ideas into action. Our programmes sit in the gap between formal education and the practical skills you need to get somewhere: how to pitch, sell, lead a team, argue a point, build a thing.
How we work
Everyone here does this alongside a job or a degree. Nobody is paid, including the people who teach at our programmes.
Whoever runs a project decides how it runs. We ask for advice, not for permission.
Members run real projects with real budgets and real consequences, not token roles.
02 — Our projects
Shapers Academy is the newest thing we’ve built, not the only one. The institute runs a handful of programmes for young people in Slovenia, all of them free and all of them run by volunteers from the community. Pick one and see what it’s like.
Newest project
A career accelerator for the top 1%. Prove you belong and earn a paid career opportunity at a partner company across Europe and North America, at no cost to you.
Ages 18 to 30 ✦ 30 partner companies ✦ €0
Explore Shapers Academy →
Five days, one idea
A free five-day entrepreneurship camp. Arrive with a rough idea, pitch a real one to a jury by day five.
5 days ✦ 24 participants ✦ 0 €
Explore the summer school →
Pick a side
Moderated debates on the questions young people actually argue about. Two sides of the room, one minute per point, no experts required.
Since 2024 ✦ Impact Hub Ljubljana ✦ Free
Explore Shape Talks →
Skills school skipped
Founders, journalists and executives on stage at Impact Hub, and time to talk to them afterwards.
Since 2024 ✦ Impact Hub Ljubljana ✦ Free
See upcoming events →
In classrooms
We come to secondary schools with Od koncepta do produkta, an interactive workshop. Three schools so far.
3 schools ✦ Ljubljana and Kranj ✦ Free
See the school visits →Coming soon
Direct access to experienced professionals for members of the community. We’re building it now.
03 — Next event
18:00 to 19:30 Impact Hub Ljubljana, Slovenska cesta 56
A conversation with Sebastjan Selan, who spent a decade in Slovenia’s intelligence and security agency and became the youngest director in SOVA’s history at 36. He later led Marina Portorož and held executive roles at Terme Čatež and Delo Prodaja, and today builds floating homes. Moderated by Nejc Krevs.
Reserve your seat →04 — Who we are
We are a team of volunteers with mixed backgrounds, from founders and specialists to artists and researchers, held together by the wish to change something in our own community. Shapers Core runs the institute day to day. Shapers Impact runs the projects. Shapers GO is where new members start. Everyone here began by showing up at an event.
The people who run the institute: strategy, partners, money, and making sure every project has what it needs.
Full members who lead and run the programmes: the summer school, Shape Talks, events, and whatever gets started next.
Shapers GO is the way into the institute: a six-month trial period for new members. Ages 18 to 30, in or around Ljubljana, willing to show up. No particular background needed.
Would rather write first? Send us a line at info@globalshapers.si and tell us what you would like to work on.
Archive
Past editions, past talks, past events, newest first.
Come to the next event, or go straight to Shapers GO.
