The sprawling campus of Infosys in Mysuru will play host to Unleash Innovation Lab, a global event focussed on building and promoting solutions for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), for eight days with effective from December 3.

This is in keeping with the joint statement Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his counterpart from Denmarkt Mette Frederiksen made in October last year.

The event will see 1000 talented youths from around the world between 18 and 35 years of age, to innovate and design sustainable solutions for the future.

Infosys on Tuesday launched its collaboration with Unleash. The company's chairman Nandan Nilekani said, since inception, Infosys, had been steered by its purpose to amplify human potential and create opportunities for people, business, and communities.

“We are delighted to collaborate with Unleash and host the Global Innovation Lab 2022, a platform that mobilizes youth to co-create a sustainable future. Together, Infosys and Unleash will facilitate the exploration of digital solutions to address UN’s SDGs and create digital solutions to improve education reforms globally,” he said, in a statement.

“Through our Global Innovation Alliance initiative, we have interacted with innovation hubs of the world, and we look forward to contributing and finding innovative solutions in addressing the SDG goals” said EV Ramana Reddy, additional chief secretary, IT/BT department, which has also partnered with the event.

Unleash chairman Prof Flemming Besenbacher said the software giant’s innovative and disruptive technologies and its focus on ESG and education was the perfect environment for an Innovation Lab for the UN’s 2030 Agenda.

Unleash started in Denmark in 2017 and moved to Singapore in 2018 and Shenzhen, China, in 2019. Throughout all programmes, about 500 young people from India joined the Unleash movement, more than any other country. The programme involves hackathons and supports ongoing capacity building and solutions implementation.

Over the past two years, Unleash has introduced a series of new programs, which have expanded its reach, but the annual innovation lab will remain at its core, an official statement said.

Since 2017, the programme has gathered 5,000 talents from 167 countries, developed 800 tangible solutions to the SDGs, partnered with 350 plus organizations across sectors, and been recognized as one of the world’s most influential sustainability brands by Onalytica.

Unleash is working with a host of partners, including Infosys, HCL, Novo Nordisk India, and the Karnataka Government for the success of the upcoming event, the statement added.