- Bitget partners with UNICEF to scale its Blockchain4Youth initiative aimed at educating global youth on Web3 and blockchain skills.
- Over 8,000 learners in 70+ countries have already participated through hackathons, workshops, and certified online courses.
- UNICEF to help expand outreach in underserved regions and enhance academic rigor through pilot programs launching later this year.
Bitget, the global cryptocurrency exchange, has announced a strategic partnership with UNICEF aimed at broadening blockchain education and fostering digital empowerment among youth worldwide. Central to this partnership is the expansion of Bitget’s established Blockchain4Youth initiative, designed to equip young people with essential Web3 skills and to inspire innovation across emerging technologies.
Originally started in May 2023 with a five-year commitment of $10 million, Blockchain4Youth has already made major achievements. By mid‑2024, the program had included more than 6,000 attendees through 54 campus workshops and lectures throughout Asia, the Middle East, Oceania, Europe, and South America, awarding over 2,000 course completion certificates. In its second year (May 2025), the program hit new records, onboarded more than 8,000 people worldwide and awarded 3,000 certificates, and branched out organically into over 70 nations through hackathons, learning events, and online courses.
With the UNICEF partnership, Blockchain4Youth will have upgraded resources, support, and outreach assistance from one of the globe's leading children's charities. UNICEF's support is designed to strengthen the program's academic intensity, especially in structuring curriculum modules created by Bitget Academy now complemented with blockchain basics, decentralized applications, smart contracts, NFTs, DeFi, and trading derivatives.
This partnership will take education to even more places, especially where digital infrastructure and access are still low. UNICEF's global reach will enable the curriculum to penetrate in communities that are underserved and integrate practical, hands-on learning such as campus hackathons for under-30 developers, scholarship funding, and certified online courses into local education systems.
Bitget's collaboration with top universities has already laid a solid ground, with partnerships at universities such as MIT, UCL, National Taiwan University, and more. With the entry of UNICEF, the program will now acquire enhanced credibility and order, allowing more chances for the world's youth to learn fluent blockchain concepts and dApp innovation.
Bitget and UNICEF will roll out pilot learning campaigns later this year, blending UNICEF's on-the-ground know-how with Bitget's technical course design. Together, they seek to build a generation of digitally savvy, socially conscious blockchain developers and enthusiasts able to harness decentralized technologies to solve issues in education, finance, and governance.
As the revolution of blockchain evolves, the collaboration is a testament to a strong synergy between private technology companies and global development organizations coming together with business, education, and social good to equip youth to define the decentralized future.
