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GUWAHATI: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati in Assam will host the first Youth20 (Y20) Group Meet 2023 from February 6 to 8.

The Y20 Summit is a unique opportunity to allow the youth to provide constructive policy inputs and to utilize the platform to voice their opinions for the world audience.

It is one of the eight official engagement groups under the G20 umbrella.

The G20 rotating presidency bears the responsibility of hosting the youth summit, which usually takes place some weeks prior to the traditional forum to know what the youths are thinking and incorporate their suggestions in their own policy proposals.

It is an attempt to create a connecting point between G20 governments and their local youth.

The Youth 20 India Summit will bring together the trustees of our future generations from across the G20 countries to deliberate, discuss, and deduce innovative, sustainable, and actionable solutions, especially in the realm of social development.

Sharing his thoughts on the first Y20 Group Meet to be hosted by IIT Guwahati, Prof Parameswar K Iyer, Officiating Director, IIT-Guwahati, said: “The future of the world rests in the hands of the youth. The Y20 Meet being hosted by IIT Guwahati will give the youth a unique opportunity to share their input on the global platform. The meet will focus on global youth leadership towards a futuristic, prosperous, inclusive, and developed society.”

“IIT Guwahati will showcase its contribution through knowledge and innovation initiatives and advocate for brand Assam and the Northeast Region promotion for enhanced collaboration through this G20 meeting,” Prof Iyer added,

The priority areas of the Y20 Summit point to the urgency with which the world has to reconcile with the reality of the changing times in our quest to survive and thrive.

Themes of the Y20 Summit include- Future of Work: Industry 4.0, Innovation & 21st Century skills, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction: Making Sustainability a way of life, Peacebuilding and Reconciliation: Ushering in an era of No War, Shared Future: Youth in Democracy, Governance and Health, Wellbeing & Sports: Agenda for Youth.

With these, the Y20 Summit’s key focus will be on global youth leadership and partnership.

There will be pre-summits on the five Y20 themes along with various discussions and seminars at different Universities across states in India in a run-up to the final Youth-20 Summit.

Source: https://nenow.in/north-east-news/assam/assam-iit-guwahati-first-y20-meet-february.html

Y20 is one of the eight official engagement groups under the G20 umbrella

The first meeting of the Youth20 (Y20) group, being organised on the sidelines of the G20 summit, will be held in Assam’s largest city Guwahati from February 6 to 8, an official statement said on Sunday.

This is the first of the various meetings to be held on the five Y20 themes across India in a run-up to the final Youth20 Summit in August 2023, it said.

“More than 250 delegates from across the world are expected to participate in the three-day event in Assam. It will focus on five themes of Future of Work; Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction; Peace Building and Reconciliation; Youth in Democracy and Health, Wellbeing and Sports,” the Press Information Bureau (PIB) release said.

Y20 is one of the eight official engagement groups under the G20 umbrella. The youth summit usually takes place some weeks prior to the traditional forum to know what the youths are thinking and incorporate their suggestions in their own policy proposals.

The Y20 India Summit in 2023 would exemplify the country’s youth-centric efforts and provide an opportunity to showcase its values and policy measures to the youth across the globe, the statement said.

In order to create a participative and inclusive deliberation process in the run up to the Y20 meeting, over 50 universities and colleges across all districts of the state are organising seminars, workshops, debates and panel discussions in their campuses from January 19 onwards.

Over 12,000 students are expected to participate in these events and each higher education institution will be also be organising awareness drive at 10 nearby schools to sensitise the schools about G20 groupings and functioning.

A total of 400 participants, including prize winners of competitions from various university/college, will participate in the central event at IIT-Guwahati on February 7 and will be accordingly mentored for understanding Innovations and Industry-Academia linkages, the statement said.

“They will also get an opportunity to interact with the international youth delegates to exchange ideas for a shared future,” it added.

Source: https://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/india-s-g20-presidency-first-y20-meet-in-guwahati-from-february-6-to-8-123012200398_1.html

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