CIFAL Jeju / JITC organizes a number of programs including international youth workshops, forums, and Global Citizenship Education (GCED) to invite Korean foreign students alike to understand the commonality of the global issues and to become active promoters of more peaceful, tolerant, inclusive, secure, and sustainable societies.
Jeju International Future Generation Forum
The Forum aims to foster youth global leadership by promoting actionable engagement in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals. Participating young leaders take the in-depth discussion on up-to-date issues such as youth employment, education development and health and well-being. The youth are given unique opportunities not only to build collective minds but also to vitalize city diplomacy by building a hub of social networking through cultural exchange.
Jeju International Youth Forum
CIFAL Jeju organized Jeju International Youth Forum from 2016 to 2021 with the aim to promote Jeju to the world and to connect talented teenage youth across the globe. The event was conducted with a focus on strengthening the leadership skills of the talented young people, exchanging different perspectives on critical global issues and enhancing the cultural understanding of each other.
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2022 Jeju International Future generation Forum
On 11 December 2022, the 1st Jeju International Future Generation Forum(hereinafter “JIFF”) is held in Jeju, Republic of Korea and live-streamed globally, hosted by Jeju Special Self-governing Province Office and co-organized by United Nations Institute for Training And Research(UNITAR) CIFAL Jeju.
The Jeju
International Future generation Forum was attended by 337 participants around
the globe: 56 participants in-person in Jeju and over 281 participants overseas
who joined in virtually. Among them, 77 talented young leaders produced policy
proposals for Sustainable Development Goals in four major areas on education,
health and wellbeing, employment, and environment. Their outcomes are highly
recognized as a proactive youth engagement in creating positive impact on their
local communities.
Under the grand theme ‘Youth and Better Normal:
Participation of Young Leaders for Our Common Future’, there are the four
subtopics: ‘ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education’,
‘ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being’, ‘promoting sustained,
inclusive, and sustainable economic growth and productive employment and decent
work for youth’, and ‘sustainably conserving and managing our environment’.
The Youth Leadership Training Program as part of the
Forum runs for 5 weeks. Focusing on youth empowerment to advance Agenda 2030
and the Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs), the young leaders take part in
virtual or in-person sessions from September to October, and the event
culminates with the SDGs Policy contest on Forum Day on 11 December 2022.
The 5-week Leadership Capacity-building Program as a
pre-event was organized to deepen their understanding of the Sustainable
Development Goals(SDGs) with a special focus on 4 subtopics. The program aimed
to strengthen leadership skills, exchange different perspectives on critical
global issues in a policy-oriented aspect. The pre-sessions were composed of
the online and offline learning activities including lectures, discussions,
recreational events which were designed to guide them throughout the course, from
research to forming ideas, to policy proposals at a municipal level.
On the Forum day, youth participants presented policy
proposals and youth empowerment campaign videos on Sustainable Development
Goals(SDGs) Policy Contest, encouraging youth actionable engagement in their
communities. The Forum also provided a venue where youth social entrepreneurs
shared their innovative ideas on youth empowerment and sustainable development
with enhancing the cultural understanding of one another through diverse programs.
This year, UNITAR CIFAL Jeju successfully held the Forum
for the first time with a high number of participants across the world. In this
sense, the event could be highly appraised in fostering bondage and unity among
the youth across the globe and developing their leadership and confidence for a
more sustainable future.
*2022 Jeju International
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