IIT Guwahati to host first Youth20 Group Meet 2023 from 6th to 8th Feb

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati is hosting the first Youth20 (Y20) Group Meet 2023 from 6th to 8th February 2023. 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 being 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.”

Further Prof. Iyer said, “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."

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 –

      I.        Future of Work: Industry 4.0, Innovation & 21st Century skills,

     II.        Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction: Making Sustainability a way of life

    III.        Peacebuilding and Reconciliation: Ushering in an era of No War

  IV.        Shared Future: Youth in Democracy

    V.        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.

About India as G20 President-nation

G20 Summit is held annually under a rotating presidency, which currently rests with India for 2023. As the President-nation, India will host the 18th G20 Heads of State and Government Summit in December 2023 in New Delhi. The summit will bring an end to a series of meetings over the course of the year. Apart from hosting the summit and setting the theme, India plans on showcasing its philosophies of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (one earth, one family, one future), and LiFE (Lifestyle for Environment) through the theme and the logo of the event.

ABOUT IIT GUWAHATI

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati established in 1994 has completed 25 years of glorious existence in 2019. At present, the Institute has eleven departments, seven inter-disciplinary academic centres and five schools covering all the major engineering, science, healthcare, management and humanities disciplines, offering BTech, BDes, MA, MDes, MTech, MSc, and PhD programmes. The institute offers a residential campus to 435 faculty members and more than 7,000 students at present.

IIT Guwahati has retained the 7th position among the best engineering institutions of the country and 8th position in ‘Overall’ Category in the ‘India Rankings 2022’ declared by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) of the Union Ministry of Education.

IIT Guwahati is the only academic institution in India that occupied a place among the top 100 world universities – under 50 years of age – ranked by London-based Times Higher Education (THE) in 2014 and continues to maintain its superior position even today in various International Rankings. IIT Guwahati gained rank 37 globally in the ‘Research Citations per Faculty’ category and overall 384 rank in the QS World University Rankings 2023 released recently.

Among other frontier areas of research and innovation, IIT Guwahati is working towards augmenting critical science research initiatives in Genomics, Developmental Biology, Health Care and Bioinformatics and Flexible Electronics, among numerous other areas.