CUHK graduate students are invited to participate in the 3rd Youth Innovation Competition on Global Governance research competition programme (YICGG), co-organized by Fudan University, the United Nations Development Program, Rome Tor Vergata University, Politecnico di Torino, CEEUN-Transition World Research Network and the Ilia Chavchavadze State University.

The theme this year is Global Governance and Innovation 2020: Challenge for One Economy, One Environment, One Finance, One Security, Many Cultures. The competition will be held in the Ilia Chavchavadze State University in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi from July 12 to 19, 2009. It expects to draw students from more than 30 countries to share their innovation on global governance.

WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN?

The competition offers an excellent opportunity for students to make their voice heard and present new ideas, receive face-to face guidance from world top-ranked scholars in the global governance field, meet youth elites from all over the world and build their own social network. In addition, a visiting tour to Georgia and the most attractive historical places in the world will help you experiencing the main dynamic, vital, integrated and open European common space and its strong ties and partnership with Asia.

WHO IS ELIGIBLE?

• Master and PhD students of all disciplines
• Faculty members may participate as a supervisor and reviewer of the student research projects

WHAT TO DO?

Participants will design a project on one global governance issue relevant to the theme this year. The project should be based on the analysis of the status quo of the issue in question and give an outlook, and should put forward fresh ideas and concepts, or create a practical model of governance. Participants may work out a project solo or in a group. There are no specific limitations or requirements for the research team. Thus, the students are free to decide how they want to form the teams.

Below is a list of fields that the participants may work on:

1. Governance within a framework of national and multilateral reforms in the productive private and public structures as well as in the institutional decision making processes
2. Global economy, financial, innovative growth, development in front of shocks, negative cycles through new concepts and policies to face them
3. Environment, climate warming, alternative energy, water management, food and young generation friendly policies against poverty and underdevelopment
4. Innovation, high technology sectors, higher education, Life Long Learning and human capital
5. Culture, heritage, personal values and individual scope as intellectual expression of human rights in the common world
6. Public policy and choices in a changing world looking for new architectures of the relations between citizens, states and transnational and regional new governance approaches
7. Security, conflict resolution, international order and enhancement of the multilateral cooperation in the existing worldwide or regional organizations or on a new, more effective and representative institutional level
8. Risk Management in front of the growing interdependent factors of the global governance
9. Arts, history, humanities and all forms of intellectual expressions in the age of higher education and human capital mobility, integration and cosmopolitan access to global life

For the Project Guidelines and Requirements, please click here.

IMPORTANT TIMELINES

May 12, 2009—Application Deadline for Participation
Participants are required to submit the following via email to yicgg2009@iliauni.edu.ge and Cc yicgg2009@uniroma2.it, yicgg@fudan.edu.cn, and ceeun@ceeun.org by May 12, 2009.

1. A short 30 lines abstract of proposed project (needs to be signed off by a faculty member/supervisor)
2. CVs and self portrait pictures (JPG format no less than 150 dpi)

May 20, 2009
Selected students for the YICGG 2009 will receive a confirmation letter by May 20, 2009.

June 30, 2009
By June 30, a first draft must be sent by the different teams/individuals to the Scientific and Judging Commission designated by the four partner universities via website or email.

July 12-July 18, 2009 in Tblisi
From July 13 to July 14 all the participants will attend the seminars on the same issues and topics of their proposed researches at the Ilia Chavchavadze State University Tbilisi. Participants will be working with the supervising Faculty and the members of Scientific Judging Committee, in order to review their drafts and prepare the definitive version of their work for a public panel session presentation on July 16 morning.

Awards to the best papers or projects will be assigned at the Official Conclusion Ceremony of the YICGG 2009 on July 17.

COST

• Local accommodation, full catering, shuttle from and to the airport, plus the cultural program during the days of the YICGG 2009 will be covered by the Ilia Chavchavadze State University.
• All participants will be responsible for the airfare costs.

FURTHER INFORMATION AND INQUIRIES

For general inquiries please contact Miss. Yvonne Heung, Office of Academic Links, at yvonneheung@cuhk.edu.hk or 3163-4371.

If you have specific questions pertaining to the competition please email yicgg2009@iliauni.edu.ge, yicgg@uniroma2.it or yicgg@fudan.edu.cn.