Theme : Power of Youth for Well – Being and Sustainable Development
The 15th Asia Pacific Student Services Association International Conference 2016
Power of youth is the power of the new generation to create sustainable development needed for a better world. Amongst contradictions and fierce competition in the global community, some nations have attempted to thrive by overcoming others using force, warfare or indirect aggression through their economic policies. Individually nations are locally responsible for the spoiling and destruction of their earth’s natural resources including forests, air, water and marine resources. Resultantly these actions are creating an increasing pressure on humanity in its ability to live sustainably and cohesively on this planet and could possibly trigger an unprecedented worldwide political crisis.
Student development aims at leading the world away from a looming crisis by decreasing the existing contradictions and problems while sustainably preserving natural resources for the well – being of all the world’s citizens. The decisive objective for this conference is to support and train a new generation of students for developing refreshing ideas and to engage with energetic enthusiasm in brainstorming solutions for community and environmental development while preserving the world’s natural resources.
Higher Educational Institutions have important roles in designing suitable curriculums and providing quality teaching while fostering student activities that cultivate graduates to embody a strong conscience in world affairs, environmental preservation and a strong desire to live harmoniously in the world. As graduates have a potential to lead the development of the world into a sustainable and peaceful habitation, educational intuitions have an ideal opportunity to strategically shape the world’s future harmoniously through its graduates.
Subtheme description :
1.Youth Power in Environment and Sustainability
Power of youth in inherits the responsibility of looking after the Earth, and take fully into account in the participatory process on environment and development in order to safeguard the future sustainability of any actions taken to improve the environment.
2. Youth Power through Mobility, Networking and Collaboration
With the new mobility culture – a culture which is collaborative, connected, shared and more mindful of its sustainability, the power of young people to use the social networks provide a means of socialisation and innovation.
3. Youth Power in Promoting Sports and Health for Well – Being
Power of youth to make yourselves and other people to be well- being – a state of balancing body, mind and spirit. Wellbeing is strongly linked to happiness and life satisfaction. Using sports as tools for promoting health and well-being of people.
4. Youth Power in Impacting Politics, the Economy and Sustainable Development
Recognition of the importance of freedom, peace and security, respect for all human rights, such a understanding can provide young people with critical insights into the social, cultural and political impacts of the globalising impacts of economic integration and communication technologies – as well as provide them with capacities to assess the costs and benefits in their live in communities and those of people in other parts of the world.