YSI Conference

YSI Conference provides young people with a project - a Srushti Idea Challenge to tackle the issues bothering the learning community at campus and a platform - YSI Conference to express their innovative IDEA’s. Through this process, young people will also explore values of change-makers. This is a yearly conference, organized & co-created by students of participating colleges.

The Vision of YSI is to : co-create a better world, together.

It aims at student flourishing on campus, as they co-create well-being for each other.

For last 3 years, we are exploring Gandhian values of Truth & well-being, attempting to understand and imbibe it. As this also coincides with the 150th birth anniversary of Ganhdiji.

YSI Project is based on the Srushti IDea Challenge. This is a fun and exciting DO & LEARN, activity. Students will be facilitated through a workshop on CO-CREATION - a Human centred design process using Design thinking & arts, where youth will learn to move from IDEA to ACTION. They will learn to empathize, dialog, imagine, collaborate, solve problems & reflect & journal.

YSI- 18 Theme : Connecting with Self

Srushti Idea Challenge -18 : How might we solve a problem arising from dishonesty, and instill honesty in our peers ? First YSI-18 conference, (Youth Social Innovation) was held on 28th February 2018 at Srushti Degree College. 25 students from 5 colleges participated in this conference, sharing stories of how honesty can impact the campus.

YSI 19 -20 Conference Theme : Connecting with the other Based on Gandhian Value : “The best way to find yourself is to loose yourself in the service of others”. The Srushti Idea challenge -19: How might we help each other to find ourselves, in relation to the world around us? This second conference was first explored with teachers as a Teaching-Learning Innovation Conference was conducted on 15th October, 2019 in collaboration with Bangalore North University. 12 teachers from different learning spaces participated and presented papers on connecting with their students while finding something new about themselves. Another Conference for the Young people was held later on 7th March 2020. This year we had the participation of 49 students from 9 institutes.

YSI- 21 Conference Theme: Connecting with the community to co-create

Based on Gandhian values: “My well-being is contained in the wellbeing of others”

Srushti IDEA Challenge : How might we co-create well-being for the learning community as we adapt to Online learning, in the times of COVID Pandemic.

The workshop and conference was held online, which brought in participants from different learning spaces across INDIA. It was held from 24th to 26th July 2021. It was attended by 75 participants from more than 20 diverse institutions. The aim was to see oneself as part of the whole, Interdependence &  co-Creation. It was Srushti’s response to support the learning community in the times of COVID-19 crisis.