CO-CREATING WELL-BEING FOR OUR LEARNING COMMUNITY

“My wellbeing is contained in the wellbeing of others” - M.K. Gandhi

What is the YSI Conference

It is a space to celebrate IDEA’s of young people, who open possibilities to co-create wellbeing for their learning community, while at campus. Thereby enabling young as Youth Social Innovators.

The conference is  organized by youth who use democratic processes to co-create an informal learning space, to share Ideas & learn from each other. The teachers support them as YSI- Facilitators.   

It brings together students & teachers from all learning spaces, to explore, inquire, tackle the SRUSHTI IDEA Challenge & co-create new possibilities. 

Its a platform to nurture young leaders of tomorrow as Creative-Caring-Confident, who can co-create a better world together. 

YSI conference  provides a project Srushti IDEA Challenge ( 4 week project ) and a platform YSI conference to share innovative solutions to issues concerning young people , their peers and the learning community. 

The unique feature of the YSI conference,  is the paper presentation is more like an action research project. 

Srushti Idea Challenge, is a fun and exciting DO & LEARN, activity, which provides projects and platform, for young people to engage, in issues concerning them, both in campus & outside, while helping them find innovative solutions, to resolve them.  

Goal of the YSI conference

It aims to build them as nation builders by helping them design and implement small projects. In this process they in fact, address many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) or the Global Goals, adopted by the United Nations in 2015.

YSI - Preconference workshops on Co-creation

The unique feature of the YSI conference, is the Pre-conference where all participants are facilitated with the co-creation workshop, to evolve their innovative project which they can implement in their context, before they can present their reflective practice paper at the conference.

Genesis of the YSI conference

Started in 2018, in reaction to an internal problem of a mobile theft that happened within the college, which disturbed the whole learning community, in spite of having introduced that year the honor code of being committed to honesty & integrity . It also coincided with Gandhiji’s Birth anniversary of 150 years, whose Ideas are synonymous with Satya or truth. Our theme for the first year was Honesty - connecting with self, based on which, we designed an IDEA challenge. Of course, this was a difficult to get a buy in with students or faculties from different colleges.

Since then we are seeing a small but a steady increase in the participants, since we first started the conference

In 2018-19 - where we had 25 students from 8 colleges participated.

2019-20 – 49 students from 12 colleges participate & 12 teachers from diverse teaching background

2020-21  - 52 participants from 19 different colleges. 

111 participants had registered for the conference, we had active participants across India. We were happy to see students, faculty members and others participate in this conference amidst this crucial hour of covid-19.

Why should you attend?

• Join us in recognizing the efforts of the winners of Srushti YSI Idea Challenge -2018

• Panel discussion on the power of Youth Social Innovation

• Attend a Workshop on ‘The right mindset for co-creating’

• Launching the Srushti Idea Challenge -2019

• Inaugurating Srushti Rasaa, a co-creation space of Srushti Degree College.

This event is open to college students, teachers, faculty, management, from schools and colleges, parents and community members who want to nurture youth as social innovators.

Venue: Srushti Degree College, 92, Karthik Nagar, Outer Ring Road, Bangalore

Date & Timing: 23rd February, 2019, 8.30 am to 3 pm

Register to Attend: srushtidegreecollege@gmail.com to confirm participation