Suncheon National University Holds Award Ceremony for Outstanding Youth Policy Development Teams

[Suncheon=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Hyung-kwon] Suncheon National University (President Ko Young-jin) announced on the 21st that it held an awards ceremony for three outstanding activity teams of the ‘2021 Academic Year Youth Policy Discovery for Creating a Happy Local Community’ project at the university headquarters.

As part of the National University Promotion Project, the ‘Youth Policy Discovery’ project, conducted for the third time this year, is a project where local youths aged 19 to 29 directly discover and plan policies to create a better local community and pilot them. It was promoted to discover the unique ideas of young people for the win-win growth of the region and the university.

A total of 25 proposals were submitted for this year’s contest, and 11 teams selected through an internal evaluation committee worked as the ‘Youth Policy Discovery Group’ for six months from June to November.

With the conclusion of activities on the 31st of last month, Suncheon National University selected three teams as outstanding activity teams through a final evaluation by the evaluation committee, including officials from Suncheon City.

Suncheon National University selected three teams as outstanding activity cases: ▶Grand Prize (Jigojisun Team) ‘Designating parking zones for electric kickboards on campus and promoting revised electric kickboard legislation’ ▶Excellence Award (Odoltodol Team) ‘Producing Braille menus for restaurants to improve social adaptation and self-efficacy of the visually impaired’ ▶Merit Award (Ssarimamu Team) ‘Green Garden Challenge using disposable products’, and presented certificates and prize money to each team at the awards ceremony held on the 21st.

An external evaluation committee member from Suncheon City said, “The winning teams properly pointed out the actual conditions and issues related to the theme and showed enthusiasm by actively collaborating with electric kickboard companies, the Suncheon Association for the Visually Impaired, local governments, and others to propose practical solutions.” He added, “In particular, the Ssarimamu Team, which won the Merit Award, impressively expanded their activities compared to last year by participating in the ‘Suncheon City Policy Market Contest’ to reflect their proposed ideas in policy and winning the silver prize.”

Ko Young-jin, president of Suncheon National University, who presented the awards, encouraged the winners, saying, “I hope the valuable experiences and careers gained through this youth policy discovery activity become the driving force for what you want to do in the future, and furthermore, serve as an opportunity to pay more attention to our university and region and grow into people who contribute to the local community.”

Lee Seung-ji, representative student of the Jigojisun Team, which won the grand prize (Department of History, Suncheon National University), said, “I am glad to have directly participated in the development of the local community through this activity, and I feel proud especially seeing the measures we proposed being properly utilized.” He added, “Since experiencing practical work such as planning, promotion, and implementation greatly helps in building career skills for job preparation, I strongly recommend young people preparing for employment to participate in various activities including the ‘Youth Policy Discovery’ project.”

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