School Transformative Leadership (STL)

Presents

Youth Alternatives- “Care for our Common Home – 2017” Competition

1. International Movement of Catholic Students – Asia Pacific

International Movement of Catholic Students – Pax Romana is a Catholic faith based movement that works with university and tertiary education students across the world. Founded in 1921, under the name Pax-Romana, in order to promote peace at a global level and then established the Asia Pacific coordination in 1954. IMCS promotes the holistic formation of students by involving them in social action, representation and community building. It links together over 80 national federations of university students. In the Asia Pacific region, under 4 sub regions (South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia and Pacific) there are 10 member national organizations and 6 contact groups.

As a movement, we believe in ‘investing’ in students as ‘social capital.’ The holistic formation of students contributes in the long term construction of civil society. As a Catholic faith based movement IMCS is not ‘literalist’ or fundamentalist. It promotes peace building, social cohesion and respectful interreligious dialogue.

2. The School of Transformative Leadership (STL)

The School of Transformative Leadership (STL) aims at creating an Asia Pacific pool of Young Leaders committed to the transformation of global society in the aspects of political, economical and socio-cultural. STL is designed in 4 parts to reach to above said goal (Research, Social Immersion, Skill building & Application of learning).

3. About “Youth Alternatives – Care for our Common Home 2017”. Competition

One of the biggest challenges of our times is that there is a huge deficit of Critical Thinking and Emotional Intelligence in skillful analyzing, assessing and reconstructing the thinking process together with personal and social competence.  IMCS Asia Pacific has been committed to address this creatively through the School of Transformative Leadership (STL) and has decided to conduct the “Youth Alternatives” competition under STL annually. As a concrete step, STL proudly presents, “Youth Alternatives – Care for our Common Home 2017” competition.

 This competition is enabling an environment for the young people to be creative, to express,  to give the ability to relate well, to lead with empathy and to have effective communication and problem-solving abilities, as well a commitment to overcome our native egocentrism and socio-ecocentrism.

With this, the competition is in a way is to break the culture which have been normalised by a continuation of ignorance and silence in the society and create a voice against inequality, discrimination, marginalization, exploitation of environment and people which is done systematically by some sectors of the society to any particular communities or environment.

This is an Asia Pacific Competition for tertiary students daring them to critically think on Climate Change and express creatively. Global climate change has already had observable effects on the environment. Almost in every natural disaster it has been evident that climate change is real and can no longer be denied. And with the recent Encyclical of Pope Francis, Laudato si. This document also talks very much of the Sustainable Development Goal and with all other recent development in  United Nation on Climate Change,  IMCS have taken up Climate Change as thematic area to work on for three years. IMCS AP recently conducted Study session under the theme of “Laudato si in Action: Addressing Ecological Crisis in Asia Pacific – Capacity building of Asia Pacific Students to be critical and analytical educators and advocates of Environmental Justice”. And as a follow-up activity, to engage the students to apply their learnings, analysis and reflection further to take up actions as a educators and advocates in concrete manner in their own locality.

4. Details of the competition:

* Multi-Lingual (In your Local Language with English Translation)

You may choose any of the topics presented by using any of this medium/segment below. For each topic you can only use one medium.

5. Prize: (3 winners in each segment irrespective of the language)

• The winners under each competition shall receive a certificate from IMCS Asia Pacific – School of Transformative Leadership (STL) and winning segments will be exhibited in IMCS website and in publications.
• Winners will get fully sponsored (travel, accommodation…etc) invitations to participate in the IMCS AP – SLT Immersion and Training programme to be held in The Philippines in January 2018.

6. Terms:

• Entry is free
• One person can apply only for a one category.
• All events are solo and multi-lingual (with duly translated English script of your work)
• The competition is open to IMCS members between age 17 to 30 only.
• Each National Movement/Contact Group can send up to 10 entries for a one category. (Will be taken into consideration under 1st sent 1st taken basis.)
• Content should be Critical, Non-Religious, Non-Romanticized, Non-Abusive.
• All events will be judged on Originality, Content, Theme & Creative presentation.
• Results will be announced on 10th October 2017.
• Each entry must be original in concept, design, and execution and may not violate any copyright laws; off topic discussions shall be disqualified and strictly no plagiarism is allowed.
• IMCS AP – SLT shall use the content once submitted
• Entrants will be deemed to have accepted these rules and to agree to be bound by them when entering the competitions.

7. Segment Guidelines:

8. Submission Form

Submissions up to August 26, 2017

 Send your Submissions to: imcsap.stl@gmail.com

 For more Information: Email: paxromanaimcsap@gmail.com

• Pre-requirement before taking part in the competition.
  • Please go through the concept note of the APC program
  • Please go through Laudato si (summary) http://www.stfrancisraleigh.org/pope-francis-laudato-si-summaries/

Other reference: http://iefworld.org/ddahl15d

• Please go through Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) topics: http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics
  • SDG weblink: http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdgs

To download this competition details and form, please click this School of Transformative Leadership-Youth Alternatives 2017-final5 july17