Guwahati: The first meeting of the Youth20 (Y20) group, being organised on the sidelines of the G20 summit, will be held in Guwahati from February 6 to 8, an official statement said on Sunday. 

This is the first of many meetings that will be held on the five Y20 themes throughout India in the months leading up to the final Youth20 Summit in August 2023. "The three-day conference in Assam is expected to draw more than 250 people from around the globe.

The five topics will be  Future of Work; Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction; Peace Building and Reconciliation; Youth in Democracy and Health, Wellbeing and Sports." 

 One of the eight official interaction groups operating under the G20's auspices is Y20.  The youth summit often takes place some weeks prior to the traditional forum to know what the youths are thinking and incorporate their suggestions in their own policy proposals. 

According to the statement, the Y20 India Summit in 2023 would serve as an example of the nation's youth-focused initiatives and give it a chance to present its values and policy initiatives to young people throughout the world. From January 19 onward, more than 50 universities and colleges from every district in the state are hosting seminars, workshops, debates, and panel discussions on their campuses in an effort to foster a participatory and inclusive deliberation process leading up to the Y20 gathering.

Each higher education institution will also host an awareness drive at 10 neighbouring schools to inform the pupils on G20 groupings and functioning. More than 12,000 students are scheduled to attend these events. 400 participants, including prize winners from other university and college contests, will take part in the main event at IIT-Guwahati on February 7 and will receive the appropriate mentoring for understanding innovations and industry-academia links, the statement said. They will also get an opportunity to interact with the international youth delegates to exchange ideas for a shared future," it added.

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