27-29 July 2021Virtual Event
Asia-Pacific Cooperative Youth Summit 3.0
Celebrating Youth as Torchbearers of the Cooperative Identity
Register Now
27-29 July 2021Virtual Event
Asia-Pacific Cooperative Youth Summit 3.0
Celebrating Youth as Torchbearers of the Cooperative Identity
Register Now
27-29 July 2021Virtual Event
Asia-Pacific Cooperative Youth Summit 3.0
Celebrating Youth as Torchbearers of the Cooperative Identity
Register Now
27-29 July 2021Virtual Event
Asia-Pacific Cooperative Youth Summit 3.0
Celebrating Youth as Torchbearers of the Cooperative Identity
Register Now

“Young people are not the future of the movement. They must be the present, because the urgent
problems of today mean the future of our movement and our civilisation is at stake.”

-President Ariel Guarco, International Cooperative Alliance (ICA)

About APCYS 3.0

ICA-AP in collaboration with the ICA-EU Partnership, the ICA-AP Committee on Youth Cooperation (ICYC), and the ICA Domus Trust is organising a virtual Asia Pacific Cooperative Youth Summit 3.0 (APCYS 3.0) to “Celebrate Youth as Torchbearers of the Cooperative Identity.

APCYS 3.0 will provide a platform to discuss the merits of the values-based cooperative model, know each other’s experiences in cooperative entrepreneurship, hear innovative Coop Pitch, and inculcate a culture of youth cooperativism. 

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Coop Pitch Competition

Cooperative (or Coop) Pitch Competition is integral part of the Asia Pacific Cooperative Youth Summit (APCYS). It is designed to find new and sustainable enterprise ideas on cooperatives. Participants get the opportunity to pitch cooperative business solutions to cater to the needs and aspirations of the youth and community in their country.

Coop Pitch competition will begin on 23 July. The shortlisted teams will participate in the orientation and mentorship sessions to develop their cooperative pitches. All teams will submit their final pitches on 27 July to qualify for the finals. The selected finalists will make a live pitch to a panel of judges on 29 July.

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Prizes for Coop Pitch Winners

 

The top 3 winning teams will receive prize money of USD 3,000 (1st – USD 1,500; 2nd – USD 1,000; 3rd – USD 500), organizational support and direct access to key partners to further develop, validate and implement coop models developed.

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1st prize

USD 1,500

2nd prize
USD 1,000
3rd prize
USD 500

Sponsors

Judges

H.P. Rathod

H.P. Rathod

H.P. Rathod heads the Cooperative Services & Administration and is responsible for Cooperative Development and Human Resource Management for GCMMF (Amul). With over 28 years of experience in the field, he has implemented various cooperative development programmes and activities, internal consultant development initiatives, animal husbandry and rural development programmes. He is also serving as Director in designated member unions of GCMMF.

H.P. Rathod
Cooperative Services & Administration, AMUL
Rohan Clarke

Rohan Clarke

Rohan blends a career in investment banking with an ambition to promote community wealth building through cooperatives. As Co-Founder of Incubator.coop, Rohan has run accelerator and incubator programmes with a range of aspiring cooperatives and platforms. He also has hands on experience in building innovative cooperatives and is leading the development of two cooperative platforms in Australia - the Regen Farmer Mutual that enables farmers to access environmental markets, and Wayfairer - a regenerative tourism platform that shares revenue with local communities.

Rohan Clarke
Co-Founder, Incubator.coop & Director, Wayfairer.coop
Salonie Muralidhara Hiriyur

Salonie Muralidhara Hiriyur

Salonie works as a Senior Coordinator at SEWA Cooperative Federation, where she works closely with women-owned cooperatives, across sectors, to enable their viability and sustainability. Her areas of work include research, communications, capacity-building, fundraising, and advocacy. In the past, she has worked in the research department of the International Labor Organisation, Geneva. She graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science with a degree in Gender and Development

Salonie Muralidhara Hiriyur
Senior Coordinator, SEWA Cooperative Federation

Program Schedule

10:00 am - 11:00 am
Opening Ceremony
60 minutes
Name of Session

Welcome and Introduction - 5 minutes

Opening Address - 10 minutes

Keynote Address - 10 minutes

Message from ICA-AP Committee on Youth Network (ICYC) - 5 minutes

Message from Global Youth Network (GYN) - 5 minutes

Messages from Mentors focused on Coop Pitch (3) - 5*3 = 15 minutes

11:00 am - 11:30 am
Orientation & Housekeeping
30 minutes
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Networking Session
60 minutes
12:30 pm - 01:30 pm
Break
60 minutes
01:30 pm - 03:00 pm
Youth Engagement in Asia and Pacific - ICA-AP Committees and Initiatives
90 minutes
Name of Session

Introduction of ICYC - 15 minutes

Introduction of ICA-AP Committee on Cooperatives in Educational Institutions - 15 minutes

Introduction of ICA-AP Committee on Research - 15 minutes

Youth Related Initiatives - GCE, Coopathon, Replication Project, Coop Pitch - 15 minutes

Breakout Rooms - 30 minutes

03:15 pm - 04:45 pm
Spotlight on Coop Youth Entrepreneurs
90 minutes
Name of Session

CamSur Multi Purpose Cooperative, Philippines (Agriculture)

Urban Origins, Singapore (Food Security)

Minsnail Housing Cooperative, South Korea (Community Housing for Youth)

My Cool Class, Poland (Platform Coop owned by Teachers)

Innocircle Initiative, Indonesia (Incubator)

Karunachal Foundation, India (Environment Consciousness

10:00 am - 10:45 am
Get Inspired! A Talk by Youth Leader
45 minutes
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Cooperative Identity: A Competitive Advantage for Your Cooperative (60 minutes)
90 minutes
Name of Session

Cooprative Identity, Coop Marque

Dot coop Domain

Tools for Digital Empowerment of Coops

12:00 pm - 02:00 pm
Student Cooperative Clubs in Asia and Pacific - Precursor to Community Leadership
90 minutes
Name of Session

Student Committee, National Federation of University Cooperatives Association, Japan (10 minutes)

Batu Pahat MARA Junior Science College Coop Ltd., Malaysia (10 minutes)

University Coop, Madurai College Mangalore, India (10 minutes)

Break Out Group Activity (90 minutes)

02:00 pm - 02:30 pm
Break
60 minutes
02:30 pm - 03:30 pm
ATW movie screening
60 minutes
Name of Session

Around the World Film Screening - Bhabishya Nirman Sana Kishan, Nepal - 20 minutes

Message from Film Protagonists - 10 minutes

Message from ATW team on fim making experience - 10 minutes

Q&A - 15-20 minutes

03:30 pm - 04:00 pm
Networking Session
30 minutes
04:00 pm - 06:00 pm
The Cultural Show
120 minutes
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Panel discussion on enabling environment for youth in coops?
120 minutes
Name of Session

Innovation & Incubation (15 min)

Funding/ Finance (15 min)

Legal and Policy Framework (15 min)

Government Perspectives & Initiatives (15 min)

Mentoring & Education (15 min)

Coops as a people's movement (Bottom's up Approach) (15 min)

11:45 am - 12:00 pm
Coop Pitch Finalists Announcement
15 minutes
12:00 pm - 01:00 pm
Break
60 minutes
01:00 pm - 02:30 pm
Coop Pitch - Live Pitch by finalists
90 minutes
Name of Session

Pitch by Top 7 teams

02:30 pm - 03:00 pm
Summarising Session
30 minutes
03:00 pm - 04:30 pm
Closing Ceremony
90 minutes
Name of Session

Welcome - 5 minutes

Keynote Address - 10 minutes

Remarks by Judges + Announcement of Coop Pitch Winners - 20 minutes

Winning Speech by 3 winners - 15 minutes

Experience sharing by participants & speakers - 15 minutes

Valedictory Address - 10 minutes

APCYS 3.0 Programme Schedule

Thank you for your interest in APCYS 3.0. The registrations are now closed. You can still attend the live summit at the ICA-AP Youtube Channel.

People

Zahra Al-Hilaly

Zahra Al-Hilaly

Zahra represents Australia on the UN Women Generation Equality Task Force and works with the Department of Foreign Affairs in France and Mexico to deliver the Generation Equality Forum. Zahra is 21-year-old first generation Australian from Palestine and Iraq, and advocates policy issues on gender equality, equitable representation of migrant and refugee youth within decision making, and refugee rights on local, national, and international levels. She sits on the YWCA Australia Young Women’s Council, is a MYAN Australia National Ambassador, and represents Western Australia Government as the state ambassador for young people. She studies Law and Journalism at the Murdoch University and recognises the fundamental need to ensure that young people, across all intersectional diversities, are centred at the core of decision-making processes. For her work, she was recognised as a finalist for Young Australian Muslim of the Year, 25 Young Women to Watch in International Affairs, and was selected as a global candidate for the World YWCA Global Women’s Leadership Cohort.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER Zahra Al-Hilaly
Australian Representative to UN Women's Generation Equality Youth Task Force
John Hayes

John Hayes

John is a California native now residing in Warsaw, Poland. He is an English teacher, avid traveler, punk musician, and anti-racist activist. John is new in the cooperative movement and wants to help inspire the average working-class person to organize and own their workplace. MyCoolClass is a teacher-owned platform cooperative based in London, UK with international directorship and membership of teachers, tutors, and other educators from all over the world.

APCYS 3.0 SPEAKER John Hayes
Creator & Co-Founder, MyCoolClass
Deepak Ramola

Deepak Ramola

Deepak is the Founder and Artistic Director of Project FUEL. A two-time TED Talk speaker & UN Action Plan Executor, he serves as the Kindness Ambassador for UNESCO MGIEP. Forwarding the understanding of life lessons of the women of the Maasai tribe to young girls in Afghanistan and to sex workers of Kamathipura, learnings from earthquake survivors in Nepal to Syrian refugees in Europe, Deepak is a new age storyteller and artist. He and his team of artists have painted the world's first village of life lessons. Deepak's methodology has been recognized as the world's top 100 innovations in education by the Finland-based organization HundrED and has also been adopted by the Education Board of Antwerp in Belgium, Nepal, and Pittsburgh, USA. A celebrated lyricist in Hindi Cinema, his songs have been voiced by Amitabh Bachchan, Farhan Akhtar, Rekha Bhardwaj amongst others. His first collection of Hindi poetry titled Itna Toh Main Samajh Gaya Hoon received the prestigious Young Writer Award in 2020 at Jaipur Literature Festival. His latest book, 50 Toughest Questions of Life, has gone into a reprint two weeks after its release. Read more about him at deepakramola.com.

APCYS 3.0 SPEAKER Deepak Ramola
Founder and Artistic Director of Project FUEL
Navitha Varsha

Navitha Varsha

Navitha is the Co-founder of Karunachal Foundation and Founder of Wetransform. She identifies herself as a free-spirited green entrepreneur, yoga practitioner & trek leader who believes that the most important thing in life is ‘Environment’ which she defines as internal (mind, body, spirit) and external (community). At Karunachal Foundation, she works with youth to make them environmentally conscious citizens. Being a strong advocate of living in harmony with nature and self, she believes that future global citizens owe it to themselves to live more conscious and responsible lives.

Navitha Varsha
Co-founder of Karunachal Foundation and Founder of Wetransform.
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Organizers

About ICA AP

About ICA AP

The ICA is an independent, non-governmental organisation established in 1895 to unite, represent and serve cooperatives worldwide. It provides a global voice and forum for knowledge, expertise and coordinated action for and about cooperatives. Its members are international and national cooperative organisations from all sectors of the economy, including agriculture, banking, consumer, fisheries, health, housing, insurance, and industry & services. It helps members develop business relationships and partnerships with members as well as convenes cooperative knowledge, information and guidance through capacity building programmes, technical exchange, and increasing access to cooperatives related information. The ICA Asia and Pacific (ICA-AP) was established in 1960 in New Delhi as the first regional office of ICA. The ICA-AP serves 111 organizations from 31 countries (as of May 2021) in the Asia and Pacific region.

#coops4dev

#coops4dev

In March 2016, the ICA entered a partnership with the European Commission, ushering in a new phase of collaboration on strengthening the cooperative movement as development actors. The ICA-EU partnership is built around activities focused on increasing visibility, enhancing advocacy, sharing capacity building, strengthening cooperative development networking, and supporting all these with evidence from exhaustive research.

About ICYC

About ICYC

ICA-AP Committee on Youth Cooperation (ICYC) was formed in 2006 after the approval of the constitution by the Regional Assembly. ICYC strives to strengthen and encourage better co-operation amongst youth and help them learn participatory democracy. It advocates for youth representation at various levels of cooperative management.

About ICA Domus Trust

About ICA Domus Trust

The ICA Domus Trust was established in the memory of former and late ICA President Dr. Mauritz Bonow (1962-1975) in 1998. It has its registered office in New Delhi, India. It supports the goals of the global cooperative movement and operates in line with cooperative principles and values, particularly for the uplifting of the weaker sections of society. Since 2016, the ICA Domus Trust along with ICA-AP bestows The Dr. Mauritz Bonow Young Researchers Award to encourage cooperative research among young scholars, every year at the ICA-AP Research Conference.

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