World Youth Economic Forum
The 14th ASEEDER World Youth Economic Forum theme:
The Intelligent Revolution: Reshaping the Workforce for a New Era
The WYEF forum focuses on a cutting-edge global economic issue each year and invites outstanding high school students from around the world, as well as representatives from international academic institutions, schools, and business elites, to participate in discussions and debates. It is known as the “The Davos World Economic Forum for High School Students.”
Message from the WYEF committee
Dear delegates,
We stand at a critical point in history where unprecedented events have heralded us to a current moment of crisis. Our ability to respond collectively and with resilience in this present moment will shape and determine the future that is to come.
The challenges that we face today are multi-fold. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a debilitating impact on our economies and societies, as lockdown measures and halting of business activities have led economies to experience dismal growth or to shrink into recession. As we enter an era of post-pandemic recovery, the rapid surge in demand across sectors has triggered supply side shortages, leading, consequently, to inflation in global food and energy prices. Additional factors such as global trade restrictions have further created a cascading effect on the crises that we face.
Globalizing cost-of-living crisis and a rapidly deteriorating climate and related ecosystems to social unrest triggered by lack of economic opportunities. Beyond these ‘old’ threats, we also have new threats that loom on the horizon, such as increasing cybercrime and attacks on tech-enabled critical infrastructure which can weaken the digital security and sovereignty of nations.
Business, finance, and economics leaders now face an increasingly complex global risk landscape in which they need to navigate. To build successful and thriving organizations, leaders must understand the risks that exist and identify patterns and interconnectedness between risks in order to secure a future of continuous growth possibilities.
In this World Youth Economic Forum, we invite you – our future business, finance, and economics leaders – to explore the dynamics of change, to anticipate emerging trends, and to identify solutions that mitigate both pressing challenges of the present and complex challenges of the future that are yet to unfold.
Outstanding teams will not just be able to demonstrate their drive to pursue capital and markets, but to alsopresent a vision and strategic roadmap to chart the path forward for a more prosperous and secure future.
We await to see your brilliance and we believe the best is yet to come.
See you at World Youth Economic Forum 2025!
Analyze global trending topics from multiple perspectives:
Committees of Business, Economics and Finance
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- Team name: WAVE
- Team members: Shen, Hu, Yang, Liu, Zhan, Wang
- School: Beijing Haidian Kaiwen Academy
- Business area: Nature conservation
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Structure
First Session
Delegates will receive a broad introduction into their committee topics. Directors will begin with a presentation that puts their committee topic in a global context, and introduce historical context and background information relevant to the case. Delegates will also gain a working knowledge of the key terms and concepts necessary to join an informed discussion on the topic. Directors are encouraged to begin the committee with icebreakers to make delegates more comfortable.
Second Session
The Director will create a “Speakers’ List”. Each delegate will be given time to present his/her role in the committee and position on the current topic. Directors will elaborate on each of the roles as they see fit and introduce different organizational structures and coalitions, thus providing a theoretical framework for the case study to follow.
Third & Fourth Session
Directors will also introduce the case study in this session. The rest of the conference will aim to tackle the case and devise a solution. Delegates will divide into coalitions according to their assigned roles, and draft a comprehensive agreement or policy recommendation, known as a “White Paper”. Directors may choose different committee formats to facilitate debate and discussion while delegates are developing their White Papers.
Fifth Session
Students will present their White Papers in front of the entire committee.
Time may be allotted for a brief Q&A session.
Sixth Session!
If all presentations have finished, Directors may use the remaining time to debrief on the progress of the conference and play concluding games.
FINALS AWARDS
Awards
- Gold Award: 1 Team
- Silver Award: Top 15% Teams
- Bronze Award: Top 30% Teams
- Top Trading Team
- Best Project Award
- Best Entrepreneur Award
- Prototype Award
ASEEDER Scholarship
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Finals – Gold, Silver & Bronze Award, Individual award teams can get a maximum of 8,000 RMB per person scholarship.
SEMI LEAGUE AWARDS
Awards
- Gold Award: 1 Team
- Silver Award: Top 15% Teams
- Bronze Award: Top 30% Teams
- Top Trading Team
- Best Project Award
- Best Entrepreneur Award
- Prototype Award
ASEEDER Scholarship
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Semi League – Gold, Silver & Bronze Award, Individual award teams can get the person scholarship.
Includes the exam, grading, proctor fee, past-papers, certificates.
registration deadline2 weeks before the competition