YOUR (Youth Outreach for Urban Renewal) Discussions over Coffee
Deadline for entries to san-kranti, a nation-wide student challenge extended to October 1, 2011, The top three proposals will be offered Rs.300,000 each to implement solutions.
- (1888PressRelease) September 17, 2011 - New Delhi, India: san-kranti, the ongoing nationwide student challenge initiated by the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), is initiating two dozen Urban Cafe discussions in collaboration with Cafe Coffee Day (CCD) across Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Kolkata. Urban Cafes will build on the ongoing momentum of young people to make a change in India and focus on the renewal of the neighbourhoods, towns and cities they live in. The Urban Cafes will be rolled out in metropolitan cities; and build out to other cities and towns across India.
The Youth Outreach for Urban Renewal (YOUR) initiative starts today and these sessions will be open to all visitors on a first come basis. These conversations will be lead by IIHS representatives, advisors and subject matter experts. The event schedule will be posted on the san-kranti and Cafe Coffee Day social media sites. The topics to be taken up at the Urban Cafe's will be announced one day in advance.
Discussions will typically take place in three distinct phases.
1. Introductions and initial overview on the topic. One minute for each participant
2. Detailed discussion on the topic. Two minutes for each participant
3. An open discussion round moderated by the host.
A summary of the conversation will be updated on the san-kranti portal. Apart from this, live Tweets and Facebook uploads will take place during the event. Participants' feedback will be shared.
The Urban Cafe will be a platform that will bring 8-10 minds together to discuss city-focussed urban challenges. A well-lit, low noise area will be chosen in CCD.
"A lot can happen over coffee, and 'The Youth Outreach for Urban Renewal partnership' with Cafe Coffee Day will open up a series of conversations on how we can change our neighbourhoods and cities for the better", said Director of IIHS, Aromar Revi. "We are proud of this initiative; it will leverage the spirit of positive change in the country today and enable young people to come together. They can discuss the challenges we face as urban citizens on a daily basis and provide solutions to them which we can help implement. Based on requests from students entering the challenge, we have extended the application deadline to October 1, 2011"
He also added, "We will do our best to take the urban cafes and san-kranti beyond the realm of conversation into reality. Rs.300,000 will be available to the three best teams to implement the most promising solutions that emerge across the country"
K Ramakrishna, President Marketing at Cafe Coffee Day said, "Cafe Coffee Day has always been a place much loved by the young and young at heart in the country. It is a place wherein they meet for leisure, work to plain simple banter. The cafe space is one that empowers each to think and express freely; it is a great aggregator of youth. We believe that the Urban Cafe will provide our customers opportunities to discuss issues that impact our lives on a daily basis and we see san-kranti as a great platform to be part of this urban renewal."
The san-kranti student challenge is a component of the India Urban Conference 2011, the India's largest urban conference of 2011. The people working behind the scenes to make India Urban Conference 2011 happen are The Indian Institute for Human Settlements Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy and Yale University in collaboration with the Ministry of Urban Development, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation of the Government of India.
ABOUT san-kranti
An ongoing platform to engage young people with urban transformation. It challenges students to take a hard look at some of our most pressing urban problems and explore their multi-dimensional impact on our economy, society, environment and politics.
The challenge is open to teams of 3 to 5 participants from multiple disciplines who will suggest viable and innovative solutions to these problems in their city or town. The deadline for team submissions has also been extended to October 1, 2011 from an initial date of September 15, 2011. More information about IHS is available on www.transformurbanindia.com
ABOUT INDIAN INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SETTLEMENTS
The Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) is a national education institution committed to the equitable, sustainable and efficient transformation of Indian settlements. IIHS is India's first prospective independently funded and managed National University for Innovation that focuses on its ongoing urban and development transformation. It is a first-of-its-kind, practice and innovation-oriented knowledge institution that seeks to bridge the conventional excellence, scale and inclusion divides. More information about IHS is available on www.iihs.co.in
ABOUT CAFE COFFEE DAY
Cafe Coffee Day is a part of India's largest coffee conglomerate, Amalgamated Bean Coffee Trading Company Ltd. (ABCTCL), the first to roll out the 'coffee bar' concept in India with its first cafe in Bangalore. Cafe Coffee Day serves the coffee it grows on the 7,400 acres of its own estates plus another 2,500 acres of managed estates, the group also sources coffee from 11,000 small growers, making its holder the largest individual coffee plantation owner in Asia, this in addition to being India's only vertically integrated coffee company. Cafe Coffee Day's menu ranges from signature hot and cold coffees to several exotic international coffees, food, desserts and pastries. In addition, exciting merchandise such as coffee powders, cookies, mugs, coffee filters, etc. are available at the cafes.
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