2022 Korea Youth Peace Plus+ Open-lab Lab Project
Various Imaginations for Peace between North and South Korea
It is hosted and organized by the Korea Council of Governors, Incheon City, and Gangwon-do Province, and executed by the Korea Foundation for Sympathy Manse Peace Wind. It is a project to help young people at home and abroad discover and experiment with future agendas and ideas that can contribute to sustainable development and permanent peace settlement between the two Koreas.
‘Open Lab Project’
It consists of an "imaginary contest" that contests ideas in an easy-to-participate form, an open table that embodies the selected ideas, and "expert incubation and consulting" that leads to commercialization.
Imagination Contest
- Objective: Finding practical projects
- Selection criteria: feasibility, creativity and innovation, impact and potential, contribution, empathy
- Support details: differential support by project development cost ranking within a total budget of KRW 37 million, incubating experts in each field, and consulting support
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018.08(Mon) ~ 9.04(Sun)
Application for Imagination Contest
Every young man
Online application for public offering -
02
9.07(Wed)30 teams selected
Online voting and
Selection by expert review -
03
9.13(Tue) ~ 10.16(Sun)Conduct open tables and seminars
Supplement the contents of the contest through small discussions online and offline -
0410.20(Thu)
4 teams selected
No-priority selection by expert
(Support for business development expenses) -
0510.22(Sat) ~ 11.27(Sun)
Expert incubation and consulting
Initial Business Model through Expert Matching
Conduct incubation and consulting -
0612.01(Thu)
The final presentation
Announcement of 4 teams, on-site screening, and awards
(Payment of prize money by ranking)
- The Imagination Contest is a civic-participating idea-discovery platform where young people from home and abroad come up with ideas or agendas and discuss them for 100 days from July to September.
- The final International Open Forum is an international forum to share the entire 100-day process and present and discuss the experiences and ideas of young people at home and abroad who can contribute to sustainable development and permanent peace settlement between the two Koreas. Offline and non-face-to-face online forums will be held during Peace Week in October.
Case of Peace Economy
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