Kick-off Round of YES! – Young Economic Summit 2018 Takes Place at ZEW
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How can we most effectively integrate highly skilled migrants into the labour market? How can we combat child poverty? These are just some of the issues that served as the focus of the second kick-off week of the YES! – Young Economic Summit – the largest economics competition for high school students in Germany – hosted by ZEW on 13–16 March 2018. The event saw four teams of high school students get to grips with their assigned topics with the help of ZEW researchers.
Our society is in greater need of creative and innovative ideas from the next generation than ever before and the YES! – Young Economic Summit provides them with a platform to make their voices heard. 2018 sees the high school competition focused on economic and social issues enter its fourth year. With the support of ZEW economists, the participating groups of high school students will be tackling some of the most pressing economic issues of our time, developing their own solutions over the coming weeks before presenting them at the regional final in Mannheim on 15 June 2018.
This year, researchers at ZEW will be mentoring a total of nine teams from the states of Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland working on the following topics:
- Johann-Philipp Bronner Schule Wiesloch: Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Highly-Skilled Migrants (ZEW team: Bastian Krieger, Florence Blandinières, Maikel Pellens, Markus Trunschke)
- Fritz-Erler Schule Pforzheim: Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Highly-Skilled Migrants (ZEW team: Bastian Krieger, Florence Blandinières, Maikel Pellens, Markus Trunschke)
- Fritz-Erler Schule Pforzheim: How to Combat Child Poverty and How Can Children and Adolescents Be Best Supported? (Holger Stichnoth)
- Windeck Schule Bühl: How to Combat Child Poverty and How Can Children and Adolescents Be Best Supported? (Holger Stichnoth)
- Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium Metzingen: Promoting Digitisation in Businesses (Jörg Ohnemus and Steffen Viete)
- Saarpfalz Gymnasium Homburg: Promoting Digitisation in Businesses (Jörg Ohnemus and Steffen Viete)
- Otto-Schott-Gymnasium Mainz: eGoverning Germany: The Future of Public Administration (Sebastian Blesse and Thomas Schwab)
- BBS Wirtschaft 1 Ludwigshafen: Organising an Efficient Allocation of Day-Care Spots for Children (Nicolas Fugger)
- Saarpfalz Gymnasium Homburg: Media Usage in the Digital World (Daniel Erdsiek and Thomas Niebel)
About YES!
The YES! – Young Economic Summit is a joint project of the German National Library of Economics (ZBW) – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics and the Joachim Herz Stiftung in Hamburg. YES! is one of the biggest high school competitions in Germany looking at issues affecting the future of our world. Over the course of a six-month mentoring programme, student teams tackle pressing issues facing future generations. The students come up with their own solutions to global economic, ecological and social problems and present them as part of a conference for other students, also known as the “YES! – Young Economic Summit”. Researchers from various Leibniz institutions support the students by providing their scientific expertise. The regional qualification round for teams from Southwest Germany will take place on 15 June 2018 at ZEW in Mannheim. The best teams from four different regions will then face off against each other at the YES! national final in Hamburg in September 2018.
