2019 YES! Regional Final at ZEW
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21.06.2019
100 High School Students from Four Federal States to Participate in Qualification Round in Mannheim
On 26 June 2018, the regional final of the high school economic competition YES! – Young Economic Summit will take place at ZEW in Mannheim. The nine teams from the Southwest region mentored by ZEW economists will have the opportunity to present their solutions to current economic problems. The high school students themselves will then vote on which teams should represent the Southwest in the national final to be held in September in Hamburg.
The competition is heating up... Which of the high school teams mentored by ZEW will make it through the Southwest regional final to compete in the grand final? Could this year’s winner be one of the ZEW teams? ZEW has accompanied the winning teams both in 2017 and 2018 – which has given ZEW ample incentive to help the students of this year’s competition win the top places.
The student teams will present their solutions to the following issues on 26 June:
- Strengthening Labour Market Integration of Refugees: Which Approaches Work?, mentors: Paul Berbée and Katrin Sommerfeld – Kurfürst-Ruprecht-Gymnasium Neustadt an der Weinstraße and Engelsburg-Gymnasium Kassel
- https://www.young-economic-summit.org/bezahlbaren-wohnraum-schaffen-aber-wie-2019/Tackling the Problem of Housing Unaffordability!– But How?, mentors: Carolin Schmidt and Frank Brückbauer – Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium Neustadt an der Weinstraße and BSZ Leonberg
- https://www.young-economic-summit.org/fakten-statt-fake-news-warum-wissenschaftskommunikation-im-digitalen-raum-immer-wichtiger-wird-2019/Facts vs. Fake News –Why Digital Science Communication Is Getting More Important, mentors: Daniela Heimberger and Felix Kretz – Internatsschule Schloss Hansenberg Geisenheim
- https://www.young-economic-summit.org/going-digital-unternehmen-erfolgreich-in-die-digitale-zukunft-fuehren-2019/Going Digital – Leading Companies into a Successful Future, mentors: Jörg Ohnemus and Steffen Viete – Hohe Landesschule Hanau
- http://www.young-economic-summit.org/klimawandel-und-der-europaeische-co2-markt-2019/Climate Change and the European CO2 Market, mentors: Carina Fugger – Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium Weinheim
- Equal Opportunities in the Education Sector, mentor: Lukas Riedel – Lessing-Gymnasium Mannheim
- https://www.young-economic-summit.org/unterstuetzung-innovativer-start-ups-2019/Helping Innovative Small and Medium Enterprises Grow, mentors: Bastian Krieger and Markus Trunschke – Richard-Müller-Schule Fulda BBS
Finding solutions, attracting interest, assuming responsibility
YES! – Young Economic Summit is one of the biggest high school competitions in Germany looking at issues affecting the future of our world. The YES! programme, a joint project run by the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics and the Joachim Herz Stiftung, is under the patronage of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. Over the course of a six-month mentoring programme, teams of high school students – divided into five different regions – will come up with their own solutions to key issues likely to face our society in the near future. Researchers from various Leibniz institutions are supporting the students by providing their scientific expertise. Since encouraging young researchers is a key concern of ZEW, our research staff were all in agreement that the institute should continue to support the competition in the Southwest region in 2019.
About YES!
The YES! programme, a joint project run by the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics and the Joachim Herz Stiftung, is under the patronage of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. 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 to other students, also known as the “YES! – Young Economic Summit”. Researchers from various Leibniz institutions support the students by providing their scientific expertise. At the regional finals, the high school students from the Southwest region will then vote on which teams should represent the region in the national finals. The best teams from five different regions will then face off against each other at the YES! national final in Hamburg in September 2019.
