DENSO YOUTH for EARTH Action:New Earthlings Project

In 2008, DENSO Corporation.*2 started the "DENSO YOUTH for EARTH Action:New Earthlings Project" in cooperation with the Japan Environmental Education Forum.*3 It is an international program that will foster young people who have a high level of awareness about humankind's coexistence with the environment and who will actively tackle efforts to create a sustainable society. Through this program, the youth around the world will come into contact with the rich natural world of Japan and the ASEAN countries, and they will experience that coexistence with the environment in regions and companies. Then, they will devise their own action plans based on the various values, broad insights, experiences, and knowledge obtained through the program and present those action plans at the forum. We aim to expand the environmental activity to the world by connecting that to their own activities.

In 2009, which will be the second year of the program, it will be held in Japan for students from Japan and the six ASEAN countries.*4 We hope that Japanese and Southeast Asian youths will learn through on-site experience, and, as a step toward their own future, they will become the "new earthlings" who will support the next generation.
*4 Students from Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Singapore.

Intended applicants
30 university and graduate students from Japan and the six ASEAN countries of Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Singapore

Perspective
Through work-study, this on-site program will teach young people from Japan and the ASEAN countries about creating a sustainable society that enables humans to coexist with the environment and to connect that to their own activities.
Orientation : Share issues
On-site program : Realize,study
Action plan : Develop ideas
Forum : Explain decisions
Following activities : Put into practice
Sponsored by DENSO Corporation, in cooperation with the Japan Environmental Education Forum, and with support from the Ministry of the Environment (application filed), United Nations Environment Programme Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (UNEP ROAP) (planned), and the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies

Application, selection
The ASEAN countries: February 23rd - May 31st　Japan: April 1st - June 30th Calling attention to the significance of problems- Screening of applications, and selection based on interviews

for more information please visite
http://denso-yea.com/en/program/2009_program_overview.html

Source: DENSO CORPORATION