Fudan University and John von Neumann University inaugurated the 2024 “Rongchang Cup” Youth Innovation Competition on Global Governance (YICGG2024) on July 22 in Budapest, Hungary. The theme for this year was “Society with AI: Humanity and Sustainability.”

YICGG is an international competition that aims to provide an opportunity for aspiring students interested in global governance to interpret and spread their ideas. 

YICGG2024 attracted hundreds of contestants worldwide, with 81 undergraduate and graduate students (B.A., M.A., and Ph.D.) from 38 countries reaching the finals. Among them were three master’s students from the MA IPEEA program at the Faculty of East Asian Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum: Mrs. Anna-Lena Nolte, Mr. Maitree Sterkau, who attended the full week, and Mrs. Saskia Loges, who could not attend in person.

A video of YICGG 2024 can be found HERE (Youtube).

For more information about the participation of this year´s YICGG delegation, please click HERE.