ASEAN-Japan Youth Forum 2025

“Take Actions for Social Change (TASC)

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Overview

The exchange programme to deepen mutual understanding between young people in ASEAN countries and Japan as part of the “Partnership to Co-create a Future with the Next Generation: WA Project 2.0”. The theme for 2025 is “Plastic Waste". Participants will develop their own questions and explore the theme through online programmes, field trips to the Philippines and Japan, and other activities. Then, through dialogue with other team members, participants will create action plans to co-create a better world, and each team will present a report on the outcome.
Important Dates
  • Application timeline:
    • Application Open: 17 (Monday) March, 2025
    • Deadline for Application Submission: 2 (Friday) May 2025 at 23:59pm (GMT+7)
    • 1st Round Selection Result Announcement: 23 (Friday) May, 2025
    • 2nd Round Selection Interview: 2 June (Monday) - 20 (Friday) June, 2025 (20 minutes on any day, online)
      • 2nd Round Selection Result: 27 (Friday) June, 2025 (Tentative)
Eligibility
  • Full-time students enrolled in the invited *university’s undergraduate degree programmes. 
    • *For details, please refer to the Appendix 1 attached hereto
    • *Please note that final-year students are eligible to apply, provided their student status remains valid by the end of this programme.
  • Those who hold the nationality of an ASEAN member country.
  • Those who have not lived abroad (including study abroad) for more than one year after the age of 12
  • Those who do not plan to leave their own country for study, internship, employment, training, etc. during the full duration of the programme
  • Those who are physically and mentally healthy
  • Those who have no problems participating in the full duration of the programme, including the Online Programme. Participation in only part of the time or part of the programme is not allowed.
  • Those who are taking some action on their own to solve common global and national social issues, or those who have a strong interest in such issues or have a strong interest in solving common global and national social issues
  • Those who are interested in international exchange and cross-cultural understanding
  • Sufficient English-language skills and positive attitude to have a global communication
  • Ability to understand the purpose of the programme and to actively participate in the programme. Ability to submit all the assignments given by the organizer on time
  • Those who are able to prepare the necessary equipment for online exchange (computer [not smartphones], internet connection environment, etc.)
  • Those who agree to allow the photographs and videos taken during the programme to be posted on the organizer’s and co-organizers’ websites and SNS etc., for PR purposes (For details, see Appendix 2).
Required Documents

1) Application Form
*Please submit your application through this link.

2) Essay
*Kindly download the essay question through this link.

3) A letter of recommendation from a professor or advising teacher at the university attended by the applicant

*All the documents should be written in English. 
 

Terms of Financial Support

Primarily free (The organizers will cover *international travel expenses, meals and accommodation, and related transportation fee during the programme in the Philippines and Japan).

*The round-trip transportation fee is only from the airport nearest to your home to the venue.

Programme Guideline For further details, please refer to the programme guidelines.
Contact Email tasc@aunsec.org

 

Applications closed.