Sustainability is about ensuring that future generations inherit intact ecosystems
that would meet their needs as much as they are meeting our needs.

Regeneration takes sustainability further, by seeking to heal existing degradation
to nurture resilient ecosystems using interdisciplinary and frameworks
to address problems and foster intergenerational solutions.
Asian societies have gone down the path of rapid development
and urbanisation, leading to large-scale deterioration
of eco-systems and social resilience.

RAS aims to bring young people together in Singapore,
joined by thought leaders from around the world,
to exchange their ideas, deepen their skills and develop
inter-Asia networks to regenerate our world.

A Two-day intensive summit
leading to learning & innovation

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Engage Diverse
Stakeholders
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Connecting and Collaborating
Across Asia
4-5 July 2025
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Advocate Action
and Influence Policy
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NUS Summer Programmes
Skills Development & Innovation
7-18 July 2025

NUS Summer
Programmes
Skills Development
& Innovation

7-18 July 2025

Articulation with
AUS & AUN camps
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Regenerating Interconnected Communities
  • 2025: Inviting up to 50 AUS2024 students who implemented seed projects to RAS2025 and 100 AUN Summer Camps students
  • 2025: 300 RAS2025 participants to join AUS2025 to deepen skills learning and hack collabo rative seed projects
  • 2026: 300 AUS2026 participants
  • 2027: Inviting up to 100 AUS2025/26 and 200 AUN Summer Camps participants to RAS2027

Student-led organisation
for students

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New C&E Course hosted in PVO
GEN2080 Engaging Youths
for Regenerating Asia
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600 Participating Undergraduates from Asian Universities
200 Stakeholders and Thought Leaders to Engage & Network
30 Student Leaders in the International Student Executive Committee
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GEN2080 Engaging Youths
for Regenerating Asia

Training Student Leaders
30 students from AUN universities:
  • 1-year 4-credit course starting from Jan 2025
  • Blended learning with weekly 2-hour Zoom seminars in Sem 1
  • In-person workshop in BKK with AUN Secretariat
  • 1-week in SG to organise RAS
  • 4 closing seminars in Sem 2
Learning Outcome
Students will be able to:
  • Understand eco-social complexity & regeneration
  • Curate a programme for intergenerational engagement
  • Facilitate breakout sessions and presentation workshops
  • Organise the alumni for collaborative action
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Programme

Day 1 - 3 July

Indicative Programme

International Student Executive Committee to curate final programme

Registration & Check-in
Valour House & RVRC

Warm-up Dinner
University Sports Centre

Fireside Chat with
young NUS changemakers
Be the Change You Want to Be

Day 2 - 4 July

Networking Breakfast, Lunch and Coffee Breaks

Networking Dinner and Cultural Evening

Welcome & Keynote Addresses
Chancellor Tharman &
President Tan Eng Chye

Panel Discussion with thought leaders
Trends & Challenges in Regeneration

Breakout Sessions I
Elements of Regeneration Business, Community, Energy, Food, Policy, Water

Breakout Sessions II
Elements of Regeneration Business, Community, Energy, Food, Policy, Water

Day 3 - 5 July

Networking Breakfast Preparation Lunch

Closing Ceremony and Farewell Reception

Mass Breakout 1
Cross-sector Partnerships

Mass Breakout 2
Community Engagements

Mass Breakout 3
Leveraging Tech for Action

Parallel Presentations 1
Students to present on Cross-sector Partnerships

Parallel Presentations 2
Students to present on Community Engagements

Parallel Presentations 3
Students to present on Leveraging Tech for Action

Organising Commitee

Organising Structure
  • Chancellor, Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, President of the Republic of Singapore
  • Advisory Council of five eminent persons
  • AUN Rectors’ Meeting attended by
    NUS President Prof Tan Eng Chye
  • Steering Committee chaired by
    Prof Veera and A/P Daniel Goh

Steering Committee

Veera Sekaran
Professor
Veera Sekaran
  • Office of the President
  • NUS Cities
  • Engineering and Design Innovation Centre
  • Advisor, NUS Enterprise
  • Director, Regenerative Agritech Centre,
    Department of Biological Sciences,
    Faculty of Science

Research and development of new technologies in Nature-Based for Urban and Natural Ecologies, Regenerative Agriculture for Indoor Urban(Controlled Environment Agriculture) and Outdoor Smart farms. Lecturer in various topics in Engineering Design and Innovation, IoT and Smart Ai systems, Regenerative Cities of the Future (NUS Cities), and Biological Sciences in Nature-based solutions for Conservation and Ecology. Leading in Masterplan Development of NUS Campus and other campus development projects.

Daniel PS Goh
Associate Professor
Daniel PS Goh
  • Associate Provost (Undergraduate Education), Office of the Provost
  • Vice Dean (Special Programmes), NUS College
  • Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

I am a sociologist who uses ethnographic and comparative-historical methods to study state formation, urbanism, postcolonialism, race and multiculturalism, and religion in Asia. I work closely with anthropologists, geographers, historians, legal scholars, planning scholars and fellow sociologists on interdisciplinary research projects. I research and write to leave a legacy of knowledge. I love teaching and learning from undergraduate and graduate students.

Organised by:
Organisers

Organising Partner:
Zeroth Labs

Zeroth Labs

A mission-driven research and innovation lab, Zeroth Labs uses the science of complex systems to tackle wicked problems. They support countries and cities at varying stages of development to make sense of the messy underlying dynamics that make their complex policy challenges the way they are.

  • Evolved from a youth development NGO in Singapore
  • Research and planning projects with UNDP and USAID
  • Teaching projects with NUS YLLSOM and LKYSPP
  • Founder Ms Bernise Ang is a Young Global Leader at World Economic Forum and RC4 Adjunct Lecturer