Within the presence of Her Highness Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairperson of Dubai Tradition and Arts Authority, the Dubai Youth Council lately organised the Dubai Youth Retreat, which witnessed the participation of notable figures from various domains.
Amongst theesteemed attendees throughout the occasion have been His Excellency Dr. Sultan bin Saif Al Neyadi, Minister of State for Youth Affairs; His Excellency Omar bin Sultan Al Olama, Minister of State for Synthetic Intelligence, Digital Economic system, and Distant Work Purposes; His Excellency Abdullah Mohammed Al Basti, Secretary-Basic of The Govt Council of Dubai; Her Excellency Hala Badri, Director Basic of Dubai Tradition and Arts Authority (Dubai Tradition); His Excellency Abdullah Ali bin Zayed Al Falasi, Director Basic of the Dubai Authorities Human Sources Division; and His Excellency DherarBelhoul Al Falasi, Director Basic of the Watani Al Emarat Basis;moreover over 80 younger women and men from the youth councils within the emirate, along with various consultants within the fields of financial system, innovation, area, tradition, and neighborhood service.
The retreat, sponsored by Dubai Tradition, is designed to assist and improve the capabilities of youth in management, creativity, financial system, and society, whereas motivating them to develop modern options for future societal challenges. Hosted on the Etihad Museum, the retreat offered an modern strategic platform that fosters communication between youth, leaders, decision-makers from Dubai’s authorities departments and establishments, in addition to consultants and specialists from numerous fields. The discussion board promoted the change of experiences and concepts, aligning with Dubai’s imaginative and prescient to spend money on its youth, put together and qualify them for the long run, and actively contain them in shaping it. Such efforts contribute to solidifying Dubai’s place and world management.
Her Highness Sheikha Latifa emphasised that the Dubai Youth Retreat aligns with Dubai’s forward-looking strategy and dedication to fostering creativity and innovation. She highlighted that the retreat represents an bold dialogue, showcasing the inventive considering, modern imaginative and prescient, and skill of the UAE’s youth to impact optimistic change of their communities and nation. She stated, “This retreat is an funding in tomorrow, and a stepping stone in direction of a shiny and sustainable future, pushed by the ambitions of our youth. It is going to undoubtedly nurture decision-makers and leaders who’re accountable and dedicated to shaping future plans and insurance policies, according to the modern and inventive imaginative and prescient of our management, persevering with our journey of excellence.”
Her Highness added, “This retreat embodies the mixing of roles needed to attain Dubai’s imaginative and prescient of supporting innovation. Its significance lies in constructing real partnerships between youth and decision-makers throughout numerous sectors. These partnerships are an important instrument in reaching the sustainable growth objectives we attempt for.” Her Highness highlighted the inspiring occasions and actions throughout the Dubai Youth Retreat, held along with the launch of the Nationwide Youth Agenda 2031, which goals to place Emirati youth as a number one mannequin regionally and globally in thought, values, and significant contributions to financial, social growth, and nationwide duty.
Invested sooner or later
Commenting on the occasion, His Excellency Dr. Sultan Al Neyadi stated: “Youth are the muse of growth and the cornerstone for constructing a affluent and sustainable future. The clever management has all the time believed in investing of their energies and guiding them in direction of innovation and creativity in numerous fields. We always attempt to supply an enabling surroundings that enables them to attain their aspirations and develop their talents, as they’re the leaders of tomorrow who will carry the duty of continuous the pioneering achievements witnessed by the UAE.”
HE Al Neyadi added: “The Dubai Youth Retreat has strengthened the values of management and innovation amongst bold Emirati youth, strengthening their position in decision-making to form a shiny future for Dubai and the UAE as an entire. This initiative is a results of the efforts that started with the primary youth retreat in 2016, adopted by the 2024 retreat, which laid the muse for the launch of the Nationwide Youth Agenda 2031. Every of those initiatives has offered a transparent imaginative and prescient for the way forward for youth and represented a major turning level towards reaching the sustainable growth objectives.”
Her Excellency Hala Badri emphasised the significance and necessity of empowering, guiding, and supporting the youth of their ambitions and turning their goals into actuality. “Youth are the hope of the current and future, a driving power, a supply of inspiration, and the true engine of innovation and sustainable growth. Their various concepts, abilities, and capabilities embody the values of giving in all fields. Our clever management has believed within the significance of investing in them and harnessing their energies and competencies, encouraging them to participate in Dubai’s evolution and elevating its attractiveness, which has positively impacted the emirate’s world prominence,” she stated.
“The Dubai Youth Retreat helps assist communication, presenting fashions of youth thought and steering. It has created an surroundings that fosters creativity and excellence, able to opening new horizons for youth and giving them the chance to take part in formulating a collection of qualitative initiatives and plans that put together them for the long run, enhancing their position in growing options that meet their wants and assist them face challenges. I’m pleased with the standard of concepts and matters mentioned throughout the retreat and its outcomes, which handle the objectives of the Nationwide Youth Agenda 2031,” she added.
Interactive workshops
The retreat’s programme included a collection of brainstorming periods and interactive workshops that addressed themes highlighting the affect of youth and their position in driving optimistic change and contributing to the event course of.
The financial system and commerce theme mentioned the necessity to develop younger abilities, equip them with modern instruments to face future challenges and encourage them to construct on their concepts and launch entrepreneurial initiatives. The innovation theme centered on methods to encourage youth to interact in inventive considering, harness technological developments, and make use of them in creating modern services.
Inside the theme of the army sector, members highlighted the necessity to put together a technology of youth able to management, believing in teamwork, and possessing a way of duty, which reinforces their loyalty and raises their consciousness of the significance of defending the nation and sustaining its safety and stability.
The area and future theme additionally shaped an essential a part of the retreat’s discussions, the place strategies to encourage youth and encourage them to take part in scientific analysis and form the way forward for area have been explored. Below the values, tradition, and neighborhood service themes, members debated the position and duty of youth in selling giving, moral values, optimistic behaviours, cultural range, and instilling nationwide identification in society, in addition to the need of their lively participation in growing neighborhood service.
Hassan Sabt, President of the Dubai Youth Council, stated: “The Dubai Youth Retreat represents a pioneering step in direction of enhancing the position of youth as efficient and influential parts within the journey of growth and innovation that Dubai is witnessing. By means of this retreat, we’re eager to create an interactive surroundings that enables youth the chance to attach with leaders and decision-makers straight and specific their opinions and ambitions overtly. We now have been capable of present a strategic platform empowering youth to develop their abilities in numerous fields, whether or not in management, innovation, financial, or social domains. We imagine that youth are the important pillar of Dubai’s future, able to reaching the optimistic change all of us search.”
Vary of outcomes
Sabt added: “The retreat has resulted in a spread of outcomes that replicate the deep interplay between youth and leaders, affirming the significance of youth’s position in shaping the emirate’s future. We’re dedicated to supporting them and offering them instruments to face future challenges and obtain their ambitions. This retreat is not only an annual occasion however the starting of a collection of initiatives that may contribute to reworking Dubai into a worldwide centre for innovation and creativity, pushed by the youth’s limitless energies and capabilities.”
The Dubai Youth Retreat concluded with a set of key outcomes, together with the launch of six dialogue platforms for younger individuals to debate numerous problems with curiosity and probably the most urgent challenges they face in numerous sectors corresponding to financial system, tradition, army, innovation, synthetic intelligence, area, and the long run. Studies have been additionally tabled showcasing a wealth of modern concepts and options able to contributing to Dubai’s growth and progress, together with the activation of channels for expertise switch and change of data between youth, leaders, and consultants throughout numerous fields.