DIU hosted 2019 Youth4SDG Asia Leadership Program in Bangladesh from 19 to 26 January 2019 organized by Youthink Center China with the active participation of 18 talented students from 18 different universities in China. Under this program, the young leaders worked to create the social business plan after surveying different villages of Bangladesh under case study. They also visited the small enterprises, social business project, and had sessions on Social Business model Canvas etc.

During the Closing Ceremony, Dr. Md. Sabur Khan conducted a session on ‘Social Entrepreneurship in Mind’ followed by certificate awarding for the participants. After 1 week long Social Business Action Learning, all the participants under 3 teams presented their Social Business project targeting different SDGs. Mr. Alex Wang, Secretary-General, Youthink Center, China & Prof Dr. Md Masum Iqbal Dean of FBE and Director of YSBC DIU signed a Memorandum of Understanding to organize similar program every year and share each other’s resources in near future focusing on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG).