The first Professional Students’ Summit, PSS 2019, will be organised under the aegis of the Higher Education Department and the Additional Skill Acquisition Programme (ASAP) at the Cochin University of Science and Technology (Cusat) on February 10.
The first-of-its-kind initiative will feature a day-long conclave of around 2,000 students, pursuing professional degree programmes under State universities.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will inaugurate the programme at 10 a.m. Theoretical physicist Sandip Trivedi of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research will interact with students on the occasion.
Addressing media persons here, Higher Education Minister K.T. Jaleel said the programme was aimed at providing students with academic, entrepreneurial and social orientation. “The prime objective is to motivate the participants to pursue their chosen fields with renewed vigour by exposing them to the possibilities for contributing to society in general and the State in particular,” he said.
The speakers include former Supreme Court judge V. Gopala Gowda, academicians M.S. Valiathan, N.R. Madhava Menon, Prof. Trivedi, VSSC Chairman S. Somanath, WHO Deputy Director General of Programmes Soumya Swaminathan, ISRO human spaceflight programme director V.R. Lalithambika, and Public Health Foundation of India president K. Srinath Reddy.