BCIS Launches the Youth Leadership Academy Leaders for the 21st Century

The Inauguration Ceremony of the BCIS Youth Leadership Academy was held on Saturday, January 22, 2022 at the Olympus Auditorium of the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies (BCIS).

The “Leaders for the 21st Century” is a pioneering leadership training programme launched by the BCIS. The focus of this programme is to create awareness and help foster integral pre-requisites for credible leadership such as honesty, commitment, efficiency among the participants. The BCIS Youth Leadership Academy was established as a CSR Project of the BMICH with the prime objective of training young people to become responsible and effective leaders. The duration of the course is 06 months. Participants are selected through a public call for applications and subjected to a selection process.

This is a non-residential training programme.

Dr. Sunil Wijesiriwardena serves as the principal Academic Leader of the newly launched BCIS Youth Leadership Academy. Mr. Dhammika Kalapuge, Dr. Ursla Peiris, Mr. Lakshman Perera, Mr. Ruwan Basnayake and Ms. Samitha Ethuldoraarachchi function as the other academia.

The BCIS which was established in 1974, is a non-profit, tertiary level educational and research institution under the BMICH umbrella which is dedicated to research and advanced studies in international relations, linguistic and cultural studies. In addition to the language and International Relations courses offered, the BCIS decided to launch the “Leaders for the 21st Century” programme as the first management training course.