Ban Ki-Moon Centre Global Citizen Scholarship Program 2025 – YOA

Deadline: February 24, 2025

Applications open for the Ban Ki-Moon Centre Global Citizen Scholarship Program 2025. The Global Citizen Scholarship Program empowers younger, lively international citizen leaders who’re engaged for the SDGs and should in any other case not have entry to useful academic alternatives, networking experiences, and peer-to-peer change. The Scholarship contains the OPPORTUNITY to attend a specialised educational coaching, be a part of worldwide fora, community with excessive-degree changemakers, attend professional expertise trainings and workshops and revenue from peer-to-peer change particularly by means of a peer-to-peer mentoring part throughout this system.

This 12 months, the Ban Ki-moon Centre will choose 14 younger African international citizen leaders who’re captivated with advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). They will likely be joined by three Management Center Innsbruck college students, forming a cohort of 17 changemakers taking part on this 12 months‘s scholarship.

Scholars will attend the MCI Summer School on “Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development” and extra particular expertise coaching with different entities and/or people. Above this, they are going to obtain peer-to-peer mentoring from former BKMC Scholar Alumni and be a part of the RELX Inspiration Day 2025. The chosen students may also be answerable for proposing and implementing their very own SDG Micro-Project of their neighborhood throughout the scholarship interval (April – December 2025). SDG Micro-Projects are localized tasks addressing a number of of the SDGs in a area people and context.

Scholarship

• Scholars will obtain a USD $500 seed grant to help their mission and can obtain mission administration coaching and steerage all through the mission proposal and implementation course of.

Eligibility

• Open to African youth from any nation of the continent, no matter race, gender, or sexual orientation,
• Age group 20-35.
• Applicants should exhibit sturdy dedication to SDGs and the beliefs of worldwide citizenship.
• Applicants should present proof of a great English commonplace (degree B2 – European Standards).
• Applicants will need to have accomplished not less than a Master’s diploma (in distinctive instances, a efficiently accomplished first 12 months of research will suffice.

Application

Applications for the 2025 cohort are open now and can shut on February 24, 2025.

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Global Citizen Scholarship Program.