ITU Generation Connect Young Leadership Programme 2025 for young changemakers (Fully Funded)

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Application Deadline:  31 March 2025

Applications are actually open for the 2025 ITU Generation Connect Young Leadership Programme. The Generation Connect Young Leadership Programme (GCYLP) is an thrilling programme to have interaction, empower, and encourage young digital leaders and changemakers. GCYLP is supporting young visionaries from all over the world who suggest artistic, far-reaching, progressive, and possible community-driven tasks geared toward making a extra inclusive and empowered digital future.

ITU in partnership with Huawei, is offering steerage, coaching, and monetary help to 30 young fellows per 12 months to allow them to virtually implement digital improvement tasks of their various communities internationally. Through this programme, young leaders have the distinctive alternative to make new digital improvement concepts a actuality, or to develop the impression of their current tasks!

Requirements

• Are you a young individual aged 18-28?
• Are you curious about making actual impression in your communities by main your individual digital improvement venture?
• Are you presently enrolled or lately graduated from a tertiary training establishment from a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) or a demonstrably STEM-related tutorial programme?
• Are you capable of talk in English, the primary language of the programme? This language requirement is to make sure that all fellows can profit from the deliberate choices of trainings, networking, and occasions.

Benefits

• Virtual mentorship and management coaching classes from ITU and Huawei.
• Participation in an in-person international Development Week in Geneva Switzerland in July 2025.
• Up to $10,000 USD grant to implement a digital improvement venture of your alternative. All 30 chosen fellows will obtain an preliminary $5000 USD grant in the direction of the implementation of a digital improvement venture of their alternative. The most impactful tasks on the finish of the 12 months will obtain an additional $5000 USD grant to scale up.

Selection Process

• Shortlisting: A primary spherical of purposes studying will likely be accomplished by ITU and Huawei workers. By May 2025, shortlisted candidates will then be despatched an invite to shortly [within a week] present ID documentation, a video and a couple of totally different references for the ultimate spherical of choice.
• Final choice: the GCYLP Jury, will then maintain a last choice assembly to decide on the 30 fellows of the cohort. We intention to announce the fellows by June 2025.

Application Procedure

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the ITU Generation Connect Young Leadership Programme