UNESCO-NESTLÉ Youth Impact – Because You Matter Programme 2025 for Young Changemakers (USD 8,500 in Grants, Training and one-to-one mentorship)

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Application Deadline:  8 April 2025, 23.59 CET!

Applications are actually open for the 2025 UNESCO-NESTLÉ Youth Impact – Because You Matter Programme. YOUTH IMPACT – BECAUSE YOU MATTER – For Environmental Sustainability and Climate Action is an initiative led by UNESCO in collaboration with Nestlé, powered by the Nestlé Youth Entrepreneurship Platform. It seeks to assist younger folks to assist their communities by way of local weather motion and environmental sustainability initiatives, by offering them with sources and abilities essential to implement their modern initiatives.

Themes

• Climate change mitigation and adaptation methods that assist native communities
• Sustainable meals techniques
• Regenerative agricultural practices
• Packaging sustainability improvements

  Eligibility Requirements
  The mission’s main and direct beneficiaries shall be younger people, youth-led organizations, enterprises, associations, or networks who:

• Are recognized as “youth” in their respective nations or (in lack of a nationwide definition) inside the age vary of 18-30 years previous from the start to the tip of the mission.
• Engage in activism and changemaking initiatives, entrepreneurialism, both individually or as members of entities/associations.
• Youth-led group and networks, in search of impression at grassroots degree, with regional, nationwide, native scope, or chapters of worldwide organizations, and based mostly in the nation the place their proposal shall be applied.
• All functions will suggest initiatives which are:
• related to the Initiative’s themes as elaborated above
• applied inside 6 months
• native or nationwide in scope
• delivered by a group of at the very least 3 younger folks with a clearly recognized mission chief.

  Benefits

  To this finish, 100 mission leaders shall be chosen worldwide to obtain:

•  Grant of USD 8,500 every, and
• Training and one-to-one mentorship, all through their mission implementation.
• 100 grants of USD 8,500 every can be found globally, with 20 grants designated for every UNESCO area: Africa, Arab Region, Asia and Pacific, Europe and North America, and Latin America and the Caribbean. 
• The 100 grantees will embark on an unique 6-month transformative journey of coaching and mentoring with consultants from Nestlé and UNESCO.

Programme Details

• Immersion Training: Dive into devoted workshops specializing in entrepreneurship, mission administration, and the ability of youth-led motion, guided by Nestlé consultants from across the globe.
• Online Contextualized Trainings: Receive contextualized coaching based mostly in your geographical location and the theme of your mission, addressing native challenges and priorities with assist from UNESCO regional companions.
• Monthly Online Trainings and Gatherings: Gain perception from UNESCO’s and its companions’ know-how on mission administration and integrating key societal points in your initiatives, and expertise Nestlé’s Innovation Box, the place you’ll study ideation, shopper validation, prototyping, and how one can pitch your concepts with confidence.
• One-on-One Mentorship: Benefit from customized steerage from a Nestlé govt mentor, who will assist you thru your initiative and past.

Application Timeline:

• Call for Applications: 18 Mar – 8 Apr 2025
• Project Evaluation: 9 Apr – 9 Jun 2025
• Award Ceremony: 18 Sep 2025
• Capability Building Programme: Aug 2025 – Apr 2026

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the UNESCO-NESTLÉ Youth Impact – Because You Matter Programme