UNESCO SDG4 Youth & Student Network 2026-2027 for Young Education Leaders – YOA

Deadline: July 10, 2025

Are you keen about schooling and desirous to make a difference? The SDG4 Youth & Student Network, managed by UNESCO, is wanting for the following cohort of younger schooling leaders for 2026-2027. Apply now and be part of a worldwide neighborhood driving change in schooling!

The SDG4 Youth & Student Network is a worldwide neighborhood of younger leaders and specialists devoted to advancing Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4) – Quality Education. Managed by UNESCO, this Network empowers youth and college students to contribute to instructional coverage, advocacy, and innovation. Members interact in varied actions, together with workshops, conferences, and collaborative tasks, to advertise inclusive and equitable high quality schooling for all.

The SDG4 Youth & Student Network can also be the official physique representing youth and college students within the SDG4 High-Level Steering Committee, the worldwide apex physique for choice-making in schooling, composed of Ministers of Education and representatives of civil society, worldwide organizations, donors, personal sector and foundations.

Members take part within the Network of their private capability and serve for a interval of two years: from January 2026 to December 2027. New members may even take part in inception actions along with present members between October and December 2025.

Duties

Members of the SDG4 Youth & Student Network play an lively function in advancing international schooling goals. Here are some examples of their work:

• They represent thematic working teams (akin to on inclusive schooling, schooling for sustainable growth, schooling in emergencies, international citizenship schooling, digital studying & AI and so forth.) to collaborate on a variety of initiatives, akin to writing coverage briefs and factsheets, organizing occasions and webinars, and main advocacy campaigns to advertise inclusive and equitable high quality schooling.
• They elect regional representatives to serve in an Executive Committee. This committee ensures efficient coordination and choice-making on all Network-related issues and ensures liaison with UNESCO.
• Additionally, two elected members of the Executive Committee sit within the SDG4 High-Level Steering Committee, serving as youth and scholar representatives. They are accountable for often consulting community members and different youth and college students on schooling subjects, to make sure that the voices of those teams are amplified in excessive-stage discussions, and contribute to coverage dialogues and choice-making processes.

By becoming a member of the Network, members decide to dedicating part of their time to arrange and take part in consultations, campaigns and dealing teams. They additionally decide to often take part within the common Monthly Network Meetings.

Eligibility

• Between the ages of 16 and 30.
• Be an lively member of a nationwide, regional and/or international non-governmental and not-for-profit group of youth and college students working in a area associated to SDG4 – Education 2030.
• Be lively within the fields associated to SDG4 – Education 2030.
• Have no battle of curiosity as per the Network Code of Conduct (e.g. maintain authorities positions or employment in for-profit organizations and firms which will generate a battle of curiosity).

Current and previous members of the SDG4 Youth & Student Network are eligible to apply for the brand new cohort 2026-2027. However, the variety of renewed members can’t signify greater than 10% of the brand new cohort.

Application

Throughout the application, you’ll need to supply detailed details about your present work as SDG4 – Education 2030 advocate. Make certain you become familiar with the questions forward of beginning the application course of.

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For extra data, go to UNESCO SDG4 Youth & Student Network.