Youth for Peace: UNESCO Intercultural Leadership Programme 2025 ($10,000 grant) – YOA

Deadline: June 22, 2025

Applications are open for the Youth for Peace: UNESCO Intercultural Leadership Programme 2025. The Youth for Peace: UNESCO Intercultural Leadership Programme is an initiative designed to equip rising leaders with the talents, data, and sources to champion intercultural dialogue as a method to handle urgent international challenges.

Through this programme, UNESCO is cultivating a brand new era of champions for dialogue, cohesion, and peace, empowering them to guide transformative motion at native, nationwide, and international ranges. In its first 12 months of operation, the theme for the Programme shall be ‘Learning to Collaborate for a Shared Future: Using dialogue to foster social cohesion in a world on the move’.

Selected members will turn into part of a dynamic, worldwide community of younger leaders and changemakers, gaining the OPPORTUNITY to champion intercultural dialogue and drive significant influence of their communities. This immersive journey consists of capability-constructing, monetary grants, ongoing mentorship and a possibility increase your voice on a global platform. More importantly, it fosters lengthy-time period engagement in a neighborhood of leaders dedicated to utilizing dialogue to drive options and form insurance policies that promote cohesion and foster peace. The programme is a key part of UNESCO’s “Road to Peace: Dialogue and Action for Tolerance and Intercultural Understanding” initiative, amplifying youth-led motion and contributing to systemic change worldwide.

Benefits

• Capacity-Building: Participants will have interaction in a structured capability constructing programme that features:
  • Online Training Workshops – An immersive programme that includes strategic periods designed to equip members with the talents, data, and instruments to embody intercultural management, and implement concrete tasks to champion intercultural options inside their communities.
  • Ongoing Learning and Exchange – A seamless platform of coaching and alternate will assist to additional reinforce the talents and data wanted by collaborating Young Leaders as they start to place plans into motion via the implementation of tasks of their communities (see beneath part for extra particulars).
  • Peer-to-Peer Learning and Mentorship – Regular data-sharing periods and personalised teaching shall be supplied to assist information collaborating Young Leaders as they implement tasks of their communities.
• Financial Grants for Community Projects
  • Following the preliminary on-line coaching workshops, members will finalise and submit plans to implement a challenge inside their neighborhood, leveraging the data and abilities gained to design actions across the theme of ‘Learning to Collaborate for a Shared Future: Using dialogue to foster social cohesion in a world on the move’. Upon approval, they are going to obtain a grant of $10,000 USD to implement their challenge, accompanied by ongoing coaching, peer-help, and mentorship.
• A Global Network and Lasting Impact: Participants may even acquire the chance to take part in a variety of actions to scale and institutionalise the influence of their work inside international coverage discussions, together with:
  • Access to a novel Global Alumni Network, providing ongoing alternate, studying, and alternatives;
  • Participation within the Global Youth Dialogue for Peace, a novel international discussion board bringing collectively Young Leaders with established resolution makers to help studying and finest observe sharing, present avenues for influencing coverage improvement, and reinforcing networks;
  • Access to UNESCO sources, toolkits, and methodologies for scaling finest practices;
  • Opportunities to contribute to the UNESCO Global Intercultural Action Observatory, a repository of insights and good practices to help ongoing coverage advocacy in favour of intercultural management for peace and cohesion.

Eligibility

To be eligible, candidates should: 

• Be between 25 and 45 years outdated as of September 1, 2025.
• Have a confirmed document of management of their area.
• Demonstrate a dedication to intercultural dialogue and social influence.
• Have the potential to affect and create change inside their communities.
• Be obtainable to take part in all parts of the programme. 

Community-led tasks should: 

• Align with the theme: ‘Learning to Collaborate for a Shared Future: Using dialogue to foster social cohesion in a world on the move’.
• Be capable of be applied inside six months.
• Be of native or nationwide scope.

Application

Interested candidates should full the net application kind and submit the required paperwork by June 22, 2025, 23:59 CET (Paris time).

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For extra info, go to Youth for Peace: UNESCO Intercultural Leadership Programme.