Swedish Institute Academy for Young Professionals (SAYP) Eastern Europe 2025 – YOA

Deadline: August 26, 2025

Applications are open for the Swedish Institute Academy for Young Professionals (SAYP) Eastern Europe 2025. SI Academy for Young Professionals is a coaching programme on the Swedish Institute that goals to empower younger professionals from international locations inside the EU’s Eastern Partnership with expertise, networks and inspiration to have the ability to implement and drive change work of their respective organisations and home international locations. The lengthy-time period goal of the programme is to contribute to strengthened democratic governance and EU integration for international locations inside the EU’s Eastern Partnership.

Within SAYP, a lot of completely different thematic programmes are carried out yearly by the organisers who’ve been granted venture funding for this goal by SI. The programmes deliver collectively teams of contributors and work to strengthen their competence in topics which have bearing on urgent societal points and challenges, linked to the general objective of SAYP.

Benefits

SAYP provides you with:

• OPPORTUNITY to develop your skilled expertise
• Tools to apply in your individual organisations and native contexts
• Experience of cross-sectorial work setting
• Personal {and professional} community
• Membership within the SI Alumni Network
• Exclusive entry to instruments for continued studying

Eligibility

You can apply to SAYP for those who:

• Are a citizen of or resident in one of many following international locations: Armenia, Azerbaijan*, Belarus*, Georgia*, Moldova, Ukraine;
• Have an excellent command of English, each spoken and written;
• Have a related greater schooling (at the least three years of study);
• Are between 25 – 40 (born 1985 – 2000);
• Are at present employed in one of many following teams:
  • Policymakers (politicians, authorities officers, workers of political events)
  • Public servants (non-political civil servants working at public organisations)
  • Civil society employees (CSO/NGO workers)
  • Leaders inside the non-public sector
• Have the mandate, ambition and potential to drive change inside your organisation and home nation
• Your skilled profile is related for the thematic content material of the module of your alternative.

*Belarus, Azerbaijan, Georgia can solely obtain contributors from civil society

Application

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to SAYP.