UNESCO Global Youth Hackathon 2025 – Win trip to Cartagena, Colombia – YOA

Deadline: September 1, 2025

Applications are open for the UNESCO Global Youth Hackathon 2025. The Youth Hackathon is a flagship initiative of UNESCO’s Global Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Week, empowering younger folks worldwide to deal with pressing challenges in immediately’s digital data panorama. These embody the rise of AI, the unfold of mis- and disinformation, on-line hate speech, platform dominance, and threats to data integrity.

Following the success of the 2024 version – which introduced collectively 202 groups from 68 international locations – UNESCO is gearing up for an much more impactful 2025 version. Under this yr’s theme, Youth Leading the Way: Building MIL options for Impact, UNESCO requires youth aged 18 to 30 to collaborate, innovate, and lead with their concepts.

Challenge Tracks

Teams can select a number of of the next focus areas:

• AI and MIL: Innovative options addressing challenges posed by AI via MIL
• MIL Education: Creative approaches to MIL studying within the digital age
• Community Impact: MIL-primarily based interventions that empower communities
• Youth Engagement: Strategies to place youth organizations as MIL change brokers
• Open Track: Other MIL-associated concepts aligned with this yr’s theme

Benefits

• All contributors will profit from free on-line mentoring by worldwide consultants earlier than the ultimate submission.
• Each successful workforce can choose 2 representatives to current the tasks on the Global MIL Week Conference on 23-24 October 2025 in Cartagena, Colombia – with flight and lodging coated by UNESCO.

Eligibility

UNESCO invites younger changemakers to be part of this international occasion:

• Teams of three–6 members (nationwide, regional, or worldwide)
• All workforce members have to be 18–30 years previous
• Teams ought to align with UNESCO’s values, together with peace, respect for range, and freedom of expression
• Gender stability and inclusion are extremely inspired
• No prior expertise required—solely ardour and motivation!

Application

• Fill in your workforce profile
• Fill within the primary undertaking data
• Upload your submission supplies, together with:
  • Proposal (Word or PDF, in English, max 10 MB)
  • Pitch video (up to 3 minutes) — add to any platform and share the accessible hyperlink

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to UNESCO.