British Council Study UK Alumni Awards 2026 – YOA

Deadline: October 16, 2025

Applications for the British Council Study UK Alumni Awards 2026 at the moment are open. Raise your worldwide profile, construct your skilled networks and enterprise connections, and win a visit to the UK: simply a few of the advantages of successful a prestigious Alumni Award.

The Study UK Alumni Awards recognise the excellent achievements of worldwide UK alumni worldwide. These awards honour worldwide leaders who’ve leveraged their UK schooling to make important contributions to their communities, industries, and international locations.

Categories

There are 4 award classes. These are:

• Business and Innovation Award: recognising alumni who’re energetic in initiating or contributing to revolutionary or artistic new concepts, options or enterprise alternatives, which have the potential for robust development.
• Culture, Creativity and Sport Award: Recognising alumni who’ve carved a profession for themselves in arts, tradition and sport. We are on the lookout for people who can show their creative ingenuity, affect and creativity.
• Science and Sustainability Award: recognising alumni who’ve distinguished themselves by their profession and achievements on this planet of science and sustainability, and who can show the influence and scale of their achievements of their career, and past.
• Social Action Award: recognising alumni who’ve made an distinctive contribution and dedication to creating constructive social change and bettering the lives of others.

Benefits

• All chosen award finalists profit from elevated PR and press alternatives that elevate their profile and share their success with worldwide audiences.
• Winners of the worldwide awards will probably be celebrated on a world scale and invited to the UK to re-join with their universities, meet with Study UK stakeholders and to assist the continued improvement of their careers.

Eligibility

• Open to alumni residing outdoors of the UK solely (restrictions might apply to British passport holders);
• Alumni should have studied:
  • throughout the final 15 years (i.e. 2010 – 2025).
  • enrolled at an formally recognised physique or acquired a recognised award from a UK greater schooling establishment.
  • at diploma degree or above (diploma degree is outlined as band 9 and above on the UK ENIC band framework)
  • both at a UK college within the UK, for no less than one time period or semester, OR awarded a full UK diploma degree qualification (or greater), awarded by a recognised UK HEI, of their home nation (Transnational Education – TNE/lengthy distance).
• Professional quick programs: alumni are solely eligible if the course they studied was at diploma degree (or above), provided by a recognised UK establishment within the UK (they usually fulfil the remainder of the factors).
• Post-doc researchers are ineligible.
• All candidates, besides international award winners, from the Alumni Awards in earlier years might re-apply in the event that they meet this 12 months’s eligibility standards. Winners from earlier nationwide degree awards will probably be thought-about for international awards solely.
• Applicants should not be at present employed by the British Council or Gradcore. Applicants should disclose if they’re an instantaneous member of the family of a British Council or Gradcore worker. (In this case instant member of the family is outlined as one’s partner, dad and mom, grandparents, kids, grandchildren, siblings and instant in-legal guidelines (mom-in-legislation, father-in-legislation, brother-in-legislation and sister-in-legislation). Adopted kids and stepchildren are additionally counted as instant members of the family.

Judging Criteria

All eligible functions will probably be assessed on the extent to which they meet the next 5 standards:

• Impact: proof of tangible influence, and scale of influence, of your work (impressed by your UK schooling) in your career/neighborhood/society.
• UK Influence: proof of how your UK schooling has performed a key affect in your success and influence.
• Media Traction: Extent to which your success story is prone to resonate with native/regional/nationwide media in your nation of entry, or past (international media).
• Potential to Influence and Inspire: Extent to which (together with capability and willingness) you and your story are prone to affect and encourage the following era of potential internationally cellular college students in your nation of entry to decide on the UK as their study vacation spot.
• Quality of Application

Application

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For extra info, go to Study UK Alumni Awards.