DAV International South China Sea Conference Young Leaders Programme 2025 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: September 18, 2025

Applications are open for the DAV International South China Sea Conference Young Leaders Programme 2025. The International South China Sea Conference of the Diplomatic Academy of Viet Nam is a number one regional maritime safety discussion board held yearly, which gathers numerous outstanding students, practitioners and coverage-makers on geopolitics and maritime points. The convention collection is paneled by main specialists and attracts broad attendance by native and worldwide individuals. 

The Young Leaders Programme is an exercise beneath the Conference that gives a platform for the subsequent technology of leaders to interact with the advanced and multifaceted problems with the South China Sea, whereas equipping them with the abilities and information to not solely navigate challenges but in addition harness alternatives in pursuit of a peaceable and cooperative future for the area. They consider that younger folks possess the facility, functionality, mind, and resilience to come back collectively and make significant contributions towards this imaginative and prescient. Through this programme, they goal to create a vibrant area the place youth can share daring concepts, construct lasting connections, and achieve insights from main specialists to form a extra peaceable and cooperative South China Sea.

Programme Details

This 12 months’s Young Leaders Programme will characteristic a variety of actions designed to empower individuals and amplify their voices. Young Leaders will take part in particular periods similar to a livestream youth commentary, podcast recordings, and a Youth Academic Discussion Night with DAV Captains – excellent college students from the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam – and native youth from main universities throughout Vietnam.

The spotlight of the Programme is the devoted session “Youth Power: Overcoming Ambiguity, Strengthening Unity”, the place chosen individuals will current their very own analysis and views on the South China Sea, beneath the steerage of senior researchers from the organising committee. Just as importantly, Young Leaders can even be taught from and change concepts with senior figures by two distinctive alternatives: a working lunch with main specialists and an intergenerational dialogue with policymakers and students, fostering deeper connections throughout generations. By taking part in these actions, Young Leaders won’t solely achieve first-hand publicity to the debates at one of many world’s most prestigious conferences on the South China Sea, but in addition reveal that youth have the facility, mind, functionality, and resilience to form a extra peaceable and cooperative future for the area.

Benefits

• Full participation within the seventeenth South China Sea International Conference.
• Be a part of a community of worldwide students from prestigious assume-tanks, universities.
• Certificates of Attendance on the Conference for individuals.
• Being part of the South China Sea Conference Young Leaders Programme Alumni Network.
• The organisers will sponsor spherical-journey economic system class airfare, 3-night time lodging (from 2 to 4 November 2025), native transportation, and meals for the individuals.

Eligibility

• People aged between 20 and 35 (initially of the programme);
• Candidates should have the ability to use English fluently;
• Background information in political science, worldwide relations, worldwide regulation, and different social sciences.

Application

A complete of eight Young Leaders can be chosen from the candidates to attend the Conference. The deadline is eighteen September 2025 at 23.59 (GMT+7). Application varieties despatched after this time won’t be accepted. 

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