Women@Dior & UNESCO Education and Mentorship Program 2026 – YOA

Deadline: December 31, 2025

Applications are open for the Women@Dior & UNESCO Education and Mentorship Program 2026. Women@Dior & UNESCO is a singular worldwide mentoring and schooling Program devoted to younger girls, constructed on Maison Dior’s distinctive experience of transmission and its group of motivated and inspiring Talents.

Launched in 2017, the Program has now supported over 2800 pushed younger girls chosen from a variety of research – from enterprise to engineering, artwork and vogue, to hospitality, communication and worldwide relations and extra. To date, Mentees have spanned over 60+ nations and signify virtually 90 nationalities.

Through their instructional choices, Mentees are guided by visionary leaders and esteemed visitor audio system who delve into important topics reminiscent of gender parity and girls’s management, that pave the best way for accountable futures. Additionally, Mentees obtain customized assist from their devoted Dior Mentors, navigating the early levels of their skilled journey and embarking on skilled exploration. Each Mentee and Mentor dynamic is thoughtfully curated, leveraging an modern method that underscores compatibility and shared aspirations.

Benefits

• Mentorship: By becoming a member of the Program, it is possible for you to to profit from customized assist from a Dior (Mentor) and are invited to create a robust relationship with them to take the lead in defining your profession and constructing your community. Each Mentee/Mentor duo shares a singular relationship and is matched via an modern method primarily based on their compatibility (300 Dior Talents are mobilized annually).
• Education Platform: The Women@Dior & UNESCO Education Platform is a devoted area the place Mentees observe the Program’s on-line programs. Designed to foster private and skilled progress, this platform empowers Mentees to thrive and excel of their journeys. Access +16 programs led by prestigious professors and unique visitor audio system on the core values of the Program: Self-Care & Self-Awareness, Autonomy, Creativity, Inclusion & Sustainable Development.
• The Inspiring Interview Series: Mentees have entry to an Inspiring Interview Series that includes prestigious leaders and mates of LVMH, Maison Dior and UNESCO, interviewed by leaders of the Maison Dior and Mentees themselves on varied subjects associated to fairness, variety, and inclusion.
• The Dream for Change Project: Following the net programs and inspiring interviews, Mentees take part within the “Dream for Change Project.” In small teams, Mentees create and develop a concrete challenge proposal that empowers girls and ladies and contributes to fixing an actual-world problem.
• Sisterhood: Women@Dior & UNESCO group stays lively through the yr via on-line and in individual occasions and actions to foster connection and rejoice the ability of sisterhood between Mentees.

Eligibility

• Be at present enrolled full-time in the next schooling establishment, beneath the age of 30 years outdated by the point of the application.
• Either undergraduate college students within the last yr of their diploma or present postgraduate college students (Master’s, PhD).
• From any space of study are welcome, so long as they exhibit a robust curiosity in girls’s empowerment and associated points.
• Proficient in written and spoken English (B2 or above), as it’s the official language of the Program. This will guarantee efficient participation in Program actions, together with mentorship, and challenge improvement.
• The Program is barely open to candidates who haven’t beforehand participated within the Women@Dior & UNESCO Program.

Application

To apply, submit a latest CV and letter of motivation of not more than 600 phrases together with proof of enrollment if you’re a part of a Partner School or UNESCO Partner Institution.

Be positive to reply the next questions in your letter of motivation:

• What is your motivation in making use of to the Women@Dior & UNESCO Program and how do you propose to make use of this Program to realize your objectives?
• What difficulty(s) associated to girls’s empowerment are you keen about, and why?
• Describe a challenge you’ve led that helps girls’s empowerment? What was your influence?

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For extra info, go to Women@Dior & UNESCO.