Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Enterprising Futures Scholarship to Attend One Young World Summit 2026 (Fully-funded to Cape Town) – YOA

Deadline: March 9, 2026

Applications are open for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Enterprising Futures Scholarship 2026. They invite younger entrepreneurs who’re main scalable begin-ups and small to medium-sized enterprises, with social or environmental influence.

By 2030, greater than two billion younger folks around the globe shall be shaping the long run of their economies. This presents an thrilling OPPORTUNITY for innovation, entrepreneurship, and sustainable progress, particularly in rising and frontier markets. Young entrepreneurs are already on the forefront of this transformation, constructing companies that reply to native challenges and create lasting influence of their communities.

Entrepreneurs play an important function in strengthening native economies. By creating new services and products, rising modern enterprise concepts, and increasing into new markets, they assist create extra resilient and dynamic enterprise environments. However, many younger entrepreneurs nonetheless face boundaries reminiscent of restricted entry to networks, assets, and worldwide publicity.

To assist handle these challenges, the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, via the Dutch Enterprise Agency (RVO), companions with One Young World to provide an annual scholarship for younger entrepreneurs and enterprise leaders. The scholarship is designed to help promising changemakers who’re constructing scalable options to sustainability challenges and are prepared to take their influence to the subsequent degree by connecting with a world group.

Scholarship recipients will attend the One Young World Summit 2026 in Cape Town, the place 2,000 younger leaders from over 190 international locations come collectively to share concepts, be taught from world consultants, and collaborate on options to right now’s most urgent challenges. The Summit presents an inspiring atmosphere to develop professionally, strengthen entrepreneurial abilities, and construct significant worldwide connections that may help lengthy-time period success.

Benefits

Enterprising Futures Scholars will obtain:

• Access to extra occasions organised by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, together with the pre-programme.
• Access to the One Young World Summit 2026, going down from 3 – 6 November in Cape Town, South Africa.
• Access to the One Young World Global Leadership Programme, Action Accelerator and lifelong membership to the One Young World Ambassador Community.
• Hotel lodging for the period of the pre-programme and Summit dates.
• One night time of resort lodging (if required) for the visa application course of.
• Return journey out of your nation of residence to Cape Town (flights in financial system).
• Domestic journey prices to the airport to take the worldwide flight.
• Visa prices, if relevant (together with visa application payment and required journey for visa appointment).
• Catering which incorporates breakfast, lunch and dinner all through the pre-programme and the Summit.
• Transport between the Summit lodging and the Summit venue.

Eligibility

Candidates should be:

• Aged 18 – 35 by the date of the One Young World Summit 2026 in November.
• Leading or part of a scalable begin-up or small to medium-sized enterprise (SME), with demonstratable social and/or environmental influence, both as an entrepreneur or related function.
• Nationals of and residents of one of the next international locations:
  • Ethiopia
  • Jordan
  • Lebanon
  • Mozambique
  • Uganda
  • Tunisia
  • Palestine
  • Egypt
  • Côte d’Ivoire
  • Kenya
  • Morocco
  • Nigeria
  • Senegal
  • Benin
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Ghana
  • South Africa
  • Burundi
  • Iraq (together with Kurdistan area of Iraq)
  • Sudan
  • Mali
  • Algeria
• All candidates shall be required to have a working understanding of English, as each the One Young World Summit and Enterprising Futures pre- and publish-programmes shall be held in English.
• Candidates should be obtainable to be part of the programme full time between 30 October – 7 November, in addition to pre- and publish-programme dates.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Enterprising Futures Scholarship.