GYM Youth Empowerment Fund (YEF) 2026 – YOA

Deadline: March 31, 2026

Applications for the GYM Youth Empowerment Fund (YEF) 2026 are actually open. Youth Empowerment Fund (YEF), a partnership between the European Union (EU) and the Global Youth Mobilization (GYM), an initiative of the Big Six Youth Organisations (Big Six), supplies direct monetary assist for youth-led initiatives specializing in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals on the native stage.

The Youth Empowerment Fund additionally goals to achieve younger individuals from below-represented backgrounds, together with these going through challenges regarding their socio-financial background, gender, incapacity, marginalization, local weather change, and extra. Hence, many Youth-Led Solutions assist younger individuals and their communities in overcoming these conditions of vulnerability.

Benefits

• Access to Funding: The Youth Empowerment Fund seeks to interrupt down obstacles to funding to youth initiatives and organisations and interact, empower and join younger individuals to create native options to the world’s greatest challenges. An particular person particular person or a casual group of younger individuals can apply to get small scale micro-grants for his or her tasks between 500-1500 EUR, whereas registered youth-led group might apply for funding as much as 5000 EUR.
• Capacity Building Opportunities: In addition to funding, they supply profitable undertaking awardees with capability constructing alternatives reminiscent of workshops, entry to neighborhood of youth specialists and steerage for his or her undertaking implementation journey.
• There can also be the possibility for excellent undertaking groups to hitch an Accelerator Program to scale up their concepts. The Accelerator Program provides extra funding alternatives, entry to a world community of youth management, intensive coaching, assist from specialists, and different alternatives to scale tasks additional.

Eligibility

• Open to younger individuals aged 14 to 30 from eligible nations.
• Eligible tasks must be addressing international challenges aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Application

Applications for the Youth Empowerment Fund are actually open till 31 March 2026, 23:59 hours UTC.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to GYM Youth Empowerment Fund.