Call for Applications: BeChangeMaker Programme 2026 – YOA

Deadline: March 27, 2026

Applications are open for the BeChangeMaker Programme 2026. The standard programme is again with a landmark tenth version, celebrating a decade of serving to younger entrepreneurs speed up their enterprise concepts and switch their daring visions into actual-world impression.

BeChangeMaker is an initiative by WorldSkills and the HP Foundation, and is supported by UNESCO-UNEVOC. Since 2017, it has introduced collectively a whole bunch of younger individuals from throughout the globe, offering them with the instruments and platform to channel their abilities into enterprise concepts that deal with social and environmental challenges and advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Over the course of the programme, working from April to September, the 30 chosen groups could have entry to world-class studying content material by means of HP LIFE, tailor-made for entrepreneurs and innovators at each stage of their journey. Dedicated teaching and mentoring, mixed with connections to a worldwide community of potential supporters and traders, will give members every little thing they should take their concepts additional than they imagined.

The programme will culminate in a dwell pitch closing at WorldSkills Shanghai 2026, throughout WorldSkills Conference 2026, the place the highest 5 groups – chosen by means of a collection of on-line pitches – will current their concepts to a world viewers and compete for money prizes.

Apply to BeChangeMaker 2026 for an opportunity to be part of a group of innovators who share data and assist one another by means of an expertise that has launched careers and constructed lasting connections.

Eligibility

• You are eligible if you’re between 18 and 35 years outdated;
• Be pushed by a ardour for social or environmental change.

Application

• Put collectively a staff of as much as 5 individuals and choose a staff chief or be part of alone.
• Create a one-minute video introducing your staff and venture.
• Fill in the form

For extra data, go to BeChangeMaker.