Pernod Ricard Scholarship to Attend the One Young World Summit 2026 (Fully-funded) – YOA

Deadline: July 14, 2026

Applications are open for the Pernod Ricard Scholarship to Attend the One Young World Summit 2026. This scholarship is for younger leaders tackling the dangerous impacts of extreme alcohol consumption and selling secure, balanced and constructive social events.

The scholarship will establish and join an interdisciplinary group of 10 dedicated younger leaders who’re working to construct constructive social areas and deal with dangerous ingesting and its wider impacts of their nations and communities. Scholars will obtain full funding to take part in the One Young World Summit 2026 which takes place in Cape Town, South Africa from 3 – 6 November.

Scholars will take part in the Summit as members of Pernod Ricard’s delegation, have alternatives to assist form our interventions at the occasion and obtain knowledgeable mentorship to speed up their initiatives. In addition, students will take part in put up Summit collective pondering periods to mirror on the way forward for socialising.

Scholarship

• Participation in the One Young World Summit 2026 in Cape Town as a Pernod Ricard delegate.
• Hotel lodging in Cape Town between 2 – 6 November (inclusive) 2026.
• The value of journey to and from Cape Town (flights in economic system)
• Catering which incorporates breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
• Transport between the Summit lodging and the Summit venue.
• Access to Pernod Ricard professionals of their discipline on the foundation of wants & consultancy.
• Collaborate with different students to affect Pernod Ricard’s pondering on socialising and efforts to cut back extreme alcohol consumption. Make your voice heard by the collective periods with visitor audio system.

Post-Summit Participation

All students shall be invited to take part in put up summit collective pondering periods to assist focus on in additional element the challenges and options for selling accountable ingesting globally. These periods may also embrace exterior visitor audio system on the completely different matters and supply a platform for students to share their very own concepts, experiences and suggestions in addition to search recommendation and inspiration for their very own work. 

The topic of those periods will mirror the themes of the scholarship and embrace:  

• Promoting stability: How can we promote stability in social gatherings and nudge people in the direction of extra accountable behaviours? 
• Social connections inside communities: How can we additional convey individuals collectively in the present social local weather and create moments of celebration / togetherness while combating isolation and exclusion? 
• Role of the hospitality sector: what’s the function of the hospitality sector in creating secure and inclusive areas for individuals to come collectively, thereby combating isolation?
• Culture and society: What is the function of celebrations, and partying in our society in the future and what’s the function of alcohol on this? How can we make sure that these social interactions and moments of togetherness are secure, accountable and inclusive? What does convivialité imply & what is going to it appear like in the future?
• The function of prevention throughout these interactions: What initiatives will be developed to guarantee social gatherings are secure for all? How can accountability and prevention be built-in into social gatherings in a constructive manner? How can prevention programmes have extra affect? 
• Gen Z & their affect: How can this era outline a brand new tradition of ingesting and partying? What is their function and affect on this? 

Successful candidates have to be in a position to display their potential and curiosity in contributing to the collective pondering periods. This time dedication will contain: 1-2 group periods earlier than the Summit in November (between September & November), a bodily assembly collectively in Cape Town alongside the Summit and a couple of – 3 conferences post-Summit throughout the 12 months following the Summit. 

As nicely as this, further periods for mentoring and consultancy will be added based mostly on the wants of the scholar and alternatives out there inside the Pernod Ricard community. 

Eligibility

• Successful candidates will share the ambition to encourage constructive social events and deal with dangerous ingesting. They shall be actively making an affect in assist of those targets by their very own tasks, as rising leaders in bigger organisations, by their very own work and expertise, or by contributing to collective understanding by analysis. 
• This can embrace individuals working in the hospitality sector (bartenders, bar managers, restaurant homeowners, and many others) who’re energetic on accountable ingesting, stability, moderation, or shopper data, or have initiatives combating dangerous or extreme ingesting. It may also embrace these contributing to different fields, who’re engaged on creating inclusive and secure areas for individuals to come collectively.

Relevant actions embrace:

• Initiatives that intention to promote stability and moderation.
• Prevention and schooling initiatives that intention to cut back extreme alcohol consumption.
• Prevention initiatives that intention to cut back social hurt. 
• Projects that deal with the dangerous impacts of extreme alcohol consumption.
• Projects that encourage the bringing collectively of communities, the savoir être of being collectively and academic initiatives round social inclusion and combating isolation. 
• Projects that enhance bodily and psychological security in social environments.
• Research into habits and the behavioural patterns of Gen Z, tendencies in socializing, together with the function of alcohol on this socializing.

In addition, candidates should:

• Be of authorized ingesting age of their nation of residence at the time of their application.
• Available to commit to contribute to collective post-Summit pondering periods alongside different scholarship recipients.

Application

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For extra data, go to Pernod Ricard Scholarship.