Effie Lions Foundation Voices of the Future Global Fellowship 2027 (Fully-funded to France) – YOA

Deadline: November 22, 2026

Applications are open for the Voices of the Future Fellowship by Effie Lions Foundation. Voices of the Future is a totally funded, eight-month international fellowship that offers the subsequent era the actual-world expertise, abilities, and relationships wanted to launch a profession in advertising and marketing.

This free, eight-month international fellowship is designed to give college students the actual-world expertise, abilities, and relationships wanted to launch a profession in advertising and marketing. Fellows be taught straight from business leaders, sort out an actual-world advertising and marketing transient, and obtain a totally paid journey the 2027 Cannes LIONS International Festival of Creativity in France.

Early-career advertising and marketing has a lacking center: the supported house between schooling and full skilled accountability the place college students be taught by doing. As entry-stage alternatives shrink and AI reshapes how early-profession expertise learns, entry to actual-world expertise, mentorship, suggestions, {and professional} networks is extra vital than ever. Voices of the Future connects college students with a world neighborhood of business leaders invested in serving to them be taught, develop, and form what’s subsequent.

Applications are open to eligible undergraduate and postgraduate college students graduating in 2027.

Benefits

2027 Fellows will:  

• Learn future-prepared abilities in advertising and marketing, technique, creativity, management, and AI 
• Tackle an actual-world business problem, following the Effie Effectiveness in Marketing Framework™
• Learn to construct significant skilled relationships via one-to-one mentorship
• Attend the Cannes LIONS International Festival of Creativity
• Build lasting relationships with an in depth-knit, international cohort 
• Access networks to pursue work placement and employment alternatives 

There is not any value to take part in Fellowship actions.  

Eligibility

Applicants should be:

• In their ultimate yr of full-time study at a registered submit-secondary schooling establishment
• Interested in pursuing a profession in advertising and marketing
• Naturally curious with a robust progress mindset
• Willing to be taught, contribute, and apply new abilities in a bunch or particular person setting
• Confidently ready to talk in English
• 18 years outdated or older by March 1, 2027

Prior work or internship expertise will not be required!

The fellowship is open to people of all races, sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, religions, backgrounds, and talents.

Applications

Time Commitment

• Weekly studying actions (~4 hours per week)
• Regular digital conferences
• A minimal of 4 mentor conferences
• In-person participation at the Cannes LIONS Festival of Creativity

The Fellowship runs from February to September.

All candidates should submit a(n):

• Completed on-line application type
• Three-minute video
• Letter of suggestion
• Academic enrollment verification
• Full CV/resume

The application takes about 3 – 5 hours to full.

Click here to apply.

For extra info, go to Effie Lions Foundation.