One Young World Leading the Americas Scholarship 2024 (Fully-funded)

This informs the public about the One Young World Leading the Americas Scholarship 2024. Details about the Program are given below. One Young World is the global community for young leaders. It inspires young leaders to increase their social impact, builds their skills and capacity, and elevates their local and global profiles.

One Young World Leading the Americas Scholarship 2024

The annual One Young World Summit convenes 2,000 young leaders from 190+ countries to develop solutions to the world’s big challenges. They connect, share learnings, and are inspired by political, business and humanitarian leaders such as Justin Trudeau, Paul Polman and Mary Robinson.

Program Details

Delegates return to their communities and organisations as One Young World Ambassadors with the connections, insights, and motivation to act, accessing the global community of 15,500+ young leaders to accelerate existing social impact initiatives or establish new ventures.

One Young World strives to identify the most impactful young leaders from every country in the world. Scholarships provide the opportunity for exceptional young people to attend on the merit of their proven leadership and ability to create change in their home country. Leading The Americas is an initiative designed to ensure that outstanding young people from The Americas are represented at One Young World Summits.

Eligibility

You are eligible for sponsorship if you:

  • Are between the ages of 18 – 30*
  • Have an evidenced commitment to delivering positive change
  • Demonstrate capacity for leadership
  • Are you addressing key local and/or global issues in your work
  • Have a track record of generating impactful and innovative ideas
  • Are a national (passport holding citizen) of one of the countries listed below:
Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Bahamas Barbados
Belize Bolivia Brazil Canada
Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba
Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador
Grenada Guatemala Guyana Haiti
Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua
Panama Paraguay Peru Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and The Grenadines Suriname Trinidad and Tobago
United States Uruguay Venezuela

Most delegates are between the age of 18 and 30. The One Young World team will consider applications from those who are older than 30, pending demonstration of appropriate personal impact, initiative, and willingness to engage. We are not able to accept applications from those who will be aged under 18 at the time of the Summit.

How to Apply

For those interested in the One Young World Leading the Americas Scholarship 2024. Open this link to start the application process. The strongest applicants will be shortlisted by mid-May 2024. You will be contacted individually by a member of the One Young World team if you have been shortlisted.

Please note:

  • We cannot guarantee any applicant that they will be shortlisted or that we will secure sponsorship for any shortlisted applicant.
  • Priority will be given to applicants from countries that have been less represented at previous One Young World Summits.
  • Priority will also be given to first-time Summit attendees (not OYW Ambassadors).
  • Due to the overwhelming amount of applications we receive, One Young World is unable to respond to individual emails enquiring about the outcome of the Leading The Americas selection process.
  • We do not provide feedback as to why candidates are not selected.

Application Deadline

  • The deadline for receipt of applications is 9 April 2024.

Open this link for more details about One Young World Leading the Americas Scholarship 2024.

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