What is a One Young World Scholarship?
One Young World scholarships open doors for extraordinary young changemakers to join the One Young World Summit and global Community, fully funded. These fully funded leadership scholarships cover travel, accommodation, and meals so your ability to make an impact is never limited by financial constraints.
Our latest scholarship opportunities
From worldwide initiatives to regional programmes, we offer scholarships for young changemakers and scholarships for social impact leaders working on today’s most urgent challenges. Be sure to check eligibility requirements before applying.
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Our Scholars
Our scholars demonstrate proven leadership ability, creating change in their communities. Many of our scholars are changing the world at the grassroots level, some are top-performing industry professionals, while others are paving the way politically in their countries.
I'm still in touch with so many other people that I met at the Summit and always get advice from them. After the Summit, we got the funding from my sponsor, the Z Zurich Foundation, which was really important for us to see the business grow as well.
We brought Deloitte aboard the Advisory Educators Roundtable, and the industry perspectives they’ve brought to educators on topics like the green and digital economies has been invaluable.
It was really important for us to have One Young World showing and recruiting people and to have this partnership with Audi because this project, this relationship with Audi, helped us to reach more communities in the Amazon rainforest in 2022. And this project was so successful that now Audi supported us this year and we also made another installation in another isolated island near São Paulo, and we are planning more projects in the future.
Who funds One Young World scholarship programmes?
We partner with civil society organisations, governments, businesses, universities, and philanthropies to make these fully funded leadership scholarships possible — ensuring the brightest minds have the platform they deserve.
FAQs
If you have questions about the application process, take a look at our scholarship FAQs
One Young World’s annual Summit convenes the brightest young talent from every country and sector. Each year, we run a number of One Young World scholarships and grants for young leaders, making it possible for those shaping the future to attend the Summit fully funded.
Our scholarship programmes means that the best and brightest young leaders from around the world are able to attend our Summit fully funded, from beginning to end including travel, catering and accommodation, regardless of their financial circumstances.
Most scholarships cover the costs of:
- Access to the One Young World Summit.
- Hotel accommodation on a shared basis for the duration of the Summit.
- Catering which includes breakfast, lunch, and dinner for the duration of the Summit.
- The cost of travel to and from the Summit location.
Please remember to thoroughly review your acceptance form for full details of what is included in your scholarship place.
Each scholarship programme has its own set of eligibility criteria. Please check these before applying.
Yes! You may apply for more than one scholarship but you can only be selected to win one scholarship. Once accepted by one scholarship, you will no longer be eligible to be considered for another.
Yes you can. Our scholarship places are open to all, though please note that priority will be given to first-time Summit attendees (not One Young World Ambassadors). This is because One Young World is committed to ensuring that the opportunity to attend the Summit is available to as many people as possible, regardless of their ability to pay.
You can also attend the One Young World Summit as an Independent Delegate by paying the Returning Ambassador fee.
We will send individual emails to all applicants - regardless of whether they have been shortlisted or not - informing them of the outcome. Unfortunately, we are not able to respond to individual emails enquiring about the status of individual scholarship applications.
One Young World receives an overwhelming number of applications for each scholarship programme so we are afraid that it is simply not possible to give individual feedback to each applicant.
We're sorry to hear that you were not selected for a scholarship. Please do not be discouraged; we regularly add new scholarships to our scholarships page so please apply for any other scholarships you would like to be considered for. If you are ultimately not selected for a scholarship, you could consider attending the Summit independently.
If you’re considering applying for one of our scholarships, we recommend you read our application guidance before you write your application.
Read our guide to making a successful scholarship application