Globethics Youth Leadership Award 2024

The first Globethics Youth Leadership Award is launched in their 20th Anniversary year to further that vision in the next 20 years by recognising, honouring and empowering young leaders from around the world striving for positive, ethical change in their community, institution, society, nation, region or even globally.

Young leaders are invited to apply for the Globethics Youth Leadership Award by telling what they are doing to promote and put ethics into practice in one or more of four areas that we have identified as ways of responding to today’s challenges worldwide.

Priorities

• Priority 1: Ethics and Standards in Higher Education
• Priority 2: Ethics of Sustainability and Environmental Justice
• Priority 3: Ethics of Digital and Emerging Technologies
• Priority 4: Ethics of Inclusive Peace and Responsible Governance

Young leaders (individuals or groups) aged between 18 and 30 years of age who have designed and implemented initiatives that have produced real, proven societal impact and positive change in areas related to one or more of the four Globethics priorities are eligible to apply for the Globethics Youth Leadership Award. Winning the Globethics Youth Leadership Award would give winners the opportunity to build on and develop their initiatives.

Award Information

• Award winners will achieve recognition for their pioneering work and receive financial and mentoring support to upscale and to multiply the results of their initiative.
  • 1st prize: USD 15,000
  • 2nd prize: USD 10,000
  • 3rd prize: USD 5,000
• All winners will also benefit from the support of a mentor for nine months.

Eligibility Criteria

• Are individuals or members of a group all aged between 18 and 30 years of age by the application deadline from anywhere in the world.
• Can be individuals or a group. In the case of a group application, a representative of the group would submit the application and eventually present on behalf of the group.
• Are the creators of their initiative and responsible for its implementation.

Criteria for Selection

• The jury are looking for applications from individuals and groups who have a values-based approach and are invested in serving the common good through initiatives that they are already involved in leading and would like to develop and grow further. The initiatives must be impactful, change-making related to one or more of the four Globethics priorities.   In addition, winners of the Award will be selected by the jury based on criteria including,
  • Contribution to achieving one or more of the Globethics priorities
  • Proven change made as a result of their initiative
  • Innovation in problem solving
  • Inclusive approach
  • Scalability and replicability

For more information, visit Globethics.