Deadline: 1 May 2025
The One Young World is thrilled to invite applications for its Z Zurich Foundation Scholarship Program allowing 25 young leaders working on prevention-focused mental well-being projects, adaptation-focused climate resilience projects or projects enabling social equity through education, employability or entrepreneurship solutions to participate in the One Young World Summit.
The Z Zurich Foundation creates brighter futures for vulnerable people. Prevention is at the forefront of their work. Their three pillars – adapting to climate change, improving mental well-being, and enabling social equity are increasingly urgent, complex issues that have far-reaching impacts on individuals, communities and society as a whole.
Focus Areas
- They are seeking young leaders actively driving grassroots initiatives for vulnerable communities in one or more of the following areas:
- Adapting to Climate Change: Initiatives that help communities adapt to climate change and build climate resilience. Climate change adaptation focuses on transforming behaviors, systems, and ways of life to protect communities from the impacts of climate change.
- Improving Mental Wellbeing: Initiatives focused on prevention and/or promotion of youth mental wellbeing. Promotion fosters enabling environments that enhance young people’s emotional wellbeing, while prevention focuses on identifying and mitigating risk factors for mental health conditions.
- Enabling Social Equity: Initiatives tackling barriers to education, employment, and/or entrepreneurship by equipping young people with the resources, knowledge, and skills needed to unlock their potential.
Benefits
- Access to the One Young World Summit 2025 in Munich, Germany from 3 – 6 November.
- Access to additional scholarship programming organised by Z Zurich Foundation. This programming is likely to include pre and post-One Young World Summit sessions, including opportunities to meet and learn with the wider Z Zurich Foundation delegation, and an impact-focused development day pre-Summit.
- Hotel accommodation in Montréal between 1 – 6 November (inclusive).
- Return air travel.
- Catering which includes breakfast, lunch and dinner.
- Ground transportation between Summit venues in Munich.
Eligibility Criteria
- Aged 18 to 30 at the time of the One Young World Summit
- Passion for local and global issues
- Demonstrated commitment to creating positive change
- Willingness to engage and collaborate with fellow scholarship recipients and Zurich Insurance Group employees who are also attending the Summit.
For more information, visit One Young World.
