DSM: Resources & Circularity Scholarship to attend the One Young Summit 2019 in London, UK (Fully-funded)

Posted by Opportunity Desk On April 23, 2019 0 Comment

Deadline: May 15, 2019

Applications are open for the DSM: Resources & Circularity Scholarship 2019. As a longstanding partner of One Young World, DSM is proud to provide the Resources & Circularity Scholarship in light of the 2019 Summit in London.

DSM’s purpose is to create brighter lives for people today and generations to come. They connect their unique competencies in Life Sciences and Material Sciences to create solutions that nourish, protect and improve performance. With the Resources & Circularity Scholarship DSM will offer three scholarships to young leaders around the world, who are working to further the transition from a linear to a circular and/or bio-based economy.

The scholarship focuses on DSM’s purpose-driven domain, Resources & Circularity. DSM’s ambition is to safeguard the future availability of natural resources, and to unlock more value from the limited resources that are available. In order to reach this two-fold goal, DSM focuses on five circularity drivers to design and manufacture its solutions:

Reduce the use of critical resources
Replace scarce, hazardous and potentially harmful resources with renewable and safer alternatives
Extend the lifetime of products
Design for recyclability
Recover waste streams

Scholarship

Access to the One Young World Summit 2019 in London, United Kingdom
The cost of travel to and from London (economy flights only)
Hotel accommodation on a shared basis from 21-25 October inclusive
Catering which includes breakfast, lunch and dinner, during these days
Transport between the Summit accommodation and the Summit venue
Summit hand-outs and support materials
Participation in DSM’s internal on-boarding program, both online and face to face prior to the Summit, which includes mentorship with DSM senior experts

If you are selected, you are invited by DSM to participate in a pre-program at the DSM headquarters in the Netherlands. Please note that the pre-program will run from Saturday 19 until Tuesday 22 October. Furthermore, you will have a debriefing day after the summit on Saturday 26 of October.

Eligibility

In line with DSM’s ambition to enable the transition to a circular and bio-based economy, this scholarship seeks to support young leaders and entrepreneurs who are making an impact on circularity and addressing resources with their ideas, start-up companies, or other projects and initiatives. Preferably they have 3-5 years of experience in the field.
Specifically, the scholarship seeks candidates who are making a positive impact on accelerating the transition towards a circular and/or bio-based economy in one (or more) of the following ways:
- Materials innovation & design: redesigning, or designing new materials by addressing any one (or more) of DSM’s five circularity drivers as outlined above – Reduce, Replace, Extend, Design, Recover
- Entrepreneurship: contributing to circularity by implementing new business models in the following markets: Buildings (including interior) & construction, Textiles, Heavy Marine & Fishing industry, Electronics, Automotive, Food packaging, 3D printing
- Advocacy and shaping opinions: raising awareness and having a leading voice in the transition towards a circular & bio-based economy
- Clean up initiatives: driving clean up initiatives on waste, by not only cleaning up but also by viewing waste as a resource
- Digitalization: using new technologies to support radical transparency, and to keep materials at their highest utility and value
Candidates must be:
- Aged 18 – 30
- Young leaders from non-profit, community organizations or social enterprises
- Nationals of all countries will be eligible to apply for this scholarship