Deadline: May 1, 2024
Applications are open for the Brighter Living Scholarship to Attend One Young World Summit 2024. The Brighter Living Foundation is proud to offer four impactful young leaders the opportunity to participate in the One Young World Summit 2024, which takes place in Montréal, Canada. The Brighter Living Foundation | One Young World Scholarship will support young entrepreneurs who are making a local or global impact in creating a positive societal impact in the following areas ‘Climate & Nature’, ‘Nutrition & Health’, and ‘Social’.
Focus Areas
Climate & Nature: Candidates applying for the scholarship through this focus area should be actively making an impact to decrease the environmental footprint of local and global agri-food or beauty products production systems. Candidates might demonstrate this impact by:
- Shaping opinions: advocating for systemic change, by making the case for greater education around the environmental impact of food systems so that consumers, governments, and companies can make more sustainable food choices.
- Walking the talk: reducing emissions related to human food and animal feed or beauty products production or working with partners in supporting farmers to do so or helping to reduce loss and waste. This could include creating more transparency of environmental impacts through consumer information, it could relate to greenhouse gas emissions, land use, biodiversity, and water use. It can also include digital tools throughout the value chain or on the farm.
- Producing locally: sustainably producing local produce or nutritional products to serve local communities.
Nutrition & Health: Candidates applying for the scholarship through this focus area should be actively working to increase the availability of high-quality affordable and aspirational nutritious foods in low and middle-income countries.
- Shaping opinions: raising awareness of the importance of a balanced and nutritional diets, so that consumers, governments, and companies can make healthier food choices. This may include, but not extensively, scaling up large scale fortification of staples (rice, corn, wheat) and foods with vitamins and minerals.
- Building brands: developing responsible and nutritious brands which are aspirational, affordable, and accessible for the most vulnerable who need them most, (especially those with low income, at base of pyramid (BoP).
- Producing locally: sustainably producing local produce or nutritional products to serve local communities.
Social: Candidates applying for the scholarship through this focus area should be actively making an impact to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers. Candidates might demonstrate this impact by:
- Shaping opinions: advocating for systemic change, by making the case for greater education around the social impact and equitable livelihoods so that consumers, governments, and companies can make fairer choices.
- Walking the talk: through just sourcing principles and partnerships, strive for equality and aim to ensure sustainable value chains that contribute to local development and provide appropriate incomes for workers and farmers.
Scholarship
Scholars will receive
- Full delegate access to the One Young World Summit 2024 in Montréal/Tiohtià:ke, Canada from 18-21 September.
- Participation in The Brighter Living Foundation pre-Summit programme on 16 and 17 September and post-Summit programme on 22 September.
- Hotel accommodation in Montréal between 15 and 22 (inclusive) September.
- Catering for the duration of the event.
- Return air travel.
- Permanent membership to the One Young World Ambassador Community.
Eligibility
- Age 18-30
- Reside in Africa, Latin America, Asia-Pacific
- 3-5 years’ experience in agri-food or beauty business (preferably self-owned business)
- Are making a positive impact in one of the three scholarship focus areas. See below for more information on the focus areas.
- Availability to travel to Canada to participate in the One Young World Summit 2024 including the Brighter Living Foundation Scholarship 2024 pre and post Summit programmes. Selected scholars will need to be present in Montréal from 15 – 23 September.
Application
For more information, visit Brighter Living Scholarship.
