Deadline: May 1, 2025
Applications are open for the Z Zurich Foundation Scholarship to Attend the One Young World Summit 2025. The Z Zurich Foundation Scholarship 2025 will allow 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 2025, which takes place in Munich, Germany from 3 – 6 November.
If you are a young leader working to champion any of these causes, this scholarship could be for you.
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
Scholars will receive:
- Access to the One Young World Summit 2025 in Munich.
- 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
- Applicants should be aged 18 to 30 at the time of the One Young World Summit 2025.
- 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.
- Proven impact in a field aligned with the work of the Z Zurich Foundation namely:
- Improving Mental Wellbeing
- Enabling Social Equity
- Adapting to Climate Change
Application
For more information, visit Z Zurich Foundation Scholarship.
