Community Leadership and Advocacy Training

Deadline: 6 Dec 2024

What is this opportunities? 

The 7-month program focuses on developing community leaders and advocates. It covers essential topics like development processes, human rights, environmental standards, and corporate accountability. The program also provides practical guidance on engaging with global institutions like the UN and financial institutions, as well as national and regional bodies like human rights commissions.

The curriculum emphasizes using storytelling and legal strategies to address human rights abuses linked to large-scale development projects, such as land rights violations, environmental damage, and social impacts. The program specifically trains participants in advocacy skills, including campaign planning, stakeholder engagement, media outreach, and community mobilization.

2025 YSEALI Regional Workshop, AI FutureMakers: Innovating for a better future

Deadline: Nov 3, 2024

What is this opportunities? 

A 6-day intensive workshop in Chonburi, Thailand, and a series of online sessions will train 60 young leaders, social entrepreneurs, and tech enthusiasts from Southeast Asia and Timor-Leste. This program aims to deepen their understanding of AI, provide hands-on experience in AI project development, and empower them to tackle societal issues like economic empowerment, civic engagement, education, and environmental sustainability. By connecting with other young leaders and experts, participants will build a network focused on using AI for positive social and developmental impact in the region.

USAID Diversity and Inclusion Scholarship Program

Deadline:  Nov 22, 2024

Diversity and Inclusion Scholarship Program offers financial aid to students from underrepresented backgrounds who demonstrate academic excellence and a commitment to promoting diversity and inclusion in their communities.

 Degrees Offered

• Associate degrees (in-person in Indonesia and the Philippines).
• Master’s degrees (in-person in Cambodia, the Philippines and Thailand).
• Online master’s degrees with the University of Arizona, USA. 

Non-Degrees Offered

• Online graduate certificate courses with the University of Arizona, USA.
• Online short-term certificate courses with the University of Arizona, USA. 

ADB-Japan Scholarship Program (JSP)

Deadline: at least six (6) months before the commencement of the intake

The ADB-Japan Scholarship Program (JSP) offers about 135 graduate scholarships a year for studies in economics, business and management, science and technology, and other development-related fields.

Master's Degree in the following areas

• Science and Technology
• Economics, Business and Management
• Development Studies
• Law and Public Policy

MOUNTAINTOP STANDARD FELLOWSHIP

Deadline:  8 Nov 2024

The standard Mountaintop Fellowship is a paid, one-year, full-time fellowship for the most promising local leaders to stay in or return to their home communities and contribute to systems change in lower-income places around the world. Mountaintop’s Fellows receive a $3,600 grant, fully paid two week leadership institute hosted at Harvard University's Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, 1:1 mentorship, additional grant opportunities, and a lifelong community of inspiring peers to accelerate their leadership journeys and prepare them for large-scale impact to transform their communities and countries.

Global Korea Scholarship for Undergraduate Degrees

Deadline: 2 Oct 2024

The Global Korea Scholarship aka GKS Scholarship 2025 offers international students the chance to study at top universities in Korea, helping them pursue academic degrees while promoting global educational exchange and fostering stronger friendships between Korea and participating nations.

Kellogg Institute for International Studies Visiting Fellowships

Deadline: October 1, 2024

Since 1983, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies has offered visiting fellowships to promote interdisciplinary international research in a supportive community of scholars. This widely respected residential program offers you time to pursue scholarly inquiry where it takes you, advance your personal research, and collaborate with other scholars and practitioners from across the US and around the globe.

As a visiting fellow, you pursue research related to Kellogg Institute themes of democracy and human development, share your research with the Notre Dame scholarly community, and have the opportunity to publish in Kellogg’s peer-reviewed Working Paper Series.