Deadline: November 15, 2023.

The Global Citizenship Learning Program is open to university students with a passion for local community impact aged 18- 25 that are currently enrolled at one of their partner universities. Applicants must have sufficient English language skills to express themselves and understand others while discussing the complex nature of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). Their participants are university students who are committed to serving their communities and, through the Global Citizenship Learning Program, can build their capacity, grow their spheres of influence, and eventually model and promote global citizenship through their actions.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

1. Applicants must have sufficient English language skills to express themselves and understand others while discussing the complex nature of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs).
2. Open to university students with a passion for local community impact aged 18- 25 that are currently enrolled at one of their partner universities.

Students from their partner universities are welcome to apply:

• Bangalore, India – B.M.S Group of Institutions
• Greater Accra, Ghana – Ashesi University
• New Orleans, United States – Dillard University
• Jena, Germany – Friedrich-Schiller-Universität
• Temuco, Chile – Universidad de La Frontera
• Hangzhou, China – Zhejiang University

BENEFITS

As a participant in the Global Citizenship Learning Program, you will:

• Experience different cultures first-hand and learn to work across boundaries of place and identity through hands-on workshops, training, and mentoring projects.
• Work alongside and build relationships with other student change-makers in China, India, Chile, Ghana, Germany, and the United States.
• Expand your knowledge about relevant global topics related to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
• Co-create and develop impact projects with Fellows and partners in your community and around the world to drive change initiatives – small and big – for wider impact.
• Acquire skills in areas such as intercultural communications, teamwork, design thinking, project management, storytelling, podcasting, ethical leadership, and systems thinking.
• Subject to active participation, be invited to participate in a fully sponsored in-person annual convention in China, India, Chile, Ghana, Germany, and/or the United States.
• On successful completion of the program, become part of their unique, lifelong, supported global community of 600+ Senior Melton Fellows.

Apply through the OFFICIAL LINK