Applicant criteria
- 18 - 35
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Opportunity description
World Bank Youth Summit is calling all young social entrepreneurs to submit an innovative idea that contributes to building human capital, the greatest asset of economies globally. This is an opportunity for the youth to submit an original idea aimed at increasing human skills, knowledge, or well-being related to at least one of the sub-themes listed below:
- Building the Foundations of human capital encapsulates the formative years, including children through university-age youth.
- Maximizing individual potential is focused on working-age adults (including early, mid, and late career) and the elderly.
Eligibility Requirements:
- The Competition is open to individuals or teams of 1-4 people aged 18 to 35.
- Teams and individuals are limited to one submission each.
- The Competition is open to nationals of ALL countries of the world.
Submission Rules:
To participate in the Competition, participants must submit a document outlining their idea, entries must comply with the following Submission Rules:
- Proposals must be created by and owned by the participants.
- Proposals must be submitted in English.
- Proposals shall provide an innovative and action-oriented business-level or policy-level idea on how to provide young people with a quality, inclusive, and relevant education, adapted to the realities of the 21st century.
- The problem/need and the proposed solution outlined in the proposals must relate to at least one of the sub-themes of the Youth Summit 2018 and must apply to a least one client country of the World Bank Group.
- Proposals must be between 1,000-2,500 words in length.
- The following information must be provided at the top of the first page of the proposal: (a) the names of the participant(s) submitting the proposal – for teams, all team members’ names shall be listed; (b) the final word count, which must include everything.
- Participants must submit their entries by filling and submitting the “Youth Summit 2018 – Competition Submission Form"
- The deadline for submitting Entries is 11:59 pm EST, October 5th, 2018.
Prizes:
Winners will receive in-kind prizes. Details will be announced at a later stage. In addition to the prizes, the YSOC will make all efforts to feature and promote finalists’ and winners’ ideas on the Youth Summit event page and social media platforms, and to provide exposure to winners at high profile events.