In 2024, they hope to find, recognize, choose, and equip up to 25 young Asian educators who are passionate about changing education.

With “Changemakers for Education,” they seek for, link, and assist Asia’s most promising young social entrepreneurs and changemakers who are paving the way for workable solutions to systematically combat educational disparity.

The educational divide between the rich and the underprivileged is substantial, despite the fact that more people than ever before have access to school. Factors influencing access to education and achievement include place of birth, wealth, ethnicity, and gender. With the following ideas in mind, this program seeks to raise awareness of projects throughout Asia that support equitable chances for self-development via education, with a special focus on underprivileged children.

Quick Details:

• Offered by: ChangemakerXchange
• Supported by: Julius Baer Foundation
• No. Opportunities: 25
• Deadline: March 18, 2024
• Review of Applications: 18th March to 27th March 2024.
• Next Steps: 28th March 2024 – All candidates will be informed, and shortlisted candidates will be invited to a (max.) 45 min online interview.
• Online In-Person Interviews: 28th March to 26th April 2024.
• Notification of Final Outcome: 3rd May 2024 – shortlisted candidates will be informed if they’re selected for the programme
• Duration: 5 Days
• Format: Online
• Gender: Any
• Eligible Nations: Asia Region Countries (Afghanistan included)

Benefits:

• In Person conference: All candidates are invited to an immersive 5-day in-person conference from August 12 to 16, 2024. This one-of-a-kind gathering, held in a stunning natural setting, is intended to develop deep friendships, promote wellbeing, and provide the groundwork for significant collaborations.
• Participants receive customized needs-based help to enhance their capacity through an online capacity building program that includes of simple yet dynamic virtual forms led by specialists and leaders with lived experience.
• Collaboration funding: They also offer small seed grants to assist cross-border co-creation or co-learning activities that can help eliminate regional education inequity through participatory budgeting.
• Ecosystem Building and Networking: In addition to supporting participants’ initiatives and fostering collaboration among changemakers, the goal is to connect them to a larger ecosystem of partners, exhibits, supporters, event gatherings, and collaborators within and beyond the changemakersXchange and Julius Baer Foundation Networks.
• Community: Candidates will not only have the opportunity to connect with and learn from other changemakers working in various dimensions of education across Asia, but they will also be invited to join the global ChangemakerXchange community, which includes lifelong access to resources and regular opportunities to connect, learn, and co-create with social innovators around the world.

Who covers the cost of participation in the summit and programme?

• Participants are responsible for their own transportation expenditures from their home country to the summit’s location. ChangemakerXchange will, however, cover ALL OTHER COSTS associated with the summit and programme, including: accommodation, catering, local transportation, room rental, equipment and material, COVID-19 rapid tests, FFP2 masks, facilitation and hosting compensation, programme manager compensation, carbon emissions offsetting derived from local hosting, post-summit capacity-building program, and post-summit community engagement activities.

Eligibility Criteria:

• You must be from or currently living/having an impact in a country in South Asia (which includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) or South-East Asia (which includes Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand, Brunei, Malaysia, East Timor, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Singapore). The initiative focuses on (but is not limited to) persons and projects from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, and Pakistan.
• This programme is only open to people aged 18 to 35. They target people over the age of 18 for permission reasons. (Changemakers of all ages are welcome to participate in additional activities such as Train the Trainer programs, the Changemaker for Democracy program, and Possibilist events.)
• Role: You are the founder/co-founder, leader/co-leader, manager/co-manager (or hold an influential position with decision-making power, such as an intrapreneur) of a social/environmental venture/organization that is operational and addresses educational inequality. They realize, however, that effective social change is not a ‘hero fight’, thus they are also clearly open to persons who have been nominated or ‘put up’ by their collective or team to represent them and their initiative(s).
• While ideas will be chosen based on their validity rather than their English skill, the programme will be hosted in English, requiring a decent level of understanding and the capacity to explain oneself in English to participate.

Eligible Initiatives:

While not limited to the ways listed below, they’d want to give a few examples of qualifying projects and approaches, such as working on:

• Bridging the digital divide between rich children and youth and underserved populations.
• Leveraging funds for underfunded schools.
• Providing access to literacy materials and tutors.
• Developing exciting extracurricular activities with disadvantaged children in mind.
• Helping teachers in underserved schools.
• Connecting children with high-quality, free materials.
• Supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in both official and informal education.
• Supporting underprivileged parents and fostering effective teacher-parent partnerships.
• Providing education in communities without physical schools.
• Policy changes to promote educational equality.
• Raising awareness and modifying mindsets can help to draw attention to the problem and potential solutions.

How to Apply?

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For more information, kindly visit the ChangemakerXchange’s website.