20 Global Opportunities 2025 for Youths and Journalists Currently Deadline Varies: (January, February to March, 2025)

Are you a youth or journalist seeking to elevate your career or make an impact? Here’s a curated list of 20 exciting opportunities currently open globally. These include scholarships, fellowships, funding opportunities, training programs, and competitions tailored for changemakers like you. Dive in!

1. TBLF Emerging Political Leaders Fellowship 2025. 

The Emerging Political Leaders Fellowship is an initiative of The Bridge Leadership Foundation (TBLF). It is a fully-funded, non-partisan Political Leadership development project which nurtures and prepares young Nigerians for leadership at the local, regional and national levels, enhancing the overall quality of leadership in the country.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 28

2.  AU-EU Youth Lab Representation Grants 2025.

 It is a grant supporting initiatives led by underrepresented and marginalised youth in Africa with the overall goal of enabling young people to deliver the change they want in their communities. These grants will be managed by Restless Development Uganda – a non-profit global agency which supports the collective power of young leaders to create a better world.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 19

3. WILD Fellowship Program 2025.

In today’s workplace, women continue to face significant barriers to attaining leadership roles. The WILD Fellowship Program is a transformative initiative designed to bridge this gap by equipping early-mid career women with the tools, resources, and support they need to excel and attain senior leadership roles.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 16

4.  McKinsey & Company Young Leaders Program 2025.

Do you want to work on complex and pressing challenges-the kind that bring together curious, ambitious, and determined leaders who strive to become better every day? If this sounds like you, you’ve come to the right place.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Unspecified

5. Georgia Tech Entrepreneurial Impact Competition 2025 

The Entrepreneurial Impact Competition provides students with a hands-on opportunity to apply their civil and environmental engineering knowledge outside the classroom by creating innovative concepts to improve the human condition-and potentially win a $5,000 prize.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 26

6. OneBeat Kenya Creative Residency 2025.

OneBeat Kenya, a dynamic two-and-a-half-week creative residency, will bring together 12 trailblazing artist leaders from across East Africa and the United States. This residency is designed for collaboration, growth, and innovation. Ten artists from East Africa and two artists from the United States, spanning genres and musical communities, will unite to explore new musical horizons and sharpen their professional and entrepreneurial skills.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 11

7. Calling Youth in Canada: GAC Canadian Delegation to the 58th UN Commission on Population & Development (Funded)

The Global Affairs Canada (GAC) is seeking a youth delegate to join the Canadian delegation to the 58th United Nations (UN) Commission on Population and Development annual session. The Canadian delegation to CPD typically consists of delegates from GAC headquarters and Canada’s Permanent Mission to the UN. Since 2019, Canada has included a youth in its official delegation, with delegates participating virtually in 2020, 2021, and 2022. Delegates in 2023 and 2024 participated in person.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 2

8. Cyber Security Academic Startup Accelerator Programme 2025. 

Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will work with the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) to invest up to £800,000 in innovative cyber security projects coming from an academic research base.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 12

9. University of Toronto School of Cities Story & Image Competition 2025. 

The School of Cities, along with the departments of English at the University of Toronto Mississauga and University of Toronto St. George, is hosting a short story & image competition inspired by the School of Cities’ annual themes. Submissions are welcome from full-time undergraduate and graduate students at U of T from any discipline, department, or campus.
Click here to apply | Deadline: March 3

10. Foodtech Innovations Awards 2025. 

The Foodtech Innovations Awards recognizes the most innovative proposals that offer a disruptive approach to Customer Experience or Management. Innovative business models or technology that can make a change in the food sector.
Click here to apply | Deadline: April 4

11, Viva Technology Africa Tech Awards 2025.

 This year, VivaTech organizes the fourth edition of the AfricaTech Awards. This pan-African initiative recognizes and supports startups striving to make a positive impact in three important areas – Green Tech, Health Tech, and E-commerce / Fin Tech. Startups provide vital solutions to major global challenges and help foster sustainable development.
Click here to apply | Deadline: March 2

12. World IP Day 2025 Youth Video Competition. 

The World IP Day 2025 Youth Video Competition celebrates the role that music and intellectual property (IP) rights play in our lives. The Competition invites individuals or group participants to submit a 60 to 90-second video that captures the connection between music, IP rights, innovation, and creativity that’s shaping our future.
Click here to apply | Deadline: March 16

13. Green Money Project for Nigerian Youth in Agribusiness 2025. 

Join this transformative journey and be part of the initiative that will shape the future of agriculture in Nigeria.
Click here to apply | Deadline: Unspecified

14. Advanced Digital and Professional Training (ADaPT) for Black Youth Program 2025. 

The program supports Black youth in developing skills for success, including those to build  digital and professional competencies and help secure work. The program is for Black youth aged 15 to 29 across Ontario.
Click here to apply |  Deadline: Ongoing

15. Tarbell Al Journalism Fellowship 2025.

The Tarbell Fellowship is a one-year program for early-career journalists interested in covering artificial intelligence. Fellows secure a 9-month placement at a major newsroom, participate in an 10-week study group covering Al governance & technical fundamentals, and attend a week-long journalism summit in San Francisco.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 28

16. Sigma Awards 2025. 

The Sigma Awards is a competition to celebrate the best data journalism from around the world. Striding into its fifth year, it’s also here to empower, elevate and enlighten the global community of data journalists.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 28

17. NASW Science in Society Journalism Awards 2025. 

National Association of Science Writers (NASW) established the Science in Society Journalism Awards to provide recognition – without subsidy from any professional or commercial interest – for investigative or interpretive reporting about the sciences and their impact on modern society.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 1

18. Complex Systems Summer School Journalism Fellowship 2025.

Santa Fe Institute (SFI) offers a journalism fellowship for accomplished reporters. National and international journalists with a demonstrated interest in and record of

reporting about matters related to complex systems are encouraged to apply for this residential fellowship in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Click here to apply | Deadline: February 17

19. Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism 2025-2026.

 The Knight-Bagehot Fellowship offers experienced journalists the opportunity to enhance their understanding of business and economics, finance and technology.
Click here to apply | Deadline: January 31

20. Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC) Fellowship 2025. 

With the support of sponsors and partners, the conference is offering fellowships to journalists from the Global South, and those from historically underrepresented groups to participate in the prestigious event. Competition is keen, so you need to convince them that you will make great use of the training that GIJC25 offers.
Click here to apply | Deadline: January 31

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