Scholarship

International Youth Innovation Award

We offers scholarships to community members who want to further their passion and demonstrate a commitment to their communities and to our values. We support and accompany those undertaking initiatives that will have a positive social and environmental impact. We develop acceleration programs for ideas and impact startups that will boost their chances for success.

The International Youth Innovation Award is open to young people aged between 12 and 35. The Award aims to recognize and celebrate young men and women throughout the world who have developed innovative programmes, practices, activities and solutions to the social, economic, political and environmental challenges facing human kind today.

The winners have gone on to make significant contributions to society and us– entering a range of fields including public service, medicine, law, business and teaching. Many have returned to the our organizations as staffers, organizers, and community activists who contribute to our mission.

Award Categories

The 5 categories span the breadth of the Award and are judged by the steering Committee and panel of expert judges in their field. Awards will be given in the following categories:

1. Arts and Athletics 2. Green Inventions and Innovations

3. Urban Ecological 4. Entrepreneur

5. Social and Cultural Innovations 6. Leadership

Remark: The Scholarship Program is maintained and administered by the NESTA Foundation, which has full discretion to make all final decisions concerning the number of scholarships awarded each year, the amounts awarded, and the recipients of each of the scholarships. The NESTA Foundation shall also have full discretion in deciding whether a scholarship is to be continued or deferred for any period of time.