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Applications are now open for the 2025 UNESCO-NESTLÉ Youth Impact – Because You Matter Programme. This program seeks to support young people to help their communities through climate action and environmental sustainability initiatives, by providing them with resources and skills necessary to implement their innovative projects.
Opportunity Details
YOUTH IMPACT – BECAUSE YOU MATTER – For Environmental Sustainability and Climate Action is an initiative led by UNESCO in collaboration with Nestlé, powered by the Nestlé Youth Entrepreneurship Platform. It seeks to support young people to help their communities through climate action and environmental sustainability initiatives, by providing them with resources and skills necessary to implement their innovative projects.
Themes
100 project leaders will be selected worldwide to receive:
The project’s primary and direct beneficiaries will be young individuals, youth-led organizations, enterprises, associations, or networks who:
Are identified as “youth” in their respective countries or (in lack of a national definition) within the age range of 18-30 years old from the beginning to the end of the project.
Engage in activism and changemaking initiatives, entrepreneurialism, either individually or as members of entities/associations.
Youth-led organization and networks, seeking impact at grassroots level, with regional, national, local scope, or chapters of international organizations, and based in the country where their proposal will be implemented.
All applications will propose projects that are:
relevant to the Initiative’s themes as elaborated above
implemented within 6 months
local or national in scope
delivered by a team of at least 3 young people with a clearly identified project leader.
Please refer to the Terms and Conditions for more details, including on the selection process.
Apply for UNESCO-NESTLÉ Youth Impact – Because You Matter Program