6th IYTT Youth Conference and Nobel Symposium - call closed

The call for the IYTT annual youth conference 2024 is closed.
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When too many people are unheard or excluded from decision-making, and authoritarian regimes work to cynically manipulate and roll back democratic processes, young minds are indispensable to inspire people and innovate democracy for a brighter future. Appalled yet strengthened in our resolve to stand up for equality, peace, and democracy, we invite 24 young persons to a five-day conference. We pay for traveling, lodging, and meals during your stay.

Together with your peers, you will discuss how to understand the ideal of democracy, and produce a dozen tangible policy proposals for democratisation, peace building, and democracy renewal. You are offered the opportunity to engage with Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, research scholars, and executive professionals as part of a structured and moderated program. Your proposals are expected to be based upon verifiable evidence and they must be deliberated and developed in a collaborative space among equal peers. You will leave the conference trained in democracy entrepreneurship, with broadened knowledge, strengthened voice, enhanced network capacity, and new friends.

You apply by submitting a personal presentation and argumentation of why you should participate. Anyone living in South Africa by the time of the conference is welcome to apply. Apply below no later than May 15. Please help us spread the word by sharing this invitation with your friends, colleagues, and relatives. A PDF for spreading can be found here.

The 24 conference participants are selected based on an assessment according to three criteria. How convincing is the applicant that she/he: (1) will develop personally by participating in the conference; (2) has social capacities and experiences that would contribute to the conference; and (3) has ideas on democracy that would contribute to the conference. All applications are assessed individually by the conference’ four working group moderators, who jointly suggest 24 shortlisted applicants. The selection decision will be taken by the Scientific Organising Committee.