About the Summer Conference:
Get Engaged Student Action and Youth Leadership conference is a student leadership and civic engagement focused conference that brings together students who lead community based projects together from across the Open Society University Network. Students share lessons learned, discuss challenges and opportunities, collaborate on network initiatives and attend skills-based leadership workshops that include leadership, public speaking, networking, community partnerships, innovation and creativity, fundraising and grant writing, and emotional intelligence.
For more about last year’s conference in Berlin, visit https://opensocietyuniversitynetwork.org/civic-engagement/get-engaged/.
The Fellowship is designed to support OSUN student leaders who will be returning to their campuses to implement lessons learned. Students must be enrolled at their universities for the 2025-2026 academic year and plan on continuing to lead their community-based project.
– To attend the conference, students must attend all six workshops leading up to the conference and the six after the conference. This year, Get Engaged is a year-long fellowship.
– Interested students will reach out to you with their questions and guidance (first prompt in the application – please let me know if you are listed correctly and with the right email address).
SUMMER CONFERENCE LOCATION: Vilnius, Lithuania at the European Humanities University
SUMMER CONFERENCE DATES: July 14 – July 21
APPLICATION: https://forms.gle/GdfM4abSCi83gE417
APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 5, 2025
Students applying for the Fellowship with Conference must complete the application form to be considered.
Fellowship and Conference Description:
Approximately 40 OSUN-wide undergraduate students will be selected for the fellowship with conference.
Participants attend 12 monthly interactive, community-of-practice workshops; six workshops prior to the conference and six workshops after the conference.
Fellows will attend the week-long, immersive, in-person conference held halfway through the fellowship.
The OSUN Civic Engagement Fellowship is a year-long program designed to equip students across the OSUN network with the skills, knowledge, and networks needed to lead impactful civic engagement initiatives. The cohort will be comprised of forty outstanding undergraduate students based on their demonstrated leadership of community-based civic engagement projects.
Throughout the fellowship, participants will engage in structured virtual learning sessions, mentorship, and hands-on project development over the course of one year including 12 interactive workshops and leadership programming. Following the immersive, in-person conference held mid-way through the program, participants will be eligible for microgrant funding to support project expansion. At the end of the year, an online conference open to the Network will provide an opportunity for participants to reflect on lessons learned.