Open Call for Applications for the Asia-Europe Training and Youth Summit on Science and Technology Diplomacy 2025

The project will bring together early-career professionals from civil society and government to learn, exchange, and build their network in Asia and Europe

Open Call for Applications for the Asia-Europe Training and Youth Summit on Science and Technology Diplomacy 2025  

The project will bring together early-career professionals from civil society and government to learn, exchange, and build their network in Asia and Europe. It has two components:

  • The online Training on Science and Technology Diplomacy which will run from 23 October to 4 December 2025 (13 live sessions over 7 weeks, ~3 hours of commitment per week). It focuses on building knowledge, practical skills, peer learning and networking in science and technology diplomacy. 
  • Selected participants from the online Training will be invited to join the Youth Summit on Science and Technology Diplomacy in Copenhagen (15–18 December 2025), held alongside the 2nd European Science Diplomacy Conference, and hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark as part of the Danish EU Presidency programme.

Looking for candidates from universities and research institutions who:

  • Work as Research or Science Managers and have a supervisory or coordination role (e.g. managing research projects or teams, overseeing research areas, or supporting institutional research strategy)
  • Are involved in international science, technology and innovation cooperation
  • Are below 35 years old and based in an ASEF partner country.

Please find the relevant links below:

  • Open Call for Applications is available here
  • Application Deadline: Tuesday, 9 September 2025 
  • Please visit the website here and read the Overview and FAQs here 

 

For questions: linnea.regnell@asef.org and scitech@asef.org.