Youth Conference 2025/Participants

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16 – 18 May 2025 | Prague

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Participants

The event will be a global meet-up of 80 young Wikimedians from around the world. We will provide full scholarships for up to 80 participants and can also offer 5 - 10 places for self-funding participants. The same criteria will apply to them as to other participants.

As we are expanding on the work of the CEE Youth group, at least 40 schollarships are reserved for representatives from the CEE region.

We want to spread the rest of the places as much as possible to cover all other regions equally. Due to capacity, we cannot guarantee representation of all Wikimedia communities, but we will work with the scholarship committee to find the best possible representation so that each region has a voice present.

Participant profile:

• young active Wikimedian, organizational wiki experience as a great advantage
• aged 18 – 26 (up to 30 years in exceptional cases)
• eager to discuss, learn and collaborate with others
• due to the nature of the event, a very good level of English communication is a prerequisite, participants will be together throughout the event to discuss, present to each other
• the intention to be active in the Wikimedia movement long-term
• representation of a specific Wikimedia community, region, language or project

Scholarship requirements

• minimum age 18 years (14 May 2025 at the latest)
• possibility to travel to the Czech Republic
• intention to devote a minimum of 12 months after the event to active involvement in the Wikimedia movement in an organizing role
• a recommendation from a local Affiliate (Chapter, User Group, Thematic Organization, Hub) or active Wikimedian who guarantees organizational involvement and representation of a specific Wikimedia community

Scholarship award criteria

1. organisational experience or demonstrable potential
2. direct recommendation and its nature
3. participant motivation – especially towards P2P (peer-to-peer) activities & willingness to express their opinion
4. commitment to contribute to the Wikimedia sending community
5. regional representation and its distribution
6. diversity of participants – diversity of voices