Students and Young People’s Award for Furthering Access to Post-Secondary Education

The Global Access to Post-Secondary Education (GAPS) Initiative with the support of the Austrian Union of Students is delighted to Call for Nominations for the 1st ‘GAPS Students and Young People’s Award for Furthering Access to Post-Secondary Education’.

The Global Access to Post-Secondary Education (GAPS) Initiative of the European Access Network (EAN) aims to build a global access movement with the objective of widening access to post-secondary education. Partnering with organizations from across the world, GAPS works to bring together those sectors committed to equality of access to post-secondary education through collaborative advocacy and action.

Those eligible to receive this new GAPS Award include individual youth and students (up to age 30) as well as youth- and student-led organizations and initiatives. Nominees must have demonstrated a strong, sustained commitment to the cause of widening access to postsecondary education and/or an innovative approach to improving equality of post-secondary opportunity and student success. Achievements of the nominees can be demonstrated in
several ways, but may include the aspects of replicability, verifiability, sustainability and evidence for change. Activities performed by the nominees can for example include research, counselling, trainings, campaigns, summer schools, peer learning and/or outreach activities.

Award winners will receive a fee waiver for the 2015 conference, an invitation to the conference dinner as well as a flight subsidy of up to $800.00 USD and five nights hotel accommodation for one person. The Award winners will also be given the opportunity to present their work during the ‘Access Forum for Students and Young People’ taking place October 5th.

Deadline: 23 August 2015
Read more and apply here.