We are excited to share the Open Call for Applications for the Asia-Europe Training and Youth Summit on Science and Technology Diplomacy 2025 with you, and we would deeply appreciate your support in helping us spread the word within your university and professional networks.

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.

We are specifically looking for candidates from universities and research institutions who:

• Work as Research or Science Managers, who 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 that you can use for this purpose:

• Open Call for Applications is available here

• Application Deadline: Tuesday, 9 September 2025 

• You may share the LinkedIn post here or the Facebook post here

• Please visit the website here and read the Overview and FAQs here (also attached) for more details