Deadline: 16-Apr-23
Are you a High School Student (14 to 18 years-old) or an Undergraduate Tourism student 25 or under for academic year 2022-2023? Do you want to be part of change for a more sustainable Tourism sector? Do you want to learn about what is happening in the sector from Top professionals? Do you want to become the Bosnia & Herzegovina winning Team that will participate in the Grand Global Final with other Teams from around the world? Get your thinking cap on because the 2023 UNWTO Students’ League is starting in Bosnia & Herzegovina and UNWTO need your ideas!
UNWTO, under the framework of the BRIDGE project – that counts on the financial support of the Italian Agency of Development Cooperation (AICS) and is implemented and co-financed by the United Nations Development Programme in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNDP BiH) in collaboration for the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations of BiH, is launching the 2023 UNWTO Students’ League – Bosnia and Herzegovina, an innovative environment to empower and motivate high school students and tourism and hospitality undergraduate students by giving them real-time experience working on creating and presenting innovative sustainable solutions for the challenges that the sector is facing nowadays.
Through an online competition, Students from around the world will compete to give the tourism sector their best sustainable ideas on the pressing subjects of the sector, such as the themes chosen for this year, Tourism for Rural development, through the challenge “Off the Beaten Track”.
This competition bridges the gap between students’ education and training and the realities of their sector and therefore not only gives students more insight on their sector and on the possible job avenues that exist but also enables these young people to then enter the labour market as highly qualified and skilled professionals capable of adapting to any situation that may arise.
Challenges
- Challenges will be launched on UNWTO Students League platform on the designated day according to each League.
- The Challenges will reflect a real tourism issue that the sector is facing; it will be focused on real problems looking for real solutions.
- other formats such as a single one-off challenge can also be implemented
- Each League will comprise a single or a set of challenges created specifically for specific levels of studies (middle school, high, school, undergraduate-Bachelor/post-graduateMaster/etc) and this will be specifically detailed in the Team composition details.
- The Challenges will be fully aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals, with an emphasis on Goals 8,12 and 14, in which tourism is featured, and proposals should match Challenges with specific SDGs.
- Consultation sessions may be made available to the Student/Teams for some Challenges. If made available, these will be clearly announced on the challenges and on the UNWTO League website
- Online presentation sessions may be organized for the Student/Teams, these will be communicated to the Student/Teams via email and on the UNWTO Students’ league platform.
What do students gain?
- Experience from working on a real situation in the Tourism sector
- Learning about the best practices in the field from top professionals
- Networking
- Winning solutions will be published in UNWTO e-publication
- Exciting prizes
Eligibility Criteria
- Two categories:
- High School students (14 to 18 years-old)
- Undergraduate Tourism students (19 to 25 years old) currently carrying-out tourism and/or hospitality studies in a school/institution/university in Bosnia & Herzegovina wishing to participate in the National UNWTO Students’ League. Undergraduate Students must be in their first degree, from 19 to 25 years old
- Only 1 submission per Institution will be accepted and will need an official support letter from the Institution/University they represent, clearly stating the names of the team members.
- The Team interested in participating must fill-in the corresponding registration form and attach the corresponding required documents.
- The applications will also include:
- Support letter from the Institution/University presenting the Team
- Logo of the Institution/University
- Social Media handles of Institution/University
- Breakdown of the team (5 students + representative teacher)
- Resume of each team member
- Photo of each team member (white background)
- Short, 1-minute video introducing and showcasing the Team and Institution/University
- Registration does not confirm participation. Once registration is closed (16 April 2023, 23’59 CET), a screening of registrations will be carried out and only those students who have been accepted will receive a Confirmation of participation email.
For more information, visit UNWTO.