TravelGrants has launched a “Travel4Youth: Travel Grant Opportunity 2019” for young changemakers around the world. The aim of Travel4Youth is to promote travel as an educational and skill developing tool for teenagers and young adults. We encourage young activists, changemakers, charities, students, social media influencers, artists, and all others to apply.

In your travel grant application please let us know your travel project in mind and how your travel will change you. The travel project must represent an opportunity to gain intercultural knowledge and learn about an environment different than yours. The justification part of your application should highlight, why should you be supported with this travel grant and why do you need and deserve it.

The in-house jury will select one winner for the $500 travel grant. The Winner will be announced on 31 January 2020 on our Facebook Page:  @travelgrant.

Rules for Participation

• Participation is open to any individual in any country unless prohibited by local or the United States law
• Be between 18 and 35 years old on the departure date
• The motivation letter must be submitted using the online form. Submission by email will not be accepted.
• Motivation letter for a travel grant must be in an easily accessible format, e.g. MS Word, PDF.
• Written submissions must be in English
• The application must be submitted before the deadline

For full rules and guidelines please click here.

The deadline for the submission is 31 December 2019 (23:59 GMT).

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The main objective of the fellowship is to provide merit-based awards for the students to support them in a full-time course of study. This also offers supplemental funding to the  Einaudi International Research Travel competition, with the support for graduate students’ researches travels in East Asia. The small number of fundings for the co-sponsorship of Student Organizations on campus to hold events featuring cultures of East Asia is also done.

Eligibility 

• These are for the students of Cornell University. It is beneficial for merit-based scholarships for those students.

Benefits

• The East Asia Program supplements the Mario Einaudi Center International Research Travel Grants (international airfare only) with its own travel grants established in support of graduate student field research in East Asia
• These supplementary grants pay for research and living costs for short-term field research
• Awards range from $500USD to $2,000USD and are not intended to replace full semester Graduate Area Studies, Fellowships

Application Process

• At this point, the only undergraduate funding EAP offers are the EAP East Asian Language, Study Grant
• EAP Area Studies Fellowships – without citizenship restrictions (see Area Studies Fellowships)

Note: 

• Generally, one-semester of graduate study support, to be used at Cornell or for research in an East Asian country
• Incoming (first year) Cornell students are NOT eligible for EAP Fellowships
• Results are announced approximately eight weeks after the application deadline

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