Call for Frontier Technology Applications for Strengthening Systems for Health, Nutrition and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support. The UNICEF Venture Fund is looking to invest in Open Source frontier technology solutions that have the potential to create radical change in children’s health, nutrition, and mental health
ELIGIBILITY:
Female and youth-led/founded startups are encouraged to apply. If you’re ready to make a global impact, reach out!
If your company is leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), data science (DS), drones, blockchain, or extended reality (XR), we want to hear from you! We are specifically seeking companies registered in one of UNICEF’s programme countries that have impressive working prototypes and a commitment to Open Source licensing.
UNICEF’s Venture Fund is currently looking to invest in companies that are developing software solutions using frontier technologies such as blockchain, drones, data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, or extended reality to strengthen systems for health, including mental health.
BENEFIT:
UNICEF will offer up to US$100K in equity-free funding for early stage, for-profit technology start-ups that can improve the lives of children.
Every year, BU welcomes approximately 20 outstanding students to the Trustee Scholars Program. In addition to exceptional academic credentials, Trustee Scholars are intellectually and creatively adventurous and demonstrate viewpoints, experiences, or achievements beyond the usual.
ELIGIBILITY:
Scholars must have scored 4.0 grade point averages in high school and ranked in the top of their class.
Open for all Nationality
Submit the Common Application and all required materials for admission to one of the undergraduate degree programs at BU by December 1.
Complete the Trustee Scholarship essay on the Common Application as part of your application to BU.
Please choose from one of the two prompts below and submit one essay, in 600 words or less, as part of your application through the Common Application.
Nobel laureate and BU professor Elie Wiesel once said: “There is divine beauty in learning… To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests.” Is there a book, film, podcast or life- experience that has made you feel more connected to your personal history/identity, and what is the most important thing you learned from it?
Describe a time when you felt out of your comfort zone or marginalized in a situation. How did you respond to that moment and how has it informed your actions moving forward?
BENEFIT:
A Trustee Scholarship covers full undergraduate tuition plus mandatory undergraduate student fees, and is renewable for four years if certain criteria are met.
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