MyGlasgow News

You may aware that the University of Glasgow co-hosted, with the University of Edinburgh, a youth leadership programme called 33Fifty, immediately prior to the Commonwealth Games in July 2014. This was highly successful and its organisers, Common Purpose, have asked Glasgow to host a leadership development programme – the Global Leader Experience - specifically for University of Glasgow students, as part of the Common Purpose “50 Magnet Cities” initiative. Global Leader Experiences are run for university students in Magnet Cities across the world, where large numbers of students – from at least 100 countries – convene to study.

Over four days, students work on a challenge with external partners, which may include corporate agencies, potential employers, politicians and civil servants, and develop the cultural intelligence they will need to become global citizens and leaders.  Common Purpose runs Global Leader Experiences in partnership with one university in each of its fifty identified Magnet Cities. Recent host universities have included Harvard, Oxford, UCL and Wits, Johannesburg.

The programme will run from 17 February to 20 February 2015 on campus. 100 students will be selected from applications, with the aim of securing a mix of undergraduate and postgraduate students from a broad range of academic disciplines and nationalities.

Students can apply now apply via the online portal:

www.commonpurpose.org/global-programmes/global-leader-experiences/where/glasgow.

The deadline for applications is 15 January 2015. 

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First published: 5 December 2014