Mongolia Young Leaders Program was initiated by MonAme Scientific Research Center and the first annual conference took place in Washington DC, USA in March 2009 with the support of the Mongolian Embassy in the United States, the North America-Mongolia Business Council and the Zorig Foundation. In Mongolia, the Young Leaders Program was established by Zorig Foundation and has been active since 2003.

Based on the success of last year’s conference, the Mongolian Young Leaders Program is expanding into Europe in 2010 to include Mongolian students who are enrolled at top European universities. This year’s event will be organized by MonAme Scientific Research Center with the cooperation of the Honorary Consul of Mongolia designate in Milan and with the support of the Mongolian Embassy in Austria (Mongolian Ambassador to Austria is also concurrently accredited as Ambassador to Italy) and the Zorig Foundation.

The Mongolia Young Leaders Program in Europe is scheduled to take place from the 6th to 7th of May, in Milan, and will be hosted by the Italian-Mongolian Business Council. The initiative has received support of the President of Mongolia Tsakhia Elbegdorj.

The aim of this conference is to challenge Mongolia’s best young talented minds into thinking about the sustainable prosperity of Mongolia, to provide an opportunity for the studentfellows to meet with one another and to exchange their views and opinions about the current and future state of democracy and the economic and human development of Mongolia, and ultimately, to motivate them to become future political, intellectual and business leaders of the country. During last year’s conference, nine outstanding fellows from leading US universities were chosen and given the opportunity to visit the World Bank headquarters and the US Congress to participate in meetings and discussion forums with H.E Ambassador Kh. Bekhbat, Mr. Steve Saunders, Chairman of North America-Mongolia Business Council, and members of the US House of Representatives.

We highly encourage students to apply to take advantage of this great opportunity to meet fellow Mongolian students and some of Italy’s most important political and economic leaders by coming to the financial and fashion capital of Italy: Milan!

Goals of the program

• To exchange ideas about the future development of Mongolia and how students can contribute
  
• To provide networking opportunities for future leaders of Mongolia
  
• To encourage students to return to Mongolia by connecting them with employers in Mongolia
  
• To enable Mongolian future leaders to meet with Italian leaders
  
• To introduce Italy, a member country of EU and G8
  

Eligibility and other information

• Mongolian citizen enrolled at European universities.
  
• Displaying leadership qualities.
  
• The event is free of charge: all expenses in Milan will be covered by sponsors and organizers.
  
• Accepted students are responsible for their return ticket to/from Milan.
  

Application deadline
5 April, 2010
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted by 15th April 2010.

How to apply

To apply for this event, please submit your school transcript and CV with your contact information. In order to aid the selection process, please answer the following questions. Please limit each of your responses to 250 words.

1. Please explain your course of study and how it relates to your career goals.
   
2. Mongolia is a land of opportunities and challenges. Please identify one problem in Mongolia
   and propose a solution to improve the situation.
   
3. How do you plan to contribute to Mongolia's future development?
   
4. What steps have you taken as a student to demonstrate involvement in the community, in
   Mongolia or the country of your residence?
   

Contact address

ylp.europe@gmail.com

Websites:

www.monamescience.org
www.ylp.mn

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