Young Leaders League
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Engage and inspire, take the lead and make a difference
Young Leaders League flyer.pdf
To high-achievers with leadership potential Utrecht University offers the Young Leaders League, a selective 15 ECTS honours course at graduate level. This course is about leadership and innovation skills, about responsability and ethics, and it is structured around major challenges of modern societies in a globalizing world:
- Sustainability and Growth
- Globalization and Identity
- Entrepreneurship and Ethics
- Public good and private interest
Think outside your discipline
These multifaceted themes demand the joint efforts of experts from the sciences, social sciences and humanities. They require knowledge of energy, climate dynamics, food, technology, and health. But insight into the dynamics of societies, law and economics, languages and cultures, or history and philosophy are just as essential.
Be innovative and responsible
These global challenges demand young professionals who are innovative, entrepreneurial, intellectually versatile, goal oriented and socially responsible. The issues transcend national and cultural borders. Therefore the programme is conducted entirely in English and aims at a substantial participation of international students.
Join the Young Leaders League
The YLL invites UU graduate students who want to get more out of their Master's programme to apply. As a participant you will:
- become part of a community that serves as an inspiring learning environment and will provide the basis for your professional network
- work in interdisciplinary teams on topics within the themes above
- participate in monthly seminars on various topics and aspects of leadership ranging from leadership styles and ethics to entrepreneurship and innovation
- participate in 2 masters classes per semester by leaders in the corporate world and public governance
- receive coaching for personal development
- present your work at a final conference
- enhance your international profile by taking part in a Summer School at a university abroad
Are you up for the challenge? Apply for 
admission or contact youngleadersleague@uu.nl for more information.