Dear students,
We write to warmly invite you and your school to participate in our, now Digital, Global Summit for Young Leaders. D-GSYL is a unique summit experience open to secondary school students who are ready to embark on the next major segment of their academic career.
GSYL is an independently-run event founded in 2018 and is organised by a core team of Fellows from the University of Oxford. Our mission statement is simple. It’s hard for ambitious youth to find important challenges to work on, become passionate about, and dedicate themselves to. As such, we teach the skills, provide mentors and guidance, and create a collaborative environment to help young leaders tackle the pressing challenges of tomorrow.
The strength of our programme lies in its mentors and speakers, which comprise of professors and researchers from the University of Oxford along with specialists from industry, medicine, business, the humanities, and the social sciences. Our collective experience covers both breadth and depth. Seminars are crafted around unique experiences and case studies, and they are formatted to stimulate dialogue and immersion. The world is too big for traditional classrooms and textbooks; we teach design thinking for creative and practical real-world problem solving.
The theme for this year’s summit is, 2020 Vision: Future Changemakers. Our speakers and instructors will lead their discourses around a theme of creativity, sustainability, personal storytelling, and the methods and processes of innovative thinking.
Once applications are received and decisions are made regarding acceptances, we will further tailor our programme to fit students’ interests and intended focus areas. We will host keynote speakers and fellows from subject-specific areas to lead seminars and workshops. The link between the disciplines is key to innovative thinking. Our unique approach to tailor content to the student audience is a key feature of our Summit.
This year’s summit has now been redesigned for high-quality online access, and will take place on 20–31 July 2020, in collaboration with Knowledge Collective, a global experiential learning company with the aim of forging future leaders. We will be updating our website regularly as we announce our summit agenda, the speakers for this year, as well as other perks and benefits! We very much hope that you will join us this summer!
Sincerely,
Programme Directors
GSYL 2020
