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Get Engaged Conference

Not a Traditional Academic Conference
Growing a network of young social entrepreneurs and change agents who are actively using the liberal arts as a tool to develop solutions to challenges in their communities.

Empowering Young Leaders of Change

  • Photo by Xenia Muth.
    About the Conference
    The Get Engaged Conference brings together students from across the world to develop community leadership skills and collaborate on solutions to local and global challenges. Workshops focus on leadership, public speaking, networking, social media, community partnerships, innovation and creativity, fundraising and grant writing, and emotional intelligence.
  • Global Engagement Fellows
    Global Engagement Fellows promote and coordinate thematic civic engagement projects across international network institutions. Fellows have developed and sustained a civic engagement project and demonstrated leadership skills and a desire and aptitude for working with others.
    MEET THE 2021–22 GLOBAL FELLOWS

Get Engaged 2021

Get Engaged: Student Action and Youth Leadership Conference on "Learning Resiliency and Unity Beyond Borders"

From April 10-11, 2021, over 150 student leaders from sixteen institutions explored what it means to be civically engaged by attending two days of workshops, presentations, and activities offering a range of ideas and experiences to help develop community leadership skills.  The large group of students in attendance drew on a wide variety of backgrounds, experiences and interests, representing OSUN’s broad global network of institutions that stretch from Berlin to Taiwan. 

Get Engaged by the Numbers

Get Engaged by the Numbers

  • 47
    Students
  • 415
    Project Team Members
  • 5,200+
    People Impacted
  • $7,275
    Microgrants

Support for Alumni/ae Projects

  • Microgrants
    Microgrants are awarded to Get Engaged alumni/ae to deepen or initiate student-led engagement projects or to connect two or more projects across the international network.

2020 Microgrant Winners

Dana Abu-Kash, Al-Quds Bard College
The International Court of Justice in Palestine

Mays Abuatwn, Al-Quds Bard College
Intra Pal

Wisdom Kalu, Ashesi University
Code4All

Zar Sarmast, American University of Central Asia
Afghanistan Politics on the Verge of Transformation

Homayoon Sarwari, American University of Central Asia
Photography Training (Dikundi Province)

Dilshod Hamroboev, American University of Central Asia
Summer Camp on Project Management

Nurmukhamad Turkbaev, American University of Central Asia
South Youth Association

Pilar Petropoulos, Bard College Berlin
Pankumenta

Oceanne Fry, Bard College Berlin
Shore

Hani Portner, Bard College Berlin
Condom Fairy

Alina Kanashenka, European Humanities University
Keep In Touch

Anhelina Shablouskaya, European Humanities University
EHU Student Network Initiative

Daniil Sarakula, European Humanities University
Never Forget

Vu Duc Huy, Fulbright University Vietnam
Youth Engagement Training Initiative (YETI)


Leadership

Erin Cannan, Bard
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