Brightest Young Minds

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South Africa

Description

Brightest Young Minds (BYM) was founded in 2000 with the vision to create a platform that showcased the potential of South Africa’s brightest young minds in order to fast-track their development for the benefit of country. Initially BYM only offered a summit. The week-long experience bridged the gap between students and the professional world, encouraged students to share ideas amongst inspiring peers and allowed partner companies to pose specific challenges facing their businesses to a group of bright, young South Africans. In BYM’s early days, observers understood the summit as one of the few opportunities in SA for students to have completely interracial, interdisciplinary and intercampus engagement. Diversity remains a core tenet of the organization. The summit itself has been an example of innovation, exposing delegates to different facilitation techniques like appreciative inquiry, open-space technology and scenario planning, and providing them the space to creatively solve relevant social, cultural, environmental or economic challenges. The number of applications for the BYM programme now reach over 2000 per year. From 2002, BYM introduced delegate opportunities beyond the summit, organizing mentoring programs, training and development seminars and project/business development supports. BYM is looking to transform the summit from the BYM mainstay into the BYM entry point by providing the network with structured opportunities to connect and mobilize their ideas.

Details

Name of Primary Programme Brightest Young Minds	Numbers of programme participants annually 25 - 250	Telephone Number +27 61 279 2233
Programme Type Leadership Networking Programme	Region from which participants are selected Various, Northern Africa, West Africa, East Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa	Organisation website http://bym.co.za
Programme Funders Corporate	African country or countries of programme delivery South Africa	Programme Contact email info@bym.co.za
Corporate funders Barclays; Connemara; Matchboxology	Region of programme delivery Southern Africa	Country of operation South Africa
Programme Start Date 2000	Are programmes continuing? Yes	Organisation Name Brightest Young Minds

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