Call for Applications: Youth Rising Creative Workshop for Academic Freedom 2025
Ready to shake things up? The call for application for Youth Rising Creative Workshop 2025 – Southeast Asian Youth for Academic Freedom happening on October 31 – November 1, 2025 is now open.
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SEA Coalition for Academic Freedom is organizing the first Youth Rising Creative Workshop. We envisioned this as a nexus of academic freedom and artistic freedom among young people — a creative workshop that brings together students, young scholars, and artists to explore how imagination and critical inquiry can confront repression and inspire collective action in academic spaces and in solidarity with academic communities and other stakeholders.
Young people must be able to engage with educators, researchers, civil society actors, and policy advocates to bridge perspectives, co-create strategies, and collectively uphold the right to education and free inquiry. Through participatory dialogue, art-making, storytelling and content creation, the workshop seeks to reclaim campuses and classrooms as spaces of freedom, while amplifying youth voices in the broader struggle for rights, democracy, and social justice in Southeast Asia.
The camp program aims to support this ecosystem by empowering youth to participate in cross-cutting conversations and alliances for academic freedom — a form of engaged scholarship.
- FULLY-FUNDED OPPORTUNITY
- 15 selected youth participants, aged 18-30 years old from across Southeast ASia
- October 31 – November 1, 2025
- Mahidol University, Salaya Campus, Thailand (about 25 km from central Bangkok)
- Deadline of Application – September 26, 2025
If you have suggestions for SEACAF activities, or would like SEACAF to organize learning sessions on academic freedom for your peers and communities, please contact us at info@seacaf.org