We empower current and future leaders

SI leadership programmes and scholarships aim to strengthen current and aspiring leaders. Each year, nearly a thousand changemakers and global leaders participate in programmes that contribute to a sustainable development in their home countries and regions.
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SI leadership programmes empower leaders from the public and private sector and the civil society in their work to promote sustainable development. Every year around 700 changemakers from countries in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia are selected to join our leadership programmes.

SI Scholarship for Global Professionals grants around 350 fully funded scholarships each year for master studies in Sweden with the aim to develop future global leaders that contribute to sustainable development in their home countries and regions.

Participants in our leadership- and scholarship programmes all get an access to unique networks for professional exchange with each other and with Sweden. Scholarship holders join the Network for Future Global Professionals, a platform to help them grow professionally while in Sweden.

Diplomaceremony 2016. Photo: Magnus Liam Karlsson
SI Scholarship for Global Professionals
SI Scholarship for Global Professionals is a fully funded international scholarship programme for master studies. Each year around 350 scholarships are granted with the aim to develop global leaders who can contribute to a sustainable development in their home countries and regions.
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Participants of SIMP Africa and SIMP Bolivia in 2019. Photo: Elliot Elliot
Swedish Institute Management Programme
Swedish Institute Management Programme (SIMP) is a leadership programme with a sustainability focus for ambitious and innovative business leaders from Africa, Asia, Northern and Eastern Europe. The programme is based on Sweden’s prominent position in innovation and sustainable business.  
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She Entrepreneurs – connecting visionary women founders since 2011. Photo: Margareta Bloom Sandebäck
She Entrepreneurs
She Entrepreneurs is a leadership programme for highly motivated women entrepreneurs in the Middle East, North Africa and Türkiye who are building successful and sustainable businesses. The programme offers the participants knowledge, provides tangible tools, and an exchange of experiences that helps them develop as entrepreneurs and leaders, and to grow their businesses.
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Photo: Margareta Bloom Sandebaeck
SI Leader Lab
SI Leader Lab is a leadership programme for civil society leaders in South Asia, North Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe focused on Sustainable Development Goal 16 to promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies. The programme provides participants with innovative tools and a broad network that aims to strengthen their leadership and advocacy skills. 
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Photo: Susanne Walström
SI Academy for Young Professional
SI Academy for Young Professionals (SAYP) is a leadership programme for young professionals, working in the public sector or civil society from the western Balkans, Baltic Sea region and Eastern partnership countries who want to deepen their knowledge about modern sustainable governance. SAYP is a collaboration between SI and prominent Swedish universities, who are responsible for training module structure and development.
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