Call scheduled for September 2024.

Every year, the BBK Foundation together with UN Etxea offers two grants with the aim of facilitating a professional internship at the Headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in Paris.

15 young people from Biscay have received this six-month long grant since 2014. All grant beneficiaries have had the opportunity to pursue their professional career in UNESCO.

Call scheduled for September 2024.

UN Etxea, with the collaboration of the International Catholic Centre in Geneva, organises regular training on the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva and its standard-setting instruments.

This programme of training grants facilitates a practical experience of the UN’s work to uphold human rights. The programme combines a theoretical component with practical in-person participation in various areas of the Human Rights Council.

Call for applications 2024 closed.

UN Etxea together with the Directorate of Human Rights, Victims and Diversity of the Basque Government offers a specialisation grant at the Headquarters of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva, Switzerland, with the aim of providing training experience to a young person from the Basque Country in the field of Human Rights.

The beneficiary of the grant will join the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) for a period of 6 months.

Non-active grants

No call for applications in 2024

We have managed the UN Grants programme since 1997, with funding from the Basque Agency for Development Cooperation.

Since 1997, some 190 young people have been awarded these grants and joined UNESCO offices in impoverished countries, thus beginning a professional career in international cooperation and the UN.

Non-active grants

No call for applications in 2024

With the support of the Basque Government’s Natural Heritage and Climate Change Directorate, UN Etxea runs two annual grant programmes for a paid practical training residency in the Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve.

Non-active grants

No call for applications in 2024

With the support of the Department of Basque and Culture in Biscay Regional Council, UN Etxea awards grants for paid practical training within its culture for development programme.