EST Academy 2026

The European Student Think Tank is pleased to announce its 2026 EST Academy: Multipolar World Order: Policy, Power and Public Communication.

The European Student Think Tank is pleased to launch the Call for Applications for the EST Academy 2026 – an international, interdisciplinary, and impact-oriented programme bringing together young researchers, students, and professionals from across Europe and beyond.

The Academy responds to one of the defining challenges of our time: understanding and communicating policy complexity in an increasingly multipolar and fragmented world. As global governance becomes challenged by competing centres of power, fragmented information ecosystems, geopolitical rivalry, and diverging narratives, the ability not only to analyse policy but also to communicate it effectively has become essential.

EST Academy 2026 combines policy analysis, institutional understanding, public communication, and applied learning through a coherent and highly interactive learning pathway. Rather than functioning as a traditional lecture-based programme, the Academy places participants at the centre of the learning experience through debates, policy simulations, policy labs, media analyses, stakeholder mapping exercises, collaborative group work, and hands-on communication activities.

Participants will engage directly with world-class experts coming from policymaking institutions, think tanks, academia, international organisations, journalism, and civil society. The programme is specifically designed to expose participants to a plurality of professional perspectives, governance traditions, and regional experiences.

As part of the Building for the Future Initiative by On Think Tanks, EST Academy 2026 will feature experts and practitioners from multiple regions of the world, going beyond a solely European perspective and enabling participants to engage with truly global policy debates.

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Deadline for applications: June 26th, 23:59 CEST.