Application Deadline: September 21, 2014

Twice a year, the TED Fellows program opens applications to find a new class of extraordinary thinkers and doers. Though TED target innovators aged 21 to 40,  anyone over 18 years old are encouraged to apply.

TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profitSapling Foundation, under the slogan: “Ideas Worth Spreading.

The TED Fellows program is designed to bring together young world-changers and trailblazers who have shown unusual accomplishment and exceptional courage. The program targets individuals from the Asia/Pacific region, Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Middle East, though anyone from anywhere in the world, age 18 and over, is welcome to apply.

Who should apply

• Instead of business people, professionals, policy wonks and government officials, the TED Fellows program focuses on doers, makers, inventors, advocates, filmmakers and photographers, musicians and artists, scientists…