Academia x Oxford: Map the System 2026 – Applications are open

The greatest opportunity of your study journey. Applications are OPEN!

Do you want to strengthen your leadership skills? Experience Oxford? Become part of a global competition where the best young minds are changing the world? Then Academia x Oxford: Map the System 2026 is a programme you MUST NOT miss.

Academia is once again exclusively connected with the University of Oxford – one of the most prestigious institutions in the world. Your opportunity to step onto the world stage is here.

🚀 Why apply?

Because you get an opportunity that would be hard to find elsewhere: 100% scholarship, mentorship, international experience and a trip to Oxford. And that's not all. 👇

🎓 Academia x Oxford Map the System Certificate

Proof that you understand complex problems systemically and can think like world leaders.

💼 Recognised hours of practical training

You can count your applied 'Map the System' research as a work placement. An extracurricular project that is truly worthwhile.

✈ Fully funded Erasmus+ exchange in Oxford & London

A week of professional visits, lectures, cultural experiences and networking events. Travel and accommodation costs are covered by the Erasmus+ programme scholarship.

💸 Registration fee? For others 1,800 EUR.

For Academia students? 0 EUR. Because we want to give you an opportunity, not a financial barrier.

🤩 What is Map the System?

A global programme of the Skoll Centre and Saïd Business School (University of Oxford) – where students from around the world research the greatest social and environmental challenges and learn systems thinking.

Every year, the best teams present their work in Oxford.

This year, YOU could be standing there.

🏆 Your path to Oxford

Event

Date

Application deadline31 January 2026Programme start at Academia (hybrid meetings mostly once a week)March 2026Local competition at Academia13 May 2026Oxford & London excursion8–13 July 2026Global competition in Oxford8–13 July 2026

The global competition takes place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford – with international teams, top lecturers and a prize fund:

• First prize – £5,000
• Second prize – £4,000
• Third prize – £3,500

🎯 Who can apply?

👉 All Academia students, from any programme and year of study 👉 Individually or in a team (up to 5 members) 👉 No prior knowledge required – you learn everything as you go

🧭 What awaits you?

• 6 modules of systems thinking, developed at Oxford,
• mentorship,
• researching a real social challenge,
• creating visual system maps,
• presentation before a panel,
• the possibility of being sent to OXFORD as a winner.

This is more than a competition. This is a springboard into the career you want. This is the opportunity of a lifetime.

👉 Application by 31 January 2026 – HERE.

Step out of the ordinary. Become a global thinker. Experience Oxford.

Academia x Oxford Map the System 2026 – because you have the potential to change the world. 🌍✨

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Academia x Oxford: Map the System 2026 – Prijave so odprte

Academia x Oxford: Map the System 2026 – Prijave so odprte

Source: Academia (9. 12. 2025). Fotografije: arhiv Academie.

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