Ripple
€1,000
Get your name into the movement.
- Your logo on our website and materials
- Recognition in our annual impact report
- A thank-you across our channels
Partner with The VALE
Back the leaders who’ll shape the next decade
We train young, value-driven leaders from Europe’s civil society. Grants fund our projects. Sponsors fund what grants can’t.
In good company
Trusted by funders and partners across Europe
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…including 13 Youth For Understanding organisations and 6 Global Shapers hubs across Europe.
131
young leaders through our residential courses since 2018
24
countries our participants call home
1,500+
people reached through our educational work
4.5
out of 5 – our latest Nordic funding bid, against a 2.3 average
The impact of our programmes
A course is where the ripples start
Our courses last weeks. What they set in motion lasts for years.
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They’re chosen
131
young leaders from 24 countries, selected from 239 applicants across six cohorts since 2018.
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They teach it forward
95%
of our 2021 cohort went on to teach others what they learned. Their 21 workshops reached 369 people that year alone.
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They step up
90%+
felt more likely to take on a leadership role. A year on, half of their organisations had already seen their work or motivation grow – and none saw a decline.
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They come back
14
of our participants have also helped run The VALE as team members, and almost half of all participants first heard of us from an alum or trainer. In December, alumni gather again in Hamburg.
The Symposium · Hamburg, 5 December
Sources: The VALE participant census 2018–2026 and our 2021 Erasmus+ final report. See all our projects
Why sponsorship matters
Grants fund projects.
You fund the movement.
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Continuity
Grants end when projects end. Your support keeps the team, the alumni network and the next big idea alive in between.
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Access
It covers the fees and travel that grants don’t, so money is never the reason a great young leader stays at home.
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Courage
It lets us pilot what doesn’t fit a funding call yet – and turn the best experiments into the programmes of tomorrow.
Choose your wave
Every partnership starts small – and spreads
Most impact per euro
Wave
€5,000
Your people in the room.
- Everything in Ripple
- Seats at our public Symposium
- Invitations to meet our community
- Access to alumni talks and content
Tide
€50,000
We build something together.
- Everything in Wave
- A tailored workshop for your team
- A co-branded session or named scholarship
- A direct line into how we grow
Every partnership is tailored – and values alignment comes first.
The VALE has definitely changed my life in a way that I still can’t even completely describe.
It’s almost as if the week showed me some sort of direction.
Tough conversations are not as hard as they might seem before having them.
It was not just a course, but a process.
Let’s make waves
The first step is a 20-minute call. No pitch deck, no pressure – just a conversation about what we could build together.
Book a call with ErikErik Sundberg · Chair & Co-Founder · erik@thevale.eu