800+
Sparks Graduates
For the 2025–2026 program year, the Sparks Program received 550 applications from young women representing 135 universities across 76 cities in Türkiye. Following a multi-stage, competency-based selection process, 112 participants were accepted into the program, reflecting a 20% acceptance rate.
This year, the Sparks curriculum deepens around two core learning areas: Wellbeing and Gender Equality. The Wellbeing Module is grounded in the PERMAH Model, offering workshops and group coaching sessions designed to strengthen participants’ resilience, self-awareness, and emotional wellbeing. The Gender Equality Module, by contrast to many environments where young women’s ideas are questioned or constrained, creates a space where leadership, participation, and gender roles are explored without limitation. Participants collectively examine power dynamics and gender norms, ensuring these structures do not hinder their confidence, potential, or growth as change leaders. The program’s impact framework has also been strengthened through a comprehensive Theory of Change, completed during the 2024–2025 period.
The Sparks Program approaches leadership not as a hierarchical or power-centered concept, but as a new-generation, empowering model grounded in collaboration, shared responsibility, and collective growth.
Through principles such as purpose-driven motivation, psychological safety, low fear of failure, and shared leadership, the program aims to empower young women not as the leaders of tomorrow, but as the leaders of today.
