IPLOCA Scholarship

Applications are open for the 2025 IPLOCA Scholarship Programme

Each year, IPLOCA offers scholarships for students to pursue a full-time undergraduate degree in their chosen field of study. Since 2016, the scholarship has reached more than 160 students around the world.

We are proud to have helped students achieve their educational goals and to have contributed to the next

generation’s start in the workforce. Should your company wish to promote education by sponsoring the programme, please contact Georges Hage, georges.hage@iploca.com

To be eligible applicants must:

- be children or grandchildren (biological, step or adopted), aged 26 years and under, of full-time or part-time (where required by country specific regulations) employees of IPLOCA Regular or Associate Members as of the application deadline 15 March 2025

- be students in their final year of upper or higher secondary school or currently be technical or university level students

- plan to enrol in full-time undergraduate study at a bona fide college, university, vocational, technical or trade school for the entire upcoming academic year

IPLOCA awards scholarships annually. The amount of each scholarship is USD 4,500.

We encourage all IPLOCA members to publicise this programme as widely as possible within their organisations.

Applications must be made online at: www.iploca.com/ committees/scholarship-programme/application /

News from the Scholarship Project

Saji Khoury, Scholarship Project Lead

Last year, for the first time, the project team took matters into its own hands, reviewing applications internally instead of outsourcing the process—and we did a great job!

However, we quickly realised the application process could use some fine-tuning based on lessons learned, so we have made updates to improve the process.

With 114 applicants last year (and even more expected this year), we are excited to once again award 12 scholarships. To ensure fairness, the top scorer from each of the eight regions will receive a scholarship, while the remaining four will go to the highest overall scorers.

News from the NextGen Network

Saji Khoury, NextGen Network Project Lead

The NextGen Network is proud to have over 30 active members engaging in our initiatives. We have been hosting monthly calls that provide an excellent platform for networking and learning.

To tap into the vast knowledge within IPLOCA, we have also been inviting industry leaders to share their insights. So far, we’ve had Roberto Castelli, IPLOCA’s Immediate

Past President, discuss his career journey and offer valuable advice. We also hosted Herwig Peschl, Senior Vice President at Caterpillar Inc., who spoke about leadership and shared key takeaways with NextGen members. And there’s more to come - we have several exciting speakers lined up in the coming months! Beyond virtual sessions, we are thrilled that six NextGen members participated in the HSE & CSR Workshop and the Novel Construction Session in Lisbon in October.

We anticipate even greater participation at the IPLOCA Novel Construction Spring Session 2025 in Palermo in April.