Selective programmes, verified by hand
The opportunities you actually get into.
Selective programmes with a real organiser, a real deadline and a real funder — including the ones that never make it online.
Who we are
Most of what's selective never makes it online. It travels by word of mouth — a teacher who happens to know, a group chat you weren't in. OffMap is where that word of mouth gets written down, verified, and put on a deadline.
Opportunities
SCROLL ↓TEDx Athens Youth
Open call · 16–19 · Athens
Web Summit Lisbon — Student Pass
Discounted · 18+ · Lisbon
Athens Science Festival
Free entry · 15–19 · Athens
Youth Diplomacy Forum
Travel funded · 16–20 · Brussels
Climate Futures Summit
Fully funded · 17–21 · Berlin
Model UN — The Hague
Self-funded · 16–19 · The Hague
Junction Hack Athens
Weekend · 17–24 · Athens
NASA Space Apps Piraeus
Weekend · 15–24 · Piraeus
HackTheBank Fintech
Prize pool · 18–25 · Remote
AI4Good Hackathon
Fully funded · 16–22 · Thessaloniki
Girls Who Code Jam
Free · 14–18 · Remote
Robotics Build-Off
Weekend · 15–19 · Patras
MIT PRIMES-USA
Fully funded · 16–18 · Remote
CERN Summer School
Stipend · 18–24 · Geneva
Piraeus Robotics Bootcamp
Funded · 16–19 · Piraeus
Oxford Summer Politics
Fee-based, bursaries · 17–19 · Oxford
Deep Learning Intensive
Free · 18+ · Remote
Marine Biology Fieldwork
Funded · 17–20 · Crete
Conferences · Hackathons · Courses — three registers, one deadline spine. Mock listings shown.
How it works
Browse
Filter by effort, not just category — coffee break, weekend trip, or aim higher.
The effort ladder is the primary filter, above type and field — reach and prep time first.
Run by people who found the gaps themselves
Ambassadors and contributors across the network, verifying listings and finding the ones that never made it online.
Elena A.
“Started because I missed a fellowship deadline by one week.”
Nikos K.
“I find the ones that only exist on a school noticeboard.”
Maria P.
“Verifying funding claims is the whole job, honestly.”
Dimitris L.
“Every listing I submit, I imagine my 16-year-old self reading it.”
The network runs on people who show up for someone they'll never meet.
An ambassador isn't a job title. It's noticing a deadline before it matters to someone else, and writing it down so it doesn't disappear.