New Futures Fellowship

Organizer: Planet Reimagined

Description:

The New Futures Fellowship is a three-month fellowship that melds rigorous research with creative advocacy, to fight the climate crisis and deliver fair solutions for people and the planet. 

New Futures Fellowships are awarded to recent or current graduate students in Research and Advocacy. Research and Advocacy Fellows work together virtually in teams assembled from different backgrounds and fields of study, combining researchers and communicators who share a passion for social change. Team members are guided by a professional advisor and collaborate on a project based on the themes for the year.  

Throughout the Fellowship period, visiting speakers bring perspectives from a range of institutions: from Microsoft to the Financial Times to the United Nations to Action Aid. Fellows also benefit from professional development and training in effective public communication about complex sustainability topics, and advocacy tools to advance policies or project solutions. 

Each team produces an academic-style position paper proposing a solution, and an advocacy plan with multimedia products to publicize their findings. Planet Reimagined publishes the position papers and boosts each team’s creative content through Planet Reimagined’s communications networks and digital channels. We work with our media and entertainment partners to make fellowship research and advocacy solutions and campaigns highly visible to the public, reach key audiences who can influence policy and practice, and turn research into action. 

In three years, we’ve had 1000s of applicants from 78 countries for 27 summer fellowships.  (That’s a lower acceptance rate than Harvard).

Past Fellowship themes have included the interactions of climate justice with health, oceans, waste, urban farming, the music industry, and Web3. 

Applications due by: March 10, 2023

Click here to apply.