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2021 Earth Leadership Fellowship for Canada, Mexico, and the United States

Australia: 2021-22 Mini Grant Program

Deadline: 29 May 2020

The Earth Leadership Program invites mid career academic environmental scientists from North America (Canada, Mexico, and the United States) to apply for the 2021 Earth Leadership Fellowships.

The program provides researchers with the skills, approaches, and theoretical frameworks for catalyzing change to address the world’s most pressing sustainability challenges.

The program prepares researchers to work together as effective agents of change by providing tools and perspectives to help participants cross traditional disciplinary and sector boundaries. Collaborating with other researchers as well as networks of stakeholders is critical when addressing complex sustainability challenges.

The fellowship training model is built around this collaborative approach that values co-designing with diverse stakeholders. In this model, a leader mobilizes a group to action by working with the group toward a shared vision. This involves navigating conflict through an iterative process that enables people to serve in their most effective operational roles. Knowledge alone is not the mark of growth, but rather self-awareness and reflection on learning.

The outcomes of the training are geared toward tools that enable groups to self-organize and transform systems in a networked way, rather than simply improving personal skills or preparing faculty to become higher education administrators.

Through a competitive process, the program selects up to 20 Fellows annually to participate in two intensive training sessions a year apart to build and enhance their skills for leading change from local to global scales. The goal of this program is to create a community of engaged scientific leaders who link their knowledge to decision-making about the environment and sustainability.

The program seeks candidates in a broad range of disciplines, including the biophysical and social sciences and technical, medical, and engineering fields related to the environment and sustainability.

The 2021 training schedule is:

What’s the training experience?

Areas of Focus

Funding Information

The Earth Leadership program will fund all expenses for the two intensive training sessions for each fellow by merging the financial support that have already secured with a contribution of $9,000 for each fellow from their home institution. This may be allocated over the two years of the program (2021 and 2022), so would amount to $4,500 per year from each institution.

Target Audience

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants from a wide range of disciplines are encouraged. All must possess:

Selection Process

A Selection Jury of 12 to 18 members drawn from the program’s Advisory Board, alumni of the Leopold Leadership Program and others reviews the applications and selects new Fellows, using the selection criteria.To ensure an objective evaluation with no actual or possible perceived conflicts of interest in the review process, no Selection Jury member is assigned to review a Fellowship candidate in any of the following categories:

For more information, visit https://glp.earth/news-events/news/call-applications-earth-leadership-program

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