Application is Now Open: UNICEF Leading Minds Climate Education Fellowship:

Are you looking to… 

✅ Document, strengthen, and elevate your climate education initiatives? 

✅ Contribute to youth-led research, foresight, and systems thinking? 

✅ Shape policy and participate in national and global dialogues? 

✅ Produce stories, tools, and evidence that improve education systems?  

✅ Co-design and co-host strategic convenings? 

Then the UNICEF’s Leading Minds Climate Education Fellowship is for you. 

About 

UNICEF is selecting up to 12 young climate leaders (ages 10–30) who are strengthening climate education in their schools, communities, and countries in both formal and informal settings.  

These Leading Minds Climate Education Fellows will join a global cohort shaping policy, elevating youth-led initiatives, and helping design strategic convenings.   

The Climate Education Fellowship is a youth-led, youth-centered initiative designed to strengthen the global understanding of what works in climate education. The Fellowship focuses on building a robust evidence base through youth-driven research, foresight, and strategic convening.  

UNICEF’s aim is to surface the systems-level levers—across education, governance, finance, and communities—that enable transformative climate learning.  

Fellows will examine barriers, enablers, and scalable models, contributing insights that shape future policy, investment, and practice.  

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