19/03/2026
Applications are now open for the Himalayan Climate Watch Network Fellowship.
We are inviting Indigenous and frontline storytellers, researchers, and practitioners from across the Himalayan region whose work is grounded in community, lived experience, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK).
This fellowship is grounded on a simple but urgent belief that climate knowledge does not begin in reports or institutions. It exists within communities, in memory, in practice, in language, and in the ways people have long understood and responded to their environments.
Through this fellowship, we aim to document, strengthen, and bring forward these knowledge systems, not as extractive stories, but as living, evolving practices that shape climate resilience and futures on the ground.
We are looking for people who are already embedded in their contexts. People who are not speaking about communities from a distance, but working within them, listening, documenting, and contributing with care.
Selected fellows will develop stories rooted in TEK and community knowledge, in collaboration with partners including Mongabay India, Meander Magazine, Icarus Complex Magazine, Earth Journalism Network, and Rooted Futures Lab.
Apply: hcwn.org/fellowship
Deadline: 28 March, 23:59 CET
We encourage thoughtful and grounded applications.
Developed within the Mudland Climate Lab, with initial support from beVisioneers The Mercedes-Benz Fellowship
