Scholarship applicants

Deadline: 30 April 2024

The Global Campus of Human Rights is offering a number of allowance opportunities (subject to approval of external funding) in the form of tuition waivers and/or partial reimbursement of expenses to applicants who can demonstrate to have a strong environmental rights component and a project proposal having an impact preferably on younger generations and/or local communities.

Selection criteria for scholarship recipients are:

• Fluency in written and spoken English
• Experience of or interest in environmental rights-related issues
• A project proposal related to environmental rights which can have impact preferably on younger generations and/or local communities
• Experience of or interest in working in visual media
• Strong motivation focused on the ability or potential to benefit the public or a particular community or sector by attending the Summer School.

Furthermore, applications from talented young women and men between 18 and 25 who wish to broaden their interest in combining environmental rights with advocacy and visual media are encouraged.

Candidates should fill in the application form by demonstrating how their participation at the Summer School will further develop their contribution to environmental rights-related issues and to their future career and what is the expected impact of their project in impacting younger generations and/or local communities.

Shortlisted candidates will undergo a 10-minute interview on Zoom.

Benefits

• Tuition waivers will be waived the full tuition fee which includes lunches and coffee breaks on class days and the Venice Film Festival accreditation.
• Other allowance opportunities can be granted to participants in need in the form of partial reimbursement of expenses such as transportation, accommodation, meals during the programme on an ad hoc basis.