We’re sharing the latest youth climate opportunities from our friends at other organisations!
If you have an opportunity that you’d like us to share in future round-ups, email: roberta@theresilienceproject.org.uk
Awards & Competitions
Young Inventors Prize
The European Patent Office seeks international nominations from young innovators (age 30 and under) creating a more sustainable future for all.
Apply before 30 September 2026
Blue Earth Impact Prize
Applications are open for the BE:IMPACT Prize. Created by Blue Earth with Founding Partner The Kindness Forecast, BE is a new £15,000 prize for small and mid-sized UK charities with powerful campaigns ready to go further. Six finalists will pitch live on the Main Stage at Blue Earth Summit on 14 October, gaining funding, visibility, mentoring and access to new supporters.
Apply before 21 September 2026
Proposals for Programming at COP31
Climate Live is opening its COP31 Blue Zone space to voices, ideas and initiatives from around the world. Are you a youth-led group, community initiative, cultural institution or international organisation with something to bring to the climate conversation?
Submit your expression of interest by 20 September 2026
Youth Conservation Leadership Award
The WWF Youth Conservation Leadership Award is open to applications from young people (aged 18-30) leading conservation solutions in the United States, celebrating outstanding contributions to community resilience and biodiversity protection.
Apply by 18 September 2026
Events
The Hopeful Book Club
The Resilience Project are launching a free online book club for young people in East Africa. Join us read ‘Act, Rest, Reset, Repeat’ by our founder, Katie Hodgetts, and explore how to build resilience through rest, community, connection and celebration through a shared love of reading.
Meeting every second Tuesday from the 15th September
Community Circle
For those working or volunteering in activism, wellbeing, or social justice – The Joyful Activists host an online space to rest and reconnect. Join a monthly, free community circle for guided meditation and open-hearted sharing. It’s an hour to pause, to feel, to be heard, and to remember that we’re not alone in this work.
Next event taking place on Thursday 1 October via Zoom
Training Programmes
AU–EU Youth Exchange for Young Refugee & Migrant Artivists (France & Uganda)
Artivism Without Borders is looking for 18-35-year-old artists, creatives and artivists, with a migrant or refugee background, based in Kampala and Île-de-France, France, to take part in a joint participatory arts process. Participants will collaborate as equal partners to co-create artistic works that challenge stereotypes and promote more inclusive narratives around migration, identity and belonging from September 2026 to May 2027, through Artivism Labs combining workshops, peer learning, artistic collaboration, and public showcases.
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis
Climate Café Facilitator Training (Australia)
If you are based in Australia and would like to learn how to host and facilitate Climate Cafés in your local community, Psychology for a Safe Climate are offering a low-cost training package in order to learn how to guide these spaces and bring this transformative work to communities across Australia.
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis
A Young Persons Guide to Re-Imagining the Economy
The Young Person’s Guide to Re-Imagining the Economy is a free 3-part series from Doughnut Economics and Climate Youth Resilience — for young people ready to look at where their ideas of “success” actually came from, and imagine what else is possible.
Workshops taking place 10, 17 and 24 September
Fellowships
UNESCO/Japan Young Researchers’ Fellowships Programme
This programme, supported by the government of Japan, gives young researchers the opportunity to pursue postgraduate research. This year, 10 fellowships will be granted to highly qualified young researchers from Africa, Small Island Developing States, Ukraine and Türkiye, who work on heritage conservation and management, sustainable development and AI, with particular attention to interdisciplinary research connecting these themes with social, ethical, governance and contextual dimensions.
Applications close 30 September 2026
Climate Policy Fellowship
Participatory Governance Lab and Maadhyam are launching the Climate Policy Fellowship which is a four-month learning and action journey for young people in Delhi interested in climate, public policy, governance and urban issues. An in-person opportunity for 18-30 year olds.
Apply before 18 September 2026
Climate75 Leadership Program
The Starfish have opened applications for a six-month program for youth ages 18 to 25 who want to understand how change happens for the good and build the skills to make it. This year, explore the theme ‘Nature as Living Heritage’ with a cohort of climate-curious young people from across so-called Canada.
Apply before 18 September 2026 at 11:59 PST
Resources
The Ecomind Certificate
ECOMIND are offering a series of three 90-minute workshops which share tools to regulate stress, process climate emotions, prevent burnout, support each other and sustain long-term impact. Suitable for anyone feeling the impacts of the climate crisis and trying to create change, whether through volunteering, work or study.
Rolling bases; Scholarships available
Funding
Call for Proposals
The European Youth Foundation welcomes proposals for one-off meetings of young people which contribute to the development of international understanding and solidarity.
Apply before 1 October 2026
Voices of the Future – Brazil
The Pulitzer Center seeks proposals from graduate students in Brazil who wish to amplify their writing around socio-economic issues and climate challenges across the country.
Apply by 30 September 2026
Climate Catalyst Fund
United States Climate Action Network (USCAN) is rewarding $1m of grants directly to frontline communities fighting for their health and economic survival.
Apply ASAP
Sowing the Seeds of Change Programme
Kenya Community Development Foundation (KCDF) has opened funding applications from youth-led organisations (at least 70% of the leadership is aged 29 or under) working on biodiversity protection, natural resource management and/or community based environmental action.
Apply before 15 September 2026
Innovation Grants
The AU-EU Youth Action Lab invites applications from non-profit organisations led by young people (aged 18-35) in eligible African countries, who are building innovative solutions to global challenges and creating opportunities in their communities and beyond.
Apply before 23 September 2026
Ambassadors
Regional Wildflower Ambassadors
Sylvester Rewilding are launching their Collaborative Intergenerational Wildflower Campaign across Europe and are looking for regional ambassadors to bring wildflower-powered, blooming biodiversity to their neighbourhoods! As a regional ambassador, you’ll work Sylvester Rewilding to help people in your area turn ordinary lawns and green spaces into little wildflower havens for bees, butterflies and other insects.
Apply ASAP
Support
One-to-One Therapeutic Support
The Climate Psychology Alliance offers up to three free sessions with a qualified professional. Available to anyone over 18 who is experiencing eco-related distress, including distress arriving from activism, climate-related work or simply the weight of living in an unfolding crisis.
Email support@climatepsychologyalliance.org for more information
