Docskool Climate Fellowship
Climate Fellowship is a one-year media, climate action training and internship for young people of indigenous, adivasi origin. The fellowship brings 10 participants for a foundation visual arts training with 5 months of community engagement.
The fellowship doubles as a media initiative producing IEC and resources on community led climate actions. Large number of Civil society partners, and community based collectives join the fellowship as facilitators of the learning curve. Fellows work on issues ranging from conservation, risk mitigation, knowledge documentation, case study management among others. Graduating fellows become highly valuable members of communities as media creators able to support advocacy, knowledge management needs of local campaigns.
We invite civil society organisations, climate collectives to join us as partners to facilitate the fellowship jointly.
Program Structure
- Media foundation training (4 months)
- Community participatory learning and mentorship (4 months)
- Advanced Workshops (1 month)
- Individual Project (1 month)
When is it happening
- The fellowship is expected to be available from April 2025.
Ho can one engage
- We invite climate sensitive partners to join us by sponsoring a fellow. Sponsored fellows work closely with sponsors during their fellowship.
People
The fellowship is led by several professional media workers who bring years of experience as facilitators and producers of all content developed during the program.
Contact
Kshitiz Adhiraj – Filmmaker, Media Producer