Application as a fellow for the transformative change assessment

The Application Period is Now Closed. 

1) Nominees are invited to complete the application form and attach their curriculum vitae below by 20 September 2021. 

2) The nominating Government or organization (Nominator) indicated by the Nominee will receive an email with a link to the nomination form and will be invited to approve and submit the nominations in the web portal by  27 September 2021. 

3) Nominators and Nominees will receive a confirmation via email once the nomination has been duly submitted. Only candidates duly nominated by a Government or organization will be considered. 

Early-career individuals applying as fellows should have strong multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary expertise, expertise in one or more disciplines of natural science, social science or the humanities, be indigenous and local knowledge experts or have expertise in indigenous and local knowledge systems. All nominees should have experience in working within interdisciplinary, international and/or global contexts.

IPBES is particularly looking for early-career individuals with a scientific background in environmental, ecological, biological, economic, technological, social, cultural, political or behavioural science, as well as arts and humanities research related to:

  • Transformative change needed for conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, long-term human wellbeing, and sustainable development;
  • Indirect drivers of biodiversity change;
  • Development or use of scenarios and pathways of transformative change;
  • The theory of transformative change and the role of transformative change in the context of different value systems and knowledge systems, worldviews and paradigms;
  • The personal and philosophical dimensions of transformations;
  • Decision-making for, or implementation of transformative change at local, regional, national, or international scales.