L’essentiel de l’offre
- Poste : Participant au Co-Lab 2027
- Employeur : Unearthodox
- Lieu : International (Programme en ligne / hybride)
- Contrat : Programme d’incubation (10 mois)
- Date limite : 16 novembre 2026
- Niveau requis : Innovateurs, chercheurs, porteurs de projets
Contexte
The Unearthodox Edges of Possibility Exploration Co-Lab 2027 is inviting applications from innovators, changemakers, and initiatives working to transform humanity’s relationship with nature. The 10-month programme supports ambitious ideas that challenge the underlying systems, worldviews, and institutional structures contributing to today’s environmental and societal challenges.
Applications are open from 15 September to 16 November 2026. The opportunity is suited to people and initiatives seeking transformative change beyond conventional, incremental solutions to nature-related problems.
About the Edges of Possibility Exploration Co-Lab
The Exploration Co-Lab is an alternative incubator created by Unearthodox for innovators whose work does not fit neatly into traditional categories. It aims to help develop ideas that could reshape how societies understand and interact with the natural world.
Rather than focusing only on immediate environmental problems, the programme encourages participants to investigate the deeper causes of the challenges facing people and the planet. These include dominant worldviews, institutional practices, and systems that prioritise commodification, human-centred thinking, or colonial structures.
Over 10 months, selected participants can benefit from dedicated thinking space, cohort-based learning, and customised support to help strengthen and advance their ideas.
Missions et responsabilités
- Investigate the deeper causes of the challenges facing people and the planet, including dominant worldviews, institutional practices, and systems.
- Develop new ways of thinking that support the wellbeing of people and all life on Earth (Transformative worldviews).
- Challenge institutional and economic structures that contribute to environmental degradation and unequal relationships with nature (Systems change).
- Explore new ways to build meaningful relationships with the more-than-human world (Nature-centred innovation).
- Advance ideas that go beyond incremental improvements and address the deeper drivers of environmental and societal problems (Radical and imaginative solutions).
- Question existing assumptions and create possibilities for more fundamental change through the initiative’s work.
Profil recherché
- Innovators and initiatives working on nature-society challenges with the ambition to transform the systems that underpin them.
- Changemakers, researchers, social innovators, environmental practitioners, and teams developing unconventional approaches to ecological and societal transformation.
- Candidates capable of demonstrating how their work questions existing assumptions and creates possibilities for more fundamental change.
- Individuals or teams with initiatives that do not fit conventional categories, focusing on originality and transformative potential.
Conditions et avantages
The Exploration Co-Lab offers a 10-month development experience designed to help participants explore, refine, and strengthen ambitious ideas.
- Dedicated time and space for thinking and exploration.
- Cohort-based learning with other innovators.
- Customised support tailored to the needs of radical or unconventional initiatives.
- An opportunity to develop approaches that challenge established systems and reimagine humanity’s relationship with nature.
The announcement does not specify a monetary grant, stipend, salary, travel allowance, or other financial benefits. Applicants should consult the official application page for further details about programme costs, funding, participation arrangements, and any additional support.
Dossier de candidature
- Review the open call to understand the programme’s focus on root-cause challenges and transformative systems change.
- Assess the initiative by explaining how the proposed work addresses the underlying causes of nature-society challenges rather than only their immediate effects.
- Clarify the proposed change by describing the assumptions, institutional structures, or relationships with nature that the initiative seeks to question or transform.
- Prepare the application by following the instructions on the official application platform and providing all requested information.
- Communicate clearly the problem the initiative addresses, why existing approaches are insufficient, and how the work could contribute to deeper transformation.
- Explain the initiative’s underlying vision, its potential to challenge conventional thinking, and the kind of support needed to advance it.
- Demonstrate why the Exploration Co-Lab’s emphasis on experimentation, systems change, and imaginative thinking is relevant to the work.
Comment postuler
Applications must be submitted through the official online application platform.
Procédure : Follow the instructions on the official application platform, complete the preparation steps, and submit before the deadline.
Date limite : 16 November 2026 (Application period runs from 15 September to 16 November 2026).
Référence : Unearthodox Edges of Possibility Exploration Co-Lab 2027
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