Deadline: 4 October 2024
The Explorers Club and Swedish-based outdoor gear and clothing company, Fjällräven, have partnered to create a grant program to promote excellence in field exploration through scientific research.
This grant award supports exploration and research to better understand the environment, a changing climate, and the interconnectivity of wildlife and civilizations around the planet.
Guidelines
- Project Title: Please keep your project title concise and try to avoid too much technical language. It’s important that the objective of your project be clear to reviewers from a variety of backgrounds.
- Project Categorization: They understand that your project may be multidisciplinary in nature. That is fine. When describing your category, please just choose the predominate category. You will be given an opportunity to expound later in the application.
- Project Description: This summary of your project should briefly – and clearly – provide background and state your project goals, methodologies, and intended outcomes, as well as the potential impact the project may have culturally, environmentally, or both. Please avoid use of scientific jargon and abbreviations.
- Supplementary Materials: If you have images, video, maps, etc. that you would like to include, you may do so separately in the “Upload Additional Materials” area.
- Letters of Support: Please be sure to upload two letters expressing support for you and your project. In order to ensure your application is presented to the review committee as a complete file, they highly encourage you to submit your letters through the online system. However, if confidentiality is a concern. Please do not mail your letters of support to The Explorers Club Headquarters.
- Ethical Concerns: They want to be sure that all applicants have considered potential ethical concerns that could arise during–or as a result of–their expedition or project. This point will be given close consideration in the grant review process, thus applicants will be best served to state any anticipated concerns up front.
- Permits: The Explorers Club expects that all grantees will carry out their fieldwork or expedition after having secured any required permits. While you may not actually receive your permits until you are in country–or close to the project location–please do briefly explain in your application the status of any required permits, including when you expect to receive them. If you have secured the permit, please attach a copy. If you expect to receive your permit once in the field, please email a copy to The Explorers Club grants team as soon as you are able.
- China Restriction: Please note that The Explorers Club will not be able to consider research proposals for work being conducted in China or by Chinese citizens. The Explorers Club is considered a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) and they do not comply with the Chinese regulations regarding grant awards by NGOs at this time.
For more information, visit The Explorers Club.
