Summer SCENE

The course takes place online Monday to Friday over two weeks:

Summer 2025 dates to be confirmed

A commitment to 100% attendance is expected to participate in the course. A small retainer fee will be required to secure your place and attendance, to be returned at the end of the course.

The course will develop participants’ understanding of a range of taught sustainability topics with a view to critiquing and writing an impactful group policy recommendation with relevance to:

• A specific local issue or
• An issue faced in common across the participants’ Global South nations or
• A UK government policy that is currently out for consultation

There are 50 course places exclusively for graduate students and early career professionals:

• from the Global South
• who have an interest in policy development; or
• have started their career in the third sector

Applications are encouraged from a range of existing skills, interest and expertise, including those who would like to transition into sustainability policy development as a career.

We are able to offer a limited number of fully funded places thanks to generous funding. If successful, to secure your place and ensure participation a small retainer fee will be required, to be returned at the end of the course. The places are allocated equally between referrals from partner organisations and direct individual applications. In particular, we prioritise current and future youth leaders from global south countries. 

Applications will open in early 2025 for Summer SCENE 2025.