Ocean Leaders Fellowship 2025: Empowering the Next Generation of Ocean Champions(Fully-funded and open to all nationalities)

The Challenge:

The ocean is our lifeline. And the subsequent era of ocean leaders is inheriting the accountability to defend it. Yet systemic limitations—resembling restricted alternatives and exclusion from crucial decision-making areas—typically stop younger leaders from contributing their experience and advancing their careers.

The Solution:

The Ocean Leaders Fellowship (OLF), developed by Sustainable Ocean Alliance in partnership with Dona Bertarelli Philanthropy, is an annual program designed to help and empower distinctive younger professionals of their efforts to defend and restore the well being of our ocean.

In this program, 40 chosen Fellows can be given the alternative to develop crucial abilities as leaders in the ocean sector. The program curriculum contains talent growth workshops, professional mentorship, collaboration alternatives with friends, and attendance at the 2025 Our Ocean Youth Leadership Summit and UN Ocean Conference.

This Fellowship goes past amplifying youth voices. It prepares Fellows to lead with confidence and the instruments needed to champion significant, lasting change for the ocean and local weather.