Apply Now: The Pleasure Fellow Scheme 2025

Are you keen about selling sex-positive, inclusive, and empowering approaches to sexual and reproductive well being? The Pleasure Project is inviting functions for its 2025 Pleasure Fellow Scheme. This distinctive alternative is designed for daring and inventive people who’re able to problem typical norms and elevate the dialog round pleasure in SRHR areas.

About the Pleasure Project

The Pleasure Project is a number one world initiative beneath TASH, a not-for-profit Community of Interest Company. Since launching its pleasure-based method on the International AIDS Conference in 2004, it has turn into a trailblazer in integrating pleasure, want, and wellbeing into the material of sexual well being schooling, service provision, and analysis.

From coaching over 100 organizations to creating the globally acknowledged Pleasure Principles, the initiative champions the concept that pleasure, when embraced ethically and equitably, results in safer, extra knowledgeable sexual decisions. It redefines intercourse schooling by specializing in empowerment, consent, security, and pleasure.

About the Pleasure Fellow Scheme

The Pleasure Fellow Scheme seeks to domesticate a cohort of 15 dedicated professionals who will turn into ‘pleasure experts’ inside their spheres of affect. These fellows will champion the inclusion of delight in SRHR analysis, schooling, service provision, and coverage advocacy.

The program contains:

• Seven interactive Zoom classes between November 2025 and April 2026 (approx. 2 hours per session)

• Pre-session readings and particular person duties

• Recordings for these unable to attend all classes

• End-of-program funding alternative of as much as USD 1,500 to help a fellow-led venture

Fellows should decide to attending a minimal of 4 classes and collaborating in community-building and reflective actions.

Key Themes

The program addresses a number of intersecting themes together with:

• Pleasure as a optimistic and transformative worth

• Human rights and sexual security

• Cultural range in sexual expression

• Community-based, evidence-driven approaches to sexual schooling

• Ethical erotic media and intercourse work

• Integrity, inclusivity, empathy, and empowerment in SRHR

Post-Fellowship Engagement

Graduates of the Pleasure Fellow Scheme are anticipated to:

• Advocate for pleasure-based approaches at occasions, of their establishments, {and professional} networks

• Write a reflective piece on their fellowship expertise

• Submit a follow-up report (min. 500 phrases) on their funded venture if awarded

• Use branded instructional supplies aligned with The Pleasure Project’s values

• Promote the mission of “creating a billion more pleasurable, safe experiences”

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants should:

• Be aged 25–35

• Have citizenship or present residence in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Germany, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Serbia, or Ukraine

• Possess skilled expertise in:

  • Civic and historical past schooling

  • Memory work or tradition of remembrance

  • Artistic or instructional observe associated to nature, historical past, or sexual well being

• Be fluent in English

• Be prepared to current their very own tasks or concepts throughout this system

Values of the Fellowship

Fellows are anticipated to embody The Pleasure Project’s core values, which embrace:

• Respect for range and autonomy

• Evidence-based advocacy

• Collaborative and moral engagement

• Inclusion, care, and equality in observe

Application Process

Interested people should:

• Complete an internet application kind

• Include a private motivation assertion

• Submit a short biography

• Confirm their potential to satisfy the time dedication

Selected candidates will signal a contract agreeing to the scheme’s phrases and circumstances. Failure to satisfy expectations might lead to elimination from this system and forfeiture of any funding.

Important Dates

• Application Deadline: 1 July 2025

• Notification of Selection: By 10 July 2025

• Program Period: November 2025 – April 2026

Cost

There is no value to take part. All coaching, lodging (if relevant), and project-related bills are coated.

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