GLF/YIL Restoration Stewards Program 2026 (€5,000 grant) – YOA

Deadline: July 13, 2025

Are you a teenager dreaming of a world the place folks and landscapes thrive? Apply for the Restoration Stewards Program 2026. The Restoration Stewards program is a youth program rooted in care, panorama management, range, intersectionality and intergenerational fairness.

Launched in 2020 by the Global Landscapes Forum and the Youth in Landscapes Initiative, it goals to assist the efforts of youth-led groups in holistically restoring their landscapes and seascapes whereas nurturing biocultural range. The program has 4 fundamental pillars: funding, capability improvement, mentorship and spotlighting at international occasions. Restoration Stewards and their groups are supported for one yr to additional develop their imaginative and prescient, deepen their impression and grow to be ambassadors for restoration at international and native ranges.

Benefits

The chosen Restoration Stewards will obtain mentorship from consultants, in addition to alternatives for skilled and venture improvement. They may also obtain a grant of EUR 5,000 to additional develop their restoration venture whereas assembly the next targets:

• Set venture-particular targets to be reached by the tip of the yr, with steering from the mentors and GLF consultants; 
• Seek and perform coaching actions to deepen the understanding of the panorama method and different related matters; 
• Run a minimal of 1 occasion to have interaction native communities; 
• Coordinate with the GLF group to advertise their venture through social media 
• Produce articles and different content material for GLF platforms to ship progress updates and showcase inspiring tales from their native panorama; 
• Meet with the GLF group and the mentors frequently to debate the venture’s progress.

Eligibility

The program will take into account functions from anybody between the ages of 18 and 35 who’s main or engaged on a youth-led restoration venture in any of the next ecosystems: forest, mountains, oceans, wetlands, peatlands, drylands or rangelands. Applicants should perceive and be prepared to stick to and mannequin the GLF imaginative and prescient, pillars and values.

Priority might be given to tasks that:

• Are led by a teenager or a bunch of younger folks (aged 18 to 35) who’re both native, Indigenous, or nationals of African, Asian, Latin American or Caribbean nations and are operating tasks in these areas; 
• Have been operating for no less than six months.

Note that: 

• You would not have to create a brand new venture from scratch to be eligible; candidates are invited to construct on restoration packages or tasks which can be already operating. 
• It could be helpful if at the very least one particular person in your group is proficient in English, as most of the actions and alternatives offered via this system are at present in English. 

The GLF and YIL would particularly wish to encourage younger ladies, Indigenous youth, rural youth and different underrepresented teams and identities to apply for this program.

Application

When making use of, you can be requested the next questions.

About you: 

• What expertise do you may have associated to restoration? (200 phrases).
• Prepare a one-minute video of your self telling us why you want to grow to be a Restoration Steward. Share the video as a publish in your social media or use an unlisted YouTube or Google Drive hyperlink. Please be certain so as to add the hyperlink to your video within the application.

About your venture: 

• Make positive you may have a reputation to your venture.
• Describe the panorama you’re restoring together with its present state, the primary drivers of degradation and why you’re engaged on it. (200 phrases)
• Describe your venture, clearly specifying your targets and associated actions. Please additionally clarify how your venture goals to revive the panorama via a panorama method and the way it goals to deliver optimistic change for native folks. (400 phrases)
• Explain the place you see your venture in a yr after finishing this system. (200 phrases)
• Prepare a one-web page PDF or Word doc with a transparent breakdown of how you propose to make use of the EUR 5,000 seed funding.
• Attach a photograph of your venture space.

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For extra data, go to Restoration Stewards Program.