World Congress of Science & Factual Producers Global Career Accelerator 2025 – YOA

Deadline: September 12, 2025

Applications are open for the World Congress of Science & Factual Producers Global Career Accelerator 2025. The Global Career Accelerator is a program for up-and-coming factual filmmakers, digital producers, or anybody able to take their profession to the subsequent stage and produce their science, historical past, or pure historical past work to audiences world wide. The newly renamed programme builds on the success of the Emerging Producer Program and is open to all fields of experience together with factual, digital, social media, gaming, and multimedia.

The purpose of this system is to welcome and help various rising expertise and encourage a brand new era of Congress members. Producers and content material creators working in all science, historical past, wildlife and non-fiction media are inspired to apply together with these working in digital media, social media and gaming.

The 2025 Global Career Accelerator recipients will probably be provided a variety of help together with accreditation and networking alternatives for Congress ’25, introduced by the World Congress of Science and Factual Producers (WCSFP). The program additionally consists of legacy reductions on accreditation for the 2026 and 2027 WCSFP, additional permitting new members of the neighborhood to return yearly.

Benefits

Qualified candidates will probably be chosen to obtain one of the next tiers of help for Congress ’25.

Full Bursary (Tier 1)

• Full registration for Congress ’25
• Travel and 4 nights lodging
• Mentorship from a Congress veteran
• Opportunities for one-on-one conferences with determination makers
• Welcome session with main producers to assist facilitate the simplest WCSFP expertise
• Tailored help and recommendation to efficiently navigate WCSFP
• Discounted accreditation to attend Congress 2026 and 2027

Priority for the Full Bursary will probably be given to producers from markets which are underrepresented at WCSFP.

Partial Bursary (Tier 2)

• Full registration for Congress ’25
• Mentorship from a Congress veteran
• Welcome session with main producers to assist facilitate the simplest WCSFP expertise
• Tailored help and recommendation to efficiently navigate WCSFP
• Discounted accreditation to attend Congress 2026 and 2027

Eligibility

• Applicants have to be first time WCSFP attendees

For Tier 1 bursaries, two priorities have been recognized

• Applicants from exterior the WCSFP’s conventional attendance base (i.e. exterior of Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, UK, USA) and/or Applicants who haven’t beforehand attended a serious worldwide market occasion
• The Global Career Accelerator Program welcomes underrepresented voices and encourages purposes from throughout all cultural and geographic backgrounds
• Applicants should show expertise working within the science, historical past, wildlife or factual genres in a single of the next roles: govt producer, producer, affiliate producer, assistant producer, or digital, gaming or social media content material creator
• Applicants ought to be capable to show that their careers are at a stage to profit from attendance at a big worldwide occasion

Application

Applicants will probably be required to supply the next info of their application:

• A brief bio
• A present CV
• A video or audio work pattern (have to be in English or subtitled in English)
• A letter of help from an trade skilled or somebody in a senior media-associated place who can assess the applicant’s {qualifications} to apply for this bursary
• An application assertion which gives extra info on the applicant equivalent to: The applicant’s involvement in science, historical past or non-fiction media; the applicant’s most up-to-date or present tasks; and the applicant’s targets for attending Congress

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For extra info, go to Global Career Accelerator.