Yves Rocher Foundation Terre de Femmes Award 2026 (€10,000 grant) – YOA

Deadline: October 31, 2025

Applications are open for the Yves Rocher Foundation Terre de Femmes Award 2026. To rejoice the twenty fifth anniversary of the Terre de Femmes programme and the thirty fifth anniversary of the Yves Rocher Foundation, they’re launching for the very first time a novel international Call for Projects for the 2026 version. This 12 months, the France and International editions are merging round one highly effective and unifying theme: The Tree, Guardian of Life!

Do you will have a mission that takes concrete motion for bushes, whether or not in France or overseas? Then this name for purposes is for you!

Theme: The Tree, Guardian of Life!

Present on each continent, bushes maintain life on Earth. They shelter invaluable biodiversity and play a vital position in regulating the local weather and water cycles. From neighborhood orchards to the Amazon cover, bushes are key actors within the residing world.

By stabilising and regenerating soils, filtering water, moderating temperatures, and absorbing CO₂, bushes present numerous very important ecosystem companies. They are additionally deeply rooted in our cultures, tales, and methods of life. Yet international deforestation continues at an alarming price, endangering not solely forest ecosystems but additionally the communities and residing beings that rely on them.

In cities, within the countryside, in major forests or agricultural areas, rethinking our relationship with bushes has turn out to be an ecological, social, and cultural urgency.

Benefits

• 5 laureates chosen worldwide
• €10,000 grant per mission
• The OPPORTUNITY to affix a neighborhood of dedicated girls

Eligibility

• Open to any grownup lady or group of ladies dedicated to defending nature and dealing with bushes.
• Leading a concrete mission by a non-revenue construction (affiliation, NGO, basis, and so forth.) with at the very least one 12 months of existence.
• Residing in any nation, of any nationality.

Eligible Projects

• Hands-on instructional initiatives involving youngsters, faculties, and villages in tree-associated actions.
• Implementation of revolutionary forest-based mostly meals methods (forest gardens, neighborhood orchards, and so forth.).
• Initiatives supporting the rights of forest peoples and their ecological, conventional, and religious data.
• Actions defending the rights of bushes.
• Preservation of rituals and tales linked to bushes in native cultures.
• Promotion of medicinal bushes.
• Urban greening initiatives or initiatives tackling city warmth islands.
• Protection or regeneration of major forests, historic woodlands, endangered forests, or hedgerow bushes.
• Conservation of outstanding bushes or forest biodiversity hotspots.
• Creation of native nurseries for indigenous or endangered tree species.
• Community reforestation or agroforestry programmes.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Yves Rocher Foundation Terre de Femmes Award.