UNESCO AfriMAB GRÓ-LRT Land Restoration Fellowships 2027 for professionals from African biosphere reserves (Fully Funded to Iceland)

Application Deadline: 10 September 2026. 

Applications are actually open for the 2027 UNESCO AfriMAB GRÓ-LRT Land Restoration Fellowships. Applications are actually open for the 2027 AfriMAB GRÓ LRT Land Restoration Fellowships, providing totally funded locations for professionals from African biosphere reserves engaged in ecosystem restoration.

Selected candidates will spend six months, from 26 February 2027, on the Agricultural University of Iceland, combining coursework with a person restoration venture tailor-made to their home establishment’s wants, earlier than returning to their posts with a postgraduate diploma and college credit.

Requirements

The GRÓ LRT programme runs an annual six-month coaching in Iceland, hosted on the Agricultural University of Iceland. The first 12 weeks deal with coursework — introductory and specialised — alongside sensible coaching and area journeys. In the next 12 weeks, every Fellow develops a person venture tailor-made to their tutorial background and the wants of their home establishment. Fellows who full the coaching obtain 30 ECTS at postgraduate stage from the Agricultural University of Iceland, in addition to a GRÓ LRT diploma.

In this context, GRÓ LRT gives to practice no less than two fellows from African biosphere reserves engaged in restoration actions in its 2027 cohort.

Requirements

Applicants ought to maintain a outstanding position in ecosystem restoration exercise inside a biosphere reserve, and maintain no less than one college diploma related to GRÓ LRT’s area of labor, similar to ecology, pure sciences, environmental administration or research, and associated disciplines. 

Candidates should:

• have no less than one yr of related expertise working in a biosphere reserve;
• give you the option to talk in English (communicate, learn and write), the working language of GRÓ LRT;
• be beneath the age of 40. 

In some circumstances, GRÓ LRT has accepted candidates who don’t fulfil the training requirement however convey intensive working expertise in a related space.

Benefits

• The fellowship – which covers tuition, journey, medical health insurance, and a full dwelling stipend 
• The fellowship is totally funded, masking tuition and tutorial bills, journey and medical health insurance prices, and a stipend masking all dwelling bills in the course of the six-month keep in Iceland.

Application Procedure:

Applicants should submit:

• a letter of motivation;
• a CV;
• a letter of endorsement from the biosphere reserve the place they work;
• a letter of endorsement from the nationwide MAB Focal Point or MAB Committee of their nation, and;
• certificates of educational achievement.

All paperwork should be uploaded in PDF type as attachments by way of the web application type.

Applications are evaluated collectively by GRÓ LRT and the MAB Secretariat, and solely full purposes assembly the acknowledged necessities might be thought-about. The deadline for purposes is 10 September 2026.

For additional data, contact [email protected] or [email protected].

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the UNESCO AfriMAB GRÓ-LRT Land Restoration Fellowships