Call for Applications: YEE Youth Scientific Advisory Board 2024/2025
7-10 h/ month
Volunteering
remote
1 year mandate
Start October 2024
Join the YEE Youth Scientific Advisory Board (YSAB)!
Youth and Environment Europe (YEE) is looking for dedicated individuals to join our Youth Scientific Advisory Board (YSAB). As a member, you will play a crucial role in supporting YEE’s projects, campaigns, advocacy actions, and training programs by providing essential and up-to-date information on selected environmental and climate topics.
This position is remote, and requires 7-10 hours of work per month on average. The membership of the scientific board will run for 1 year (with possible extension).
Application deadline: 18th September 2024
Your responsibilities
- ⚬ Provide scientific insights to ensure YEE’s actions, positions, and activities are aligned with the latest research.
- ⚬Support the drafting of position papers to ensure YEE’s advocacy is backed by independent, youth-centred sources
- ⚬ Contribute with data and resources for the development of handbooks, articles, and other educational materials.
- ⚬ Help build capacity and raise awareness among young people on pressing environmental and climate issues.
What we offer
- An opportunity to influence and shape youth-led environmental initiatives.
- A platform to share your expertise and collaborate with like-minded individuals.
- The chance to contribute to meaningful projects that place youth at the centre of environmental research and advocacy.
Candidates we are looking for
- Working proficiency in English.
- Eligible aplicants shall be based in one of the Council of Europe countries.
- Eligible applicants must be younger than 35 years of age.
- Be aligned with YEE's core values and mission.
- Individuals with a strong background in environmental science or related fields.
- Passionate about youth empowerment and environmental advocacy.
Expertise
Members shall be young students or young early career professionals with a background in hard science in one or more of the following fields:
- Renewable energy sources
- Energy systems/Energy sources
- Bioeconomy
- Geoengineering
- Sustainable forestry/forest management
- Biodiversity and Conservation
- Rewilding
- Nature Based Solutions
- Agriculture/Agroecology
- Sustainable Food Systems
- Pollution
- Water Pollution
- Air Pollution
- Chemicals, plastics and microplastics
- Waste management
- Freshwater systems
- Oceanography/Marine Biology/Marine Sciences
- Water resource management
- Climate science and Earth System Modeling
- Climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability
- Health and Climate
- Renewable energy sources
- Energy systems/Energy sources
- Bioeconomy
- Geoengineering
- Sustainable forestry/forest management
- Biodiversity and Conservation
- Rewilding
- Nature Based Solutions
- Agriculture/Agroecology
- Sustainable Food Systems
- Pollution
- Water Pollution
- Air Pollution
- Chemicals, plastics and microplastics
- Waste management
- Freshwater systems
- Oceanography/Marine Biology/Marine Sciences
- Water resource management
- Climate science and Earth System Modeling
- Climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability
- Health and Climate
Our mission
YEE aims to unite environmental youth non-profit organisations in Europe in order to enhance international cooperation, increase knowledge about the climate crisis, raise awareness of environmental problems and to strengthen participation of youth in environmental decision-making.
