Global Environments Summer Academy (GESA) Fellowship
GESA is a five-month immersive programme for changemakers, which addresses the most critical social and environmental issues facing humanity today. Since 2011, almost 200 people from 58 countries have taken part in GESA and have joined our Network.
The Academy provides mentoring, knowledge-sharing, skills and tools for those on the frontlines of environmental and social justice.
Since 2018, GESA has been hosted by the University of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute. It was previously hosted in partnership with the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich (2011-12) and the University of Bern’s Centre for Development and Environment (2013-15).

Global Environments Summer Academy 2024
The guiding themes for the 8th Summer Academy were renewal, resilience and hope, with participants from Panama, Kenya, Tanzania, Brazil, Cameroon, Nepal, Indonesia, India, Madagascar, Uganda, Nigeria, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and China.
Global Environments Summer Academy 2022
The seventh Global Environments Summer Academy (GESA 2022) encompassed a four month online fellowship and an in-person Academy hosted by the University of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute.
Global Environments Summer Academy 2018
Held in collaboration with University of Oxford's Environmental Change Institute and Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science.
Global Environments Summer Academy 2015
Global Environments Summer Academy 2015 concluded on 14 August 2015, successfully completing our fifth summer academy.
Global Environments Summer Academy 2014
GESA 2014 was held from 26 July to 15 August 2014 in collaboration with the Centre for Development and Environment of the University of Bern.