Fjällräven Field Grant Program 2025

The Explorers Club is a multidisciplinary professional organisation committed to advancing field research, scientific discovery, and conservation. It brings together explorers, scientists, and researchers from across the globe who are driven to understand and protect natural environments. With a long history of fostering exploration and education, the Club supports a variety of field grants, expeditions, and research projects, emphasising scientific rigor, global diversity, and environmental stewardship. Its grant programs aim to enable early-career as well as graduate or post-graduate scientists to contribute meaningful fieldwork that informs conservation, environmental health, climate science, wildlife biology, and ecosystems. The Club’s partnership with organisations like Fjällräven—an outdoor gear company rooted in nature and sustainability—reflects shared values: preserving wild places, promoting community, and inspiring curiosity through exploration. Together, they provide funding, recognition, and community for those willing to venture into the field—to collect data, test hypotheses, and deepen our understanding of how wildlife, nature, and human societies are interlinked.

The Fjällräven Field Grant supports early-career scientists, graduate or post-graduate students (or equivalent) to conduct fieldwork in the natural sciences. It emphasises scientific research that better understands the environment, changing climate, wildlife, and the relationship between ecosystems and human civilisation. Projects can be anywhere in the world, as long as they involve field exploration or observation, data collection, and a clear methodology. The grant encourages work that contributes original insights into conservation or environmental change. While the grant size isn’t explicitly disclosed everywhere, some sources list ~USD 5,000 for certain awardees. The application requires a concise project description, clear methods, outcomes, environmental or cultural impact, and supplementary materials (maps, photos, videos) are welcomed. Applicants are asked to avoid overly technical language in project titles, choose a predominant project category even if work is multidisciplinary, and provide letters of support. Special attention is given to ethical concerns and necessary permits for fieldwork. The grant combines support and encouragement for ambitious field science with conservation and environmental education.