About Organisation
Unearthodox is a collaborative international ecosystem dedicated to radical connection-making and innovation facilitation, bringing together open-minded individuals committed to driving societal change that enables nature and people to thrive together. The organization positions itself as home to visionaries who challenge conventional approaches to environmental and social challenges.
The organization’s approach emphasizes inclusivity, creating equitable and diverse spaces while facilitating both systems thinking and futures thinking. Unearthodox deliberately draws upon a rich variety of backgrounds and experiences, integrating perspectives from innovation, strategy, ecology, sustainability, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, communication, journalism, policy, advocacy, facilitation, business, arts, and the social and environmental sciences into its work.
Unearthodox recognizes that transformative innovations addressing nature-society challenges often fall outside traditional support systems, remaining invisible or under-resourced precisely when they are most needed. The organization responds by creating alternative support structures that value slow, relational, and deeply contextual work over conventional metrics of speed, measurability, and scale.
Through its programs, Unearthodox supports innovators whose work flows across conventional boundaries and doesn’t fit into neat categorical boxes. The organization practices deep allyship, connecting participants with global networks of systems innovators, mentors, and network weavers. By fostering radical thinking, risk-taking, and experimentation at the edges of change, Unearthodox aims to enable systemic transformation that redefines what is possible in conservation and regenerative systems.
About the Grant
Edges of Possibility represents the second cohort of Unearthodox’s Exploration Co-Lab, offering a twelve-month journey supporting visionaries working on nature-society challenges while reimagining the systems that created them. This program provides a new support model encouraging radical thinking and risk-taking for innovators whose work transcends conventional boundaries.
The program acknowledges that societal challenges are systemic rather than isolated, requiring slow, relational, and deeply contextual approaches rather than segmented, rapid solutions. It supports experimentation at the edges of change, helping participants define and redefine possibilities through new patterns of attention and holding questions differently.
Beginning January 2026, selected participants receive CHF 10,000 in direct grant funding to move ideas into action, plus access to a shared pool of up to CHF 60,000 in tailored non-financial support. This comprehensive support includes peer learning and shared exploration for radical transformation, individualized coaching and expert guidance, strategic positioning assistance, frameworks for defining and measuring success, and systems and futures thinking methodologies.
Additional benefits encompass visibility through Unearthodox’s communication channels for expanded reach and impact, and connection to a global network of systems innovators, mentors, and network weavers. The program creates an online environment dedicated to systemic transformation, connection, and wellbeing, practicing deep allyship while supporting bold leaders, edge-walkers, and systems thinkers capable of navigating complexity and challenging systemic barriers to conservation.
Who can Apply?
This program seeks curious, courageous, and deeply relational individuals who value participation, trust, and empathy while thinking critically and creatively about nature-society challenges and co-creating pathways for systemic change. Ideal candidates are innovators with early-stage ideas already in motion at the intersection of environmental and societal change, likely navigating uncertainty or actively shaping their direction.
Applicants should be seeking spaces for radical experimentation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and decolonized innovation ecosystems where care rather than profit serves as the primary currency. Candidates in active phases of ideation, research, or experimentation who want to explore new ways of measuring change and success will benefit most from the customized support offered.
The program welcomes applicants whose journeys have been quiet, messy, internal, or nonlinear, recognizing that transformative work often develops outside conventional pathways. Unearthodox especially encourages applications from underrepresented voices from the global majority and historically excluded communities, embracing diversity across age, gender identity, location, and background.
All program activities are conducted in English, requiring participants to have sufficient English language proficiency for meaningful engagement. Applicants must share commitment to reimagining systems for a just, vibrant, and regenerative future. The program targets those challenging systemic barriers to conservation and exploring ways to make existing systems more just and regenerative through their innovative work at the edges of conventional thinking and practice.
How to Apply?
The application period opens October 28 and closes November 25, 2025. Interested innovators should submit applications through Unearthodox’s official application portal during this window. Detailed application requirements, submission guidelines, and additional information about the program are available through the organization’s website. Prospective applicants are encouraged to review all program details and prepare their submissions carefully before the deadline.
Application Deadline
Applications are accepted from October 28 through November 25, 2025. All submissions must be completed through the official application portal by the November 25th deadline to be considered for the 2026 cohort.
Last Date To Apply
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