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ACTIVE CITIZEN FELLOWSHIP

An Active Citizen is a leader who actively takes responsibility and initiative in areas of public concern. She is an advocate for civic participation, brings community together and engage continuously with authorities to bring about change in society.

Active Citizen Fellows nurture mid school students and lead a neighborhood improvement project and increase participation in,

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Be An Active Citizen, Build Solutions

The Fellowship offers an opportunity for students from journalism, political science, management, technology and allied fields – to support initiatives in the areas of governance, participatory democracy and empowerment of marginalized communities.

Fellows work for a year, on weekends.

Facilitate Active Citizenship in Schools

Fellows work with children, teachers, principals of an appointed school close to their location. Facilitate Active Citizenship & Leaders Program.

Join the Active Citizen Community

Our Alumni work in diverse roles, some as social entrepreneurs, some as student leaders, some within the education sector and some as policy researchers; all with a shared purpose of an active, fun-loving & vibrant community.

  • Who Are You?

    Our Fellows are leaders of the active citizenship movement. Besides passion and commitment to the vision, we look for leadership potential that can develop through the journey. Our Fellows are critical thinkers and creative problem solvers. We look for diversity in our Fellowship cohort, with varied levels of experience – college students, working youth, experienced professionals, and entrepreneurs.

    Fellows generally come from challenging corporate environment or studying in colleges. They need not take a gap year to pursue this fellowship. Prior experience of volunteering or social clubs is a big plus. Our Fellows are life long learners and looking to integrate a new form of impact based learning.

  • What would you do/learn?

    You will work with the community: You’ll work in pairs and take ownership of a Commons Project in partnership with local non-profits of your choice. It could be catering to the community you currently live in, work, study or a place you care about. It could also be research work that you publish under creative commons. This project will act as a learning-cum-developmental journey for you and team of volunteers you may build on the journey.

    You will work with school students: You’ll spend at-least 30 days in a school and facilitate Active Citizenship & Leadership Program. The program is integrated as a curriculum with UoC partner schools which is delivered over the year on Saturdays. Students will lookup to you as their role model to become active citizens. You will also get an opportunity to design community projects for children.

    You will work on yourself: You will be a part of leadership program lead by industry mentors. You also get to practice the MIT U-Lab impact process, take Design Thinking practices to field and learn about basic social entrepreneurship methodologies from UoC Coaches.

  • For How Long?

    We would want you to stay connected with students and school forever. However the project lasts for one year that engages with you on weekends. 

    The ACF Fellowship engages you for 40 weekends (~ 80 days) spread over a year. 30 days (mostly Saturdays) for ACLP Program in schools + 30 days to complete your community project + 20 days to undergo a leadership program which is a mix of online sessions and meet-ups. 

    The program design allows for employees and students to continue working/studies and participate in fellowship as well. However, considering the intensity of the program, we urge applicants to be doubly sure about their commitment before applying.  

  • Inviting Partners

    University of Commons is the choice of many corporate and universities to help build real world leadership. We invite institutes and organizations to partner with us and integrate learning via solving community service (service learning). Our fellows come from top tier colleges in India and our fellows show extra ordinary problem solving abilities in corporate environment. 

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Non Profit Organizations / Governments
For organisations that have developed own curriculum, engaging volunteers or teachers for program delivery – we offer technology. We also offer program content for organizations looking for impact-curriculum and mobilize facilitators.

Foundations & CSRs 
We engage with employees to lead the program by sharing technology, content and frameworks. We offer training, certificates & processes needed for smooth execution of program.

Implementation Partners
We offer best practices, knowledge framework, technology, content and access to partner ecosystem.