c-ECO Fellowship Program — Call for Applications
Belém Living Lab Sectoral Tracks | United States — Brazil | Fully Online
Official Notice
The Johann Christian Hasse Foundation, in collaboration with Instituto Silvio Meira, hereby opens the call for applications for the c-ECO Fellowship Program, a selective applied fellowship designed for direct engagement with real cases under the c-ECO decisional governance architecture.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
This call for applications is intended to select 2 (two) candidates for the c-ECO Fellowship Program, structured as a controlled applied entry point into the c-ECO framework through real cases, sectoral analysis, supervised interpretation, and guided contractual thinking.
§1. The Program does not constitute a general academic course, open lecture cycle, or unrestricted training environment.
§2. The Program is structured as an applied fellowship model with limited admission and individual evaluation of candidates and submitted materials.
Applications are open to professionals, researchers, jurists, economists, engineers, policy specialists, sustainability practitioners, infrastructure analysts, and other qualified candidates capable of operating within high-complexity systemic environments.
§1. Preference shall be given to candidates with prior experience related to contracts, infrastructure, regulation, finance, environmental systems, mineral extraction, water systems, energy systems, or adjacent institutional fields.
§2. Candidates shall demonstrate ability to engage with applied—not merely abstract—problem environments.
The c-ECO Fellowship Program shall be delivered fully online and shall include sectoral allocation, guided case engagement, independent analytical work, and one-to-one advisory sessions.
§1. The estimated workload is forty (40) hours.
§2. Each selected Fellow shall participate in one individual advisory session of up to fifty (50) minutes, subject to prior scheduling and availability.
§3. The fellowship shall begin in July, following final selection.
Belém Living Lab Track
Water Systems & Hydraulic Infrastructure
Focused on freshwater scarcity, hydrological thresholds, groundwater stress, hydraulic infrastructure, and pre-threshold governance of aquifer and water-system instability.
Belém Living Lab Track
Energy Systems
Focused on energy-water interdependence, infrastructure resilience, restoration liquidity, and systemic instability across hydropower, thermal, and renewable systems.
Belém Living Lab Track
Agriculture & Agroindustrial Systems
Focused on soil degradation, nutrient cycles, food security, agroindustrial dependency chains, and systemic loss of reversibility in productive landscapes.
Belém Living Lab Track
Mining & Critical Minerals Extraction
Focused on extraction systems, tailings risk, geotechnical instability, aquifer contamination, restoration guarantees, and pre-threshold legal conditioning in mining environments.
Belém Living Lab Track
Financial Systems & Credit Institutions
Focused on the transmission of environmental systemic risk into portfolios, guarantees, credit structures, and reversibility-linked financial conditioning.
Belém Living Lab Track
Artificial Intelligence & Data Infrastructure
Focused on energy-water burdens, data center externalities, algorithmic infrastructure, and emerging systemic pressures associated with computational expansion.
Belém Living Lab Track
Coastal Infrastructure & Wetlands
Focused on salinization, sea level rise, wetland degradation, coastal infrastructure reconfiguration, and remote-sensing-based pre-threshold monitoring.
§1. Each candidate shall apply to one primary sectoral track.
§2. Submission of a real or proposed concrete case is strongly recommended and may be decisive for selection.
Selected participants who successfully complete the Program shall receive the official designation:
c-ECO Fellow — [Sectoral Track]
§1. Certification shall reflect successful completion of the c-ECO Applied Fellowship Program.
§2. The Program is fully online. Accordingly, certificates shall indicate United States — Brazil and shall not reference a local in-person venue.
§3. Upon completion, Fellows shall be formally recognized within the c-ECO network.
§4. Fellows shall be eligible to submit contracts and projects for c-ECO licensing and validation, subject to applicable technical and institutional requirements.
§5. Fellows shall be authorized to engage with the framework under controlled application conditions, as defined by the c-ECO governance protocols.
The following dates apply to the present call:
I — Application period: from 1 May through 31 May;
II — Final selection date: 30 June;
III — Program commencement: July.
Administrative Note
The organization reserves the right to communicate results individually and to publish institutional notice of the selected Fellows after conclusion of the evaluation process.
Applications shall be evaluated on the basis of professional trajectory, coherence of sectoral interest, analytical capacity, relevance of the submitted case or proposed case environment, and overall alignment with the c-ECO applied architecture.
§1. The Program is selective and limited to 2 (two) positions.
§2. Submission of materials does not create any right to admission.
§3. The organization may decline to fill all available positions if applications do not meet the required level.
The c-ECO framework, its concepts, architectures, sectoral structures, and associated methodological elements remain under the control of the Johann Christian Hasse Foundation.
§1. Candidate-submitted materials shall be used exclusively for evaluation, selection, and program administration purposes.
§2. Submission of a concrete case, CV, or supporting file does not transfer ownership of candidate materials to the organization.
§3. Any future licensing, validation, or submission pathway associated with the c-ECO system shall be governed by separate terms.
Submission of an application implies acceptance of the terms of this call for applications.
§1. The organization may request supplementary documents or clarifications where necessary.
§2. Any omission or interpretive issue shall be resolved by the organizing institutions.
§3. Applications and all submission materials, including case studies and supporting documentation, may be submitted in Portuguese or English, with equal procedural validity.
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