Projects Teams
Moving from awareness to action requires a framework – and support. Our Project Teams are designed to do just that.
Project Teams provide a space for Fellows - Junior and Senior - to work together online or on-site to design, coordinate and implement actions to address the issues they care about on a local or global scale. Mentors from our community and Melton Foundation staff provide structures and guidelines, and they help Project Team members to coordinate with each other across the global network, while promoting their actions beyond the Melton Foundation.
On this page, you can learn more about the Projects our Fellows are working on.
And to find out how Project Teams work and how you can engage, click here.
Grant Committee
Project Team
The Grant Committee is the designated body to oversee and manage the assessment of all Action Grants issued by the Melton Foundation.
more»Global Selection Team
The Global Selection Team (GST) oversees the New Fellow recruitment process and helps select best-suited candidates for the Melton Foundation Fellowship.
more»Sustainable Communities
Formed at the #GhanaGCC2017, the team is working to improve waste management in local communities in Chile, China, Ghana and the USA.
more»App Solutions
Formed at the #GhanaGCC2017, the team's identified core strength unites in mobile technology. Together, they are working on a digital solution to helps individuals take care of their mental health.
more»Mental Health
Project Team
Formed at the #GhanaGCC2017, the team is working to make communities more aware of the importance of Mental Health and exploring ways how to support each other with the challenges to those suffering from mental illnesses.
more»Storytelling
Formed at the #GhanaGCC2017, the team is working to connect stories from different parts of the globe in a meaningful way.
more»Post-Colonialism
Project Team
Formed at the #GhanaGCC2017, the team is raising awareness of how people experience power dynamics that play out between the colonized and the colonizers in todays world?
more»Narratives
Project Team
Project Narratives is based on the conviction that most people would not want to kill or hurt other human beings and only do so through de-humanizing their enemies. It provide a space for understanding and empathy through the medium of short documentaries that capture the personal experiences of people on both sides of a conflict.
Click here to find out more about Project Narrative
more»Fellowship Model Design Team
Project Team
By co-developing a fellowship model, the Design Team helps strengthen the Melton Foundation’s core assets: our mission, the Global Citizenship Program for Junior Fellows, and our global network while also staying true to the needs of our community and our core values.
more»Policy & Governance Design Team
Project Team
By co-developing policies and governance structures, the Design Team helps strengthen the Melton Foundation’s core assets: our mission, the Global Citizenship Program for Junior Fellows, and our global network while also staying true to the needs of our community and our core values.
more»Mental Health (2016/17)
Mental Health aims to raise awareness about widely known mental health issues and to reduce stigma and misinformation related to it.
more»Changemakers
Changemakers inspires and empowers people in order to close the gap between awareness and action.
more»Gender Roles
Project Team
The project team wants to discuss and learn about gender roles, and how to react to them.
more»It's up to you
It’s up to you focuses on raising awareness about issues related to the topic of unhealthy lifestyles and mental illness.
more»Sustainability for Vulnerable Communities
Sustainability for Vulnerable Communities aims to help vulnerable and challenged communities in one (or more) of the Melton Countries.
more»Education in Schools
Education in School is about making sure that students, regardless of age, have access to the knowledge needed to start their journey as a global citizen.
more»Unchaining Gender
Project Team
Unchaining Gender uses storytelling to give a voice to the LGBTQI community.
more»Butterfly Effect
Butterfly Effect discusses current political and social topics, starting with the presidential election in the US.
more»Female Infanticide
Project Team
The Project Teams aims to create a concept of how to improve the situation of female infanticide with a specific local community in India that experiences the issue.
more»Gender Equality
Project Team
The Project Team wants to promote gender equality by addressing the issues of health,sexual education, gender norms sensitization and harassment.
more»Awareness 4 Gender (In)Equality
Project Team
The Project Teams aims to delve into real life stories on gender discrimination, inequalities and prejudices around the world with a focus on women through multimedia examples: blog website, videos and audios .
more»Global Dialogue
The Project Teams aims to build awareness around issues affecting people by engaging in discussion about relevant subjects and learning from our different opinions and cultural backgrounds.
more»Rainwater Harvest
The Project Team addresses the lack of water during the summer at Mañiuco school, Chile.
more»ZU Global Citizenship Education
Melton Fellows from Zhejiang University in China are offering global citizenship education courses to various local schools around Hangzhou, China. The project aims to educate elementary school children how to become a modern citizen in a globalized world. This includes awareness for global citizenship, but also practical skills and tools to deal with global challenges.
more»Mañiuco Global Citizenship Education
Mañiuco is a rural primary school outside Temuco. The students - about 80 underprivileged children between 4 to 15 years - all belong to the Mapuche ethnic group. Melton Fellows from UFRO campus decided to help bring a change in this school and the community. What started off as a half-day visit in July 2011 has become an ongoing project.
more»MF Goes Carbon Neutral
Project Team
This project team, wants to move the discussion on Climate Change and Sustainability to a next level.
How? We aspire to promote good practices by being the good examples ourselves, first. And what’s a better place to start than in your own community ...
more»Civic Courage
Project Team
The courage to stand up for one's own conviction, even if there might result negative consequences for oneself: This is one definition of civic courage, a concept that has been explored in depth by the “Civic Courage” Project Team. Around 15 Fellows from each of the Melton Foundation partner campuses have dedicated much effort and creativity to understand what civic courage means in our cultures and learn about the numerous challenges when it comes to acting courageously.
more»StoryTelling (2015/16)
Project Team
StoryTelling is a project, initiated by Melton Fellows to share short stories about people and situations. The project team invites to see the world through the eyes of our neighbours, raising a sense of emphathy, connection and mutual understanding.
more»Punch! Art Empowered
PUNCH! Art Empowered aims to present cultural diplomacy and global citizenship as a way to encourage artists from all fields to use art for mutual understanding. This is accomplished through workshops and exhibitions that involve local artistes, art institutions and partners who share the idea of using the power of art to improve cultural relations worldwide.
more»Mutual Building
Project Team
The Melton Foundation, along with two NGOs from Jena, Germany called Iberoamerica and Eine-Welt-Haus, and The Institute of Intercultural Studies at UFRO, Temuco have been working to make an exciting encounter possible: bringing together students from the Galileo School from Winzerla (Jena, Germany), children from the Handicraft Women’s group in Rapa Nui (Easter Islands), and children from Maquehue School (Araucania, Chile).
more»Baiji School 2013
Social Service Projects have been an essential part of the Melton Foundation activities for several years now, with a focus on education and raising awareness. The education and awareness takes place on both ends – with Fellows learning as much from the communities as the community members learn from the Fellows.
One Melton Foundation project furthering the goal of education is the ongoing one in Baiji County in China, being carried out by Melton Fellows from ZU campus.
more»ClimatePUSH
Project Team
ClimatePUSH is trans-sectoral, trans-organizational, trans-cultural, trans-societal – a movement that involves everyone from everywhere to take simple actions in their lives that make a difference to climate change and to make it an issue by talking about it to others.
more»Global Voices 2014
Project Team
How do you solve a problem if you've never heard about it? And on the flip side, how do you mobilize support if you can't get your message out? It's precisely for these reasons, that Melton Fellows are partnering for a second time with mentors from Global Voices to write stories about marginalized and misrepresented communities from across the world. Through their articles, Fellows in the Global Voices 2014 Project Team hope to bring new voices from the margins to the center, and at the same time, present challenges - and solutions - which are often missing in mainstream media coverage.
more»Global Voices 2013
Project Team
In collaboration with Global Voices, a citizen media platform, Melton Fellows helped to emphasize the voices that are not ordinarily heard in international mainstream media by translating and disseminating their stories and/or by contributing original content.
more»Chemical Leasing
Ever think about how the food we eat is sterilized? Since everything we consume carries with it the risk of spreading disease, the food and beverage industries take enormous pains to sterilize their manufacturing plants. And this sterilization process is done using… chemicals.
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Chemical Leasing is a service-oriented business model for the sustainable management of chemicals that still maintains the economic benefits for the chemical manufacturers by encouraging them to provide a cleaning service instead of selling a product, the chemical.Essencia Mapuche
Project Team
The Mapuche in the south of Chile are one of the few indigenous peoples that still exist in the country. Inspired by their rich culture and taken aback by the Chilean mass media’s portrayal of the Mapuche either allied with violence and terrorism or in stereotypically folkloric scenes, Melton Fellow and artist May Garces, and photo journalist Brittany Peterson and team engaged with Mapuche communities near Temuco to explore, capture, and share a different reality of the Mapuche people.
more»Branding Project Team
Project Team
This team helped in the re-branding process of the Melton Foundation. Roles depended on Fellows’ experience in marketing or branding or design and their available time.
more»Global Citizenship Italia – Travel Together
In September 2012, seven Melton Fellows went on a journey through Italy – but with a difference. Along with seeing sights like the Colosseum, they wanted to gain insight into various cultural, political and social issues through the eyes of local people. They asked people in Italy this question: “What do you think about Global Citizenship?” and invited them to share their ideas, hopes, aspirations, and doubts.
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