The Junior Fellowship is a two-year program while Fellows are still undergraduate students. The most outstanding performers in the program are awarded a third “honors year” which includes additional learning and leadership-development opportunities.

The main purpose of the Junior Fellow program is to provide deep experiential learning in order to train and empower Fellows to become global citizens. This is achieved by a combination of:

Face-to-face and online workshops, events, and homestays for skill training and advanced knowledge about global citizenship;

Global citizenship projects as opportunities for experiential learning.

Cross-cultural team-building activities that create the social capital needed to be sustainable and effective across boundaries of culture, geography, age, and discipline.

By the end of the Junior Fellowship program, Fellows are prepared to apply their knowledge and skills to an expanding sphere of influence and to continue engaging in global citizenship projects and contributing to the Melton Network as mentors, project leaders, trainers, and in other roles. Fellows have also established deep relationships among their peers; this underpins the network’s ability to sustain and support itself long-term.