A UNFCCC Global Innovation Hub programme

The global standard for student work that's actually real.

FIELDWORK is where the world's most driven students do real fieldwork, get it independently verified, and carry a permanent public record that universities everywhere can trust and search. One method. Two sides. A global registry of proof.

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Cohort

2026 · Open

Format

Application-only

Reach

0+ countries

Status

Live

Recognised and backed by

UNFCCC Global Innovation Hub UNESCO India MIT Solve United Nations Google NYU Mozilla Data Collective

The system

Five connected systems. One standard.

FIELDWORK is a stack of connected systems that together make a student's work real, permanent, and verifiable anywhere in the world. Each layer does one job.

The Credential

A permanent public record every student carries for life. Checkable by an admissions officer in thirty seconds, with a verifiable ID and a URL that never gets reassigned.

Public · permanent

The Registry

Every project and deployed tool, permanently hosted and indexed. The single global record of who has done real, verified fieldwork, and what it produced.

Global · indexed

The Verification Layer

Human mentors and a rigorous four-phase rubric decide whether work is real. Nothing reaches the record without passing it, which is what gives the credential its weight.

Reviewed · trusted

The Four-Phase Method

The engine every student moves through: Observe and Map, Frame and Design, Model, Build and Deploy. Field-tested with international school cohorts and validated against real urban problems.

The engine

The Faculty & Global Network

Scientists, researchers, mentors, and a growing network of universities. The people and institutions who supervise the work, and who come to the registry to find talent.

People · institutions

A two-sided platform

Students prove it. Universities find it.

The same verified record that helps a student stand out is the record a university can search. One side generates real proof of ability. The other side has been waiting for exactly that.

Do work that speaks for itself

Real fieldwork on a real problem, in a place you can reach, ending in a deployed tool that carries your name.

Get it independently verified

Independent review gives your record a weight that carries into any field you apply to.

Carry it for life, share it anywhere

A permanent public link and QR you put on any application, in any country. It updates as you go from grade nine onward.

Be discoverable to universities

Opt in, and your verified record becomes visible to universities scouting for exactly the initiative you've shown. You stay in control of your visibility.

Your record · how universities see it

YouVerified

3 verified cycles · Mumbai, India · Grade 11

Computer SciencePublic Policy

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You control visibility. Verified records are private by default. You choose whether universities can find you, and you can turn it off anytime.

Search proven ability

Filter a global pool of students by field, country, and completed verified cycles. Every profile is backed by work you can inspect for yourself.

Every candidate is pre-verified

Independent review has already happened. You see students who have demonstrably done real, deployed work across every discipline, from computer science to public health to engineering.

Reach talent beyond your usual pipeline

Discover driven students from countries and schools you don't normally recruit from. The registry is global by design.

Consent-based and compliant

You only ever see students who have opted in to being discovered. Built for the reality of working with minors' data, from the ground up.

verified · computer science · asia · deployed tool

Verified onlyField: CSDeployed a toolGrade 11–12

Verified

3 cycles · Singapore · deployed tool live 8 mo

Computer ScienceRobotics

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Verified

2 cycles · Nairobi, Kenya · field data, 400 records

Public HealthData

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Verified

4 cycles · São Paulo, Brazil · led 6 juniors

EngineeringLeadership

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Names revealed only on student opt-in. Students choose to be discoverable. Identities stay masked until a student agrees to connect.

Recognition

Backed by the institutions that set the bar.

FIELDWORK is built by Earth5R, whose work in urban sustainability and citizen science is recognised across the UN system, leading universities, and a council of globally significant advisors.

Institutional recognition

UNFCCC

Global Innovation Hub · Bangalore

UNESCO

India recognition

MIT Solve

Solver recognition

United Nations

Recognised programme partner

Google

Top 15 recognition

New York University

Institutional collaboration

Mozilla

Data Collective

Advisory council

Ovais Sarmad

Former Deputy Executive Secretary, UNFCCC

Ouided Bouchamaoui

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, 2015

Dr Julie Newman

Director of Sustainability, MIT

Marine Ragnet

Researcher, New York University

On the global stage

World platforms

Founder featured alongside heads of state and global leaders

India–France Young Leader

Recognised at the highest diplomatic level

Field-validated

Multi-year fieldwork on Bengaluru's lakes with citizen scientists

The global standard for student work that's actually real.

Five connected systems. One standard.

Students prove it. Universities find it.

Backed by the institutions that set the bar.

Selective. Global. Application-only.