FAQ

To find out whether your city will participate in a Women4Climate Mentorship Programme, please follow our updates on our Facebook Group , Twitter account and sign up to our newsletter via the Women4Climate website.

You can also find the information about cities participate in our programmes here. 

To become a mentor in your city, please send us an email with your name, title, CV, motivation letter and a short description as to why you would like to volunteer as a mentor.

To find out more about the W4C events please read our Events page, where you can find the details of the event and also how to participate. If you would like to find out more, please get in touch with us by indicating your name, title, position and a short description as to why you would like to participate in the event.

In short, the Women4Climate Mentorship Programme is a peer-to-peer relationship between an experienced mentor and a mentee in order to enhance the mentees agency and autonomy in a chosen domain. The programme usually runs for 10 months and enables mentees to become part of a global platform consisting of other climate heroines who are part of its network. The mentoring also enables mentees to connect to a powerful network of mayors, city officials, global change-makers and industry professionals. You can find out more about the mentorship programmes active in C40 cities here.

Cities can part take in other initiatives of W4C. Cities can join as implementing partners of the Tech Challenge or they can provide  be a part of our Knowledge Lab and provide valuable information on research pillars focused on the gendered impacts of climate change.

If you are a researcher, city practitioner, startuper or expert, and your work corresponds to the gender specific impacts of climate change, please reach out to us here, indicating your name, title, and a brief (max. 250 words) summary of your project. We will get in touch as soon as we can.

If you are a woman (C40 uses an inclusive definition of “woman” and “female”. Transwomen, genderqueer women, and non-binary people who identify, have identified, or have been identified as female or woman are welcome to apply) and you are passionate about finding innovative and inclusive solutions to tackle climate change in cities, and you run a project/initiative you should be eligible to apply for the W4C Mentorship Programme. To check whether you are eligible to participate, please check here and see if your city is running a programme. Bear in mind that applicants must be located in the city that hosts the initiative, so please make sure not to apply to a mentorship programme that is not in your city. 
 

We accept applications for projects at any stage, from idea to fully rolled-out concept. Our only requirement is that you have a structured development or business plan, and that you are able to demonstrate the impact you expect to achieve or have achieved.

Regardless of the stage of development of your project, it is important that we understand:

• The products or services your delivery, and how
• Your aim and how you plan to get there
• Your key partners
• Your customers or audience
• Your funding plan
• Your intended impact and how you demonstrate it

The winners will start a residency in one of C40’s host city, like Lisbon, Los Angeles, Stockholm or Tel Aviv-Yafo. There, C40 and its partners will work with the winners to understand the type of support required to deliver the impact objectives of the project. They will then offer this support through the form of acceleration or experimentation programmes, with the collaboration of the relevant city departments.

The project can initially be developed for any city, including a mid-size city. However please bear in mind that the winners will get to experiment their project in one of the host C40 Cities.  

We define tech solutions as providing a technical service or product, or heavily relying on it. It can be digital, mechanical or civic technology.

We understand teams might be mixed, however the woman applying will need to be, if not founder or CEO, playing a leading role in the organisation.