Become a field-ready eco-scientist.
A 4–5 day immersive boot camp across Bangladesh's most ecologically critical landscapes — mangroves, coral reefs, haors, estuaries and coasts — for undergraduate students of every discipline.
People living on a delta system among the world's most climate-vulnerable.
Bangladesh trains thousands of students for environmental careers — yet most never set foot in the field.
The Sundarbans are losing salinity tolerance year by year. Saint Martin's corals are bleaching. Cox's Bazar erodes a little more each monsoon. The haors of Sylhet flood harder, sooner. The country sits at the front line of the global climate crisis — yet undergraduate training remains overwhelmingly classroom-bound.
The Eco-Science Boot Camp closes the gap with structured fieldwork in the places that matter most, taught by experts, equipped with professional-grade instruments, and producing real research output.
Capacity gap
Graduates leave university without practical field skills, instrumentation experience or research workflow.
Data gap
Critical sites lack locally-generated environmental data, weakening advocacy and policy work.
Engagement gap
Young people have few structured pathways into hands-on conservation outside major metro institutions.
The classroom is the country itself.
Each camp moves to a new ecosystem with its own research theme, instruments and questions. Click a location to explore.
Saint Martin Island
Bangladesh's only coral island sits at the southern tip of the Bay of Bengal, hosting fragile reef ecosystems under sustained pressure from bleaching, unregulated tourism and marine pollution. Participants will conduct water quality assessments, coral health monitoring and study the impact of human activity on this rare marine habitat.
From classroom theory to publishable output — in five days.
A rigorous, sequenced curriculum that takes you from ecological grounding to field instrumentation to scientific writing.
Theoretical foundation
Core ecological concepts, training objectives, field ethics, safety protocols and a code of conduct for working in sensitive ecosystems. The intellectual scaffolding for everything that follows.
Ecological site visit
Expert-guided field excursions into the chosen ecosystem. Physical assessment techniques, observation methods, species and habitat identification, and structured field documentation — taught on location.
KoboToolbox & socio-ecological survey
An intensive, hands-on digital module covering questionnaire design, mobile data collection, system integration, field deployment, data retrieval, cleaning and preliminary analysis.
Marine & water quality assessment
Hands-on use of professional-grade environmental monitoring equipment. From instrument handling and calibration to sample collection, data recording, cleaning and interpretation — beginner to working-proficient.
Scientific writing & communication
A guided session where you synthesize your data into structured outputs — a short individual science-communication piece and a collaborative team research paper suitable for publication.
Everything you need, on us.
Your registration covers accommodation, meals, instruction, equipment use, training materials, networking and certification.
Accommodation
Residential lodging across the camp duration, organized and paid for.
All meals
Three balanced meals per day plus a mid-camp networking BBQ.
Pro instruments
Full access to scientific equipment for hands-on data collection.
KoboToolbox license
Hands-on training and tooling for digital data collection.
Welcome kit
File folder, notebook, pen, working plan, itinerary, food plan.
Eco-gear
Branded program T-shirt and a reusable steel water pot.
Local transport
All in-camp transfers and site visits arranged for you.
Certification
Official Certificate of Completion at the end of the camp.
A two-stage selection process — open to every discipline.
The program is open to passionate undergraduates from any field. Diversity across discipline, university, region and background is a selection priority.
Essay submission
A short written essay assessing motivation, environmental awareness, prior exposure to relevant issues, and the contribution you expect to make to the cohort.
Structured interview
A conversation with the selection committee to assess communication ability, commitment, and your fit within a small, intensive cohort.
Welcome aboard
Selected candidates receive their offer letter, joining instructions, the program itinerary, and access to pre-camp briefings.
A platform built for partnership.
Whether you're a university, NGO, donor agency or corporate sponsor — there's a structured way to engage.
Universities & academic institutions
Partner with us to deliver structured field training that complements your classroom curriculum — without the overhead of running it in-house.
- Faculty co-instruction and joint accreditation pathways
- Priority student nominations from your institution
- Co-authorship opportunities on team research output
- Curriculum partnership for credit-bearing electives
- Access to camp datasets for ongoing research
Build a curriculum partnership.
From co-delivery to credit-bearing modules — we'd love to talk.
NGOs & civil society
Bring your community access, local expertise and conservation networks into a structured training pipeline that produces both trained researchers and usable data.
- Community access partnerships at field sites
- Co-delivery of thematic curriculum modules
- Access to camp datasets for advocacy & programmatic use
- Alumni engagement and recruitment pipeline
- Joint publications and co-branded reports
Co-deliver a camp.
If your work intersects with our themes, let's build something together.
Donor agencies
Fund a low-cost, high-impact, replicable model for experiential environmental education — one already aligned with SDGs 4, 13, 14, 15 and 17.
- Full or partial grant funding to subsidize participant fees
- Underwriting equipment, faculty or location-specific costs
- Multi-cycle scale-up support and regional expansion
- Detailed MEL framework with Output/Outcome/Impact indicators
- Reporting, attribution and joint communications
Fund a cohort or location.
From single-cohort funding to multi-year scale-up — we'll match the structure to your priorities.
Corporate sponsors
CSR-aligned, climate-relevant, and visible. Sponsor a cohort, a location or an equipment package, and become part of a story that scales.
- Branded sponsorship of cohorts, locations or equipment packages
- Visibility across cohort materials, certificates and communications
- In-kind contribution of products, services or expertise
- Employee engagement and volunteering pathways
- Named scholarships for under-represented students
Sponsor with purpose.
Tier-based sponsorship packages with clear CSR alignment.
A national pipeline of climate-ready young scientists.
By the end of Cycle 01, we aim to have trained, equipped and networked the first wave of field-competent undergraduates across five of Bangladesh's most ecologically critical regions.
Aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals
Bangladesh's environmental future will be shaped by how well the next generation can read, study and act on the ecological systems they live within. This program is the bridge.
Questions, answered.
Everything you need to know before applying. Can't find what you're looking for? Get in touch.
Any undergraduate student, from any academic discipline, currently enrolled at a recognized institution. We actively encourage applications from non-environmental majors — diversity of background strengthens the cohort.
The standard registration fee is 9,500 BDT, covering accommodation, meals, training materials, local transport and equipment use throughout the camp. Subsidies and scholarships are available through partner support — please mention financial need in your application.
The first batch will be onboarded in the last week of June 2026. Subsequent cohorts will roll out across the five locations over the following months. Specific dates per location are confirmed at offer-letter stage.
No. The curriculum is designed to take you from beginner to working-proficient on instrumentation, KoboToolbox, and scientific writing. What we look for is motivation, curiosity and commitment to applying what you learn.
A two-stage process: a written essay assessing motivation and awareness, followed by a structured interview. We actively select for diversity across gender, university, geographic origin, discipline and socio-economic background.
An individual short science-communication piece based on your fieldwork, and contribution to a collaborative team research paper which Nirmol Bangladesh will help facilitate for publication. Plus an official Certificate of Completion.
Yes. We actively partner with universities for student nominations, faculty co-instruction, joint accreditation pathways and credit-bearing collaborations. Reach out via the Partner form for a discussion.
Donors can fund full cohorts, sponsor specific locations, underwrite equipment costs, or support multi-cycle scale-up. We can provide a detailed funding pack, line-item budgets, and a full MEL framework on request.
Ready to step into the field?
Cohort 01 launches the last week of June 2026. Applications close as soon as quality candidates are matched — apply early.