A career move
One you’re weighing up.
The EA Fellowship
Make a plan for your career and your giving, and have it honestly tested.
Five weeks in a group of 4 to 8, led by an experienced facilitator. Bring a real decision, like a career move or a giving budget, and work it through with people who will tell you honestly where it’s weak.
Next round: early 2027
Free · selective, we read every application · over 1,000 people have completed it
Your five weeks
- Week 1EA defined, reasoning transparency
- Week 2Measure impact
- Week 3Reason under uncertainty
- Week 4Prioritise between problems
- Week 5Your plan, tested
Find out where it’s weak.
- Duration
- 5 weeks
- Time
- About 3.5 hours a week
- Group
- 4 to 8 people and a facilitator
- Price
- Free, by application
Is this for you?
Built for people with a real decision to make
It’s a good fit if:
- You want to do good through your career, your giving and your politics, and you’d rather work from evidence than instinct.
- You’re comfortable with hard trade-offs, including for animals, people far away and people who don’t exist yet.
- You enjoy thinking hard, and you’ll take unconventional problems seriously.
- You’re building career capital in policy, research, organisation building, communicating ideas, or a pressing problem.
Come with one of these:
A giving budget
One you want to allocate better.
A project
One you’re deciding whether to start.
Most are mid-career: 77% have at least two years of work experience
- Under 2 years 6%
- 2 to 10 years 33%
- 11 to 20 years 28%
- Over 20 years 16%
- Students 18%
52%have a master’s degree or a PhD
Most common fieldsOperations and management, communications, strategy and leadership, tech and AI, policy, entrepreneurship
You don’t need to already agree with us. You’ll disagree with some of the readings, and the sessions are built to make that disagreement productive.
Five weeks, one skill a week
Each week you practise one skill in low-stakes exercises. In week 5 you do the real thing, on your own plan, and get feedback on it.
- 1
Effective altruism defined, and reasoning transparency
Why effectiveness matters: good intentions can still do harm, and the best ways to help do many times more than the rest.
- 2
Measuring impact
Compare interventions with QALYs, DALYs and WELLBYs, and read charity recommendations critically.
- 3
Reasoning under uncertainty
Expected value, calibration and forecasting, so thin evidence doesn’t stop you acting.
- 4
Prioritising between problems
Use importance, tractability and neglectedness to find where your effort matters most.
- 5
Putting it into practice
Turn it into a concrete plan for your career, giving and political voice, and have your group test it.
A typical week
- Read the background material, about 2 hours
- Take a short quiz and do the exercise
- Improve each other’s work in a 75-minute workshop
Why it’s built this way. The design draws on self-determination theory: skills with feedback rather than lectures, each week tied back to your own values, and a small cohort rather than working alone.
Does it work?
A fair question before you give it five weeks
After each round we ask participants how it went. Here’s what they told us.
8.7 / 10
8.9 / 10
~3
- 202363%
- 202577%
Share of participants who said they felt more confident, end-of-round survey.
Track record
Part of a movement with a track record
The Fellowship is your way into a global community. This is what it has achieved so far.
$2bnmoved to effective causes in 2025 alone
Where it went, roughly
New Dutch organisations
Effective altruism helped give rise to the School for Moral Ambition, Geefrevolutie, Doneer Effectief and Safe AI Netherlands.
Dozens of new charities
Ambitious Impact has started 40+ charities that serve 35 million people and a billion animals.
Systemic change
The Open Wing Alliance has helped get 250 million more hens out of cages since 2013, and the Lead Exposure Elimination Project is set to spare tens of millions of children lead exposure.
AI safety and pandemics
Effective altruists helped build the field of AI safety. Neel Nanda at Google DeepMind pioneered ways to see inside AI models, and the Nucleic Acid Observatory built monitoring to spot dangerous biological sequences before they spread.
“The rational approach, combined with space for open, critical discussions within an inspiring group, made it particularly valuable.”
CEO of SteadRise
Next round: early 2027
Join the waitlist now and we’ll email you when the dates are set. If they don’t suit you, you can move to a later round.
Choose one session time
- Monday17:30–18:45
- Monday19:30–20:45
- Thursday17:30–18:45
- Thursday19:30–20:45
None of these work? Get in touch and we’ll try to find another time.
- Online, or in person where we can. Most groups meet online; many participants prefer in person.
- About 3.5 hours a week. A 75-minute session plus about 2 hours of reading and exercises. Come with your exercises done.
- For people in, or connected to, the Netherlands. Abroad, or want to start sooner? Join the international virtual programme.
Five weeks is where you meet people
Participants have gone on to work in government, start organisations, do research and lead teams at high-impact nonprofits. Some changed career; others found more impact in the path they were already on.
The rest of EAN is where you keep working with them: local groups across the Netherlands, a co-working space in Amsterdam, and EAGxAmsterdam.
Ready to apply?
Come with a decision you’re weighing up, and leave with a plan you’ve stress-tested against people who will tell you where it’s weak.
Can’t wait until 2027? What you write in the quick course’s last lesson can go straight into your application.