How it works

The EA Australia Fellowship is a free, facilitated program where you’ll explore key ideas about doing good effectively with a small group of motivated peers.

3.5 hours per week

  • 2 hours preparation (readings, podcasts, exercises)
  • 1.5 hour weekly discussion

Small group experience

  • 4-6 participants per cohort
  • One dedicated facilitator
  • Weekly structured discussions

Alumni perks

  • Join alumni network
  • Access to Slack community
  • Follow-up 1:1 advising call
  • Certificate of completion

Curriculum

Week 1: The Effectiveness Mindset

We’ll explore why it’s important to think carefully about how you spend your time and money to help others, and why a “scout mindset” is critical to finding the best opportunities.

Week 2: Differences in Impact

Some efforts to help appear to be much more effective than others. We’ll share a tool for estimating impact, and look into one promising focus area: reducing global poverty.

Week 3: Radical Empathy

Should we care about the suffering of non-human animals, as well as humans? Alongside this question, we’ll explain the ideas of expected value and impartial altruism.

Week 4: Our final century?

Humanity appears to face existential risks: the chance of a catastrophe that destroys our long-run potential. Such risks include those from transformative artificial intelligence, and a future pandemic that is worse than COVID-19.

Week 5: What could the future hold? And why care?

What would the world look like if we took the interests of our grandkids’ grandkids as seriously as our own? This week, we’ll focus on longtermism, and look at a set of forecasting tools that might help us to predict the future.

Week 6: What do you think? What next?

This is a chance to read and discuss critiques of the ideas introduced so far, to form your own view. Finally, we’ll discuss ways to apply the principles of effective altruism to your own life, particularly through your career.

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What others are saying

The program was really great for understanding the core principles behind effective altruism and how they can be applied to different causes. The discussion groups were thoughtful and helped me consider new perspectives.

Grace Adams

Head of Marketing @ Giving What We Can

I’d been thinking about these ideas for a while, and the intro course was an amazing place to meet other people, ask questions, and gave me the confidence to dive into a career change.

Kevin Rassool

Operations, Strategy, & Community Building @ High Impact Athletes

My favourite thing about the virtual programs was the opportunity to meet incredibly smart people from entirely different fields who also care deeply about the things I do…It’s thanks to the virtual program that I became involved in effective altruism.

Chenoah Ellis

Senior Legal Counsel @ Slater and Gordon Lawyers & Board Member @ Effective Altruism Australia

Learn about the core ideas of effective altruism

We’ll explore why it’s important to think carefully about how you spend your time and money to help others, and why a “scout mindset” is critical to finding the best opportunities.

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