Calls for Projects

Each year, the Snowleader Foundation launches a call for project during winter. The associative projects must respond to two big themes: facilitating access for young people in the mountains and /or environmental protection in mountain areas. 

In parallel, we are equally committed along with other general interest players of the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes region to work together on common subjects. We join forces with other foundations to launch common calls for projects, and we are a member of a community that unites the funds and foundations of the alpine mountain ranges. This way, if we work together, we hope that our actions will be heard further and further in the mountains! 

Ecological Transition in Mountain Areas

The Snowleader and Petzl Foundations

Our foundations

For the fifth year, the Petzl Foundation and the Snowleader Foundation are joining forces to accelerate the ecological transition in mountain regions across France and Europe.

In the face of the climate, environmental, and social challenges that are already transforming our mountains, we want to support those who are envisioning, experimenting with, and implementing new ways of living, traveling, and coexisting while respecting planetary boundaries.

The call for projects is open to public-interest organizations and nonprofit project leaders active in France’s mountain regions. It is also open to European project leaders active in the Alps, the Pyrenees, and the mountain ranges of Norway.

The theme

With this new call for projects for 2025, we are seeking innovative solutions that address the specific challenges facing mountain regions: how to adopt alternative modes of transportation, preserve our fragile ecosystems, and adapt our regions to climate change.
The three focus areas addressing the theme of this call for projects are:

  • reducing greenhouse gas emissions (renewable energy, sustainable transportation, recycling, reuse, etc.);
  • preserving biodiversity in mountain regions (management or restoration of mountain wilderness areas, conservation of vulnerable species, etc.);
  • sustaining small-scale mountain farming (agroforestry, local food production, short supply chains, landscape maintenance, mountain water management, etc.);

Timeline

  • July 1, 2026: Launch of the Call for Projects
  • September 13, 2026: Application submission deadline
  • October 2026: Shortlisting of proposals
  • October/November 2026: Review of proposals by the jury
  • November 2026: Awards ceremony
  • January 2027: Project funding

The Snowleader Foundation

Annual Call for Projects

Submit a project

Do you have a meaningful project, that responds to the missions of the Snowleader Foundation? Prepare your application, and send it through at the annual call for projects, in December. 

The themes

You are a general interest association, a non-profit project manager? Send your application through. 
Themes: 

  • Facilitating access for young people in the mountains
    The project facilitates children’s and / or young people’s access in the mountains, helping them discover this universe that they know so little, or not at all, discover its activities, its own environment, etc. 
  • Acting in favour of mountain protection
    The project aims at actions on site, or at raising awareness for the preservation, and the protection of natural areas in the mountains (biodiversity protection, water and glacier preservation, eco-friendly transportation, recycling, installation dismantling, raising public awareness, etc.)

Imagine Your Mountains

A common call for projects

Our collective

We are:
The Aava Foundation
The Banque Populaire Auvergne Rhône Alpes Foundation
The Caisse d’Epargne Rhône Alpes Foundation
The Enfance et Montagne Endowment Fund
The Essentiem Endowment Fund
The Glénat Foundation
The Montagne en Scène Foundation
The Petzl Foundation
The Poma Foundation
The Snowleader Foundation
The Grenoble Alpes University Foundation

Every year, our group of general interest structures for the alpine regions proposes a grant for the support and development of young people’s commitment to mountain protection.

The theme

Together, we wish to reach out to as many young people as possible, to prepare them for the future. The goal of the ‘Imagine your Mountains’ call for projects is to allow associations submit projects that work towards environmental protection, and that are designed for young people.
Raising awareness on natural areas protection, or direct actions for protection or restoration: small or big, these initiatives must aim at engaging today’s children and youth to develop a responsibility towards alpine environment ecology. 

This call for projects is opened to all legal entities working in the alpine area. 
Submitted projects must respond to general interest goals, and to address the young public. (Pupils, students in secondary school, high school, or the public under 18 years old) The number of beneficiaries of the winning project must be higher than 25 young people.