We help you use your career to have the largest positive impact.

What is Effective Altruism Cambridge?

What we stand for

We're a community of students who take seriously the question of how to do the most good with the resources available to us — and we're here to support you in doing the same.

These are hard questions, and we don't have all the answers, but we're convinced they're best tackled together.

four ideas you (probably) agree with

1) Everyone deserves equal moral consideration

2) Helping others is important, and helping more is better than helping less

3) Not all ways of helping are equally effective

4) Our resources are limited

What do we do about it

Given our limited resources, we try to use reason and evidence to find the most effective ways to help others.

This means going beyond our intuitions, and prioritising causes which effect a great number of people but are nevertheless neglected.

Some of the causes we prioritise ‍

Global Health and Development

Animal Welfare

Biosecurity

AI Safety

Democratic preservation

What do we offer?

Events & Socials

Events that build community
Whether it’s co-working or our Wednesday Socials. Meet other people driven to do good in a casual setting. Find out about the details here.

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Project Based Fellowship

Introductory fellowship

Explore EA principles across multiple cause areas (like AI, animal welfare, and global health) and complete an impactful research project.

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CHIRP

Cambridge High Impact Research Project (CHIRP)

8-week student research programme, with expert mentorship from established researchers and practitioners, where teams of students tackle policy-relevant research questions. With up to £2000 in prizes to outstanding projects

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1-1 Career advice

Plan your future
Have a productive 1 on 1 to help your career be more impactful. With help making connections with people in the field. Find out if this is right for you by booking a chat here

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Collaborations

We are happy to work with aligned organisations & societies
Collaborations done with organisations like Plant based university, Animal advocacy forum, Alternative proteins and School of moral ambition. If your running a society that wants to make a positive difference, reach out.

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Speaker Events

EA related speaker events
Talks given by various experts on neglected, high importance and tractable issues. As well as talks to improve your academic and professional career. See luma to find out what events are coming soon.

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Sub-committee projects

Projects ran by committee members
A new initiative of small teams aiming to do good. Branch into one from our project based fellowship or apply directly. Express interest here (none currently open to applications).

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Events and socials

What is Effective Altruism globally?

A question, a philosophy and a movement

How can we first improve the world? Then, second, do it the best way we can?

Effective Altruism (EA for short) is a “global network of people and organisations putting the ideas into practice. Using reason and evidence to find the most effective ways to help others.” - effectivealtruism.org

Find out for yourself