🌍 Global Fellowship 🔮 NGFP 2027: Next Generation Foresight Practitioners for Young Changemakers 🌱 (USD 1,000 fund + USD 10,000 prize)

Applications for the NGFP 2027 Fellowship are now open. Every year, the Next Generation Foresight Practitioners (NGFP) programme invites a diverse group of visionary young professionals who have just begun to explore the futures and foresight field. The fellowship is a one-year journey of project support, collaboration and learning in community, book-ended with a USD 1,000 kick-starter fund at the start and a chance to win a USD 10,000 grand prize at the end for significant progress and contribution.

What Is Foresight?

Foresight is a systematic way of engaging with uncertainty by exploring alternative futures, including aspirational ones. It is not about predicting the future, but understanding your current and future operating environment, equipping communities and organisations to recognise and respond to emerging threats and opportunities with enhanced competitiveness, resilience and agility. NGFP is interested in emerging practitioners using futures and foresight in collaborative ways for social and environmental good.

What the Fellowship Offers

💵 A USD 1,000 kick-starter fund to support your project

🌍 A platform to connect with like-minded people from around the world

🤝 A project partner (usually an expert foresight practitioner)

🎓 Foresight capability building via an introductory training course

📨 Bi-weekly news and opportunity emails, including information about grants to develop your changemaking projects

🌐 The opportunity to be part of regional or thematic hubs

📅 The opportunity to participate in relevant futures and foresight events and projects

🏆 The chance to run for a USD 10,000 prize at the end of the fellowship year

Who Can Apply

🔞 Young professionals (18-35) at the beginning of their futures and foresight journey, and those who are older with under one year of experience in the field

📈 Looking to expand your futures and foresight knowledge and network

🤝 Committed to community and network building

💡 Working on a brave, pioneering, futures-focused project idea for lasting change at the systems level in your community or globally, that can be enhanced, scaled or deepened using foresight

🌱 Collaborative lifelong learners with a long-term vision for impact (at least 10 years ahead)

🌍 From anywhere in the world, especially those anchored in Asia and Africa (including MENA), the Caribbean, Central and South America, the Pacific Islands and the Balkans

Foresight Transformation Missions

NGFP is particularly enthusiastic about applications working on the world's most complex issues:

🌡️ Climate & Just Transitions

🗳️ Democracy & Sustainable Development

🤖 Emerging Technologies

🪶 Futures Methods From Around the World & Indigenous Futures

🩺 Health

⚖️ Intergenerational Fairness

☮️ Nuclear Security & Peacebuilding

🌾 Rural Futures

Good to Know

🎟️ The fellowship is competitive, with only 25 spaces in each annual cohort. Top applicants are invited to join the NGFP Sensing Network, a global network of 900+ practitioners, of whom 188 are fellows

The Details

🌍 Location: global (open from anywhere in the world)

🔮 Programme: NGFP 2027 Fellowship (a one-year journey)

👥 For: individuals and teams aged 18-35 beginning in futures/foresight, or older applicants with under one year of experience

💵 Funding: a USD 1,000 kick-starter fund, plus a chance to win a USD 10,000 grand prize

🎓 Includes training, a project partner, hubs and a global network

How to Apply

📝 Start your application online (linked below). Got questions? Join an upcoming Q&A session, watch recordings of past sessions, or email fellowship@nextgenforesight.org