Introduction to the Fellowship
Applications are now open for the NGFP Fellowship. Foresight is a systematic way of engaging with uncertainty by exploring alternative futures, including aspirational ones. As a discipline, it has the potential to shape the future. It is not about predicting the future, but understanding your current and future operating environment. Insights gained from foresight equip communities and organisations to recognise and respond to emerging threats and opportunities by developing enhanced competitiveness, resilience and agility.
A foresight practitioner is anyone who takes a futures approach to their work to explore and understand the impacts of longer-term factors and drivers of change on the future, to understand better how different futures might evolve, and to generate insights for decisions made today.
The program is interested in emerging practitioners who are using futures and foresight in collaborative ways for social and environmental good.
Program Description
The NGFP Fellowship begins with a one-year journey of project support, collaboration and learning in community. It’s book-ended with a small kick-starter fund USD 1,000 in the beginning and a chance to win a grand prize of USD 10,000 at the end for significant progress and contribution to the NGFP community and wider emerging foresight space.
Eligibility Criteria
- Young professionals (18-35 years old) at the beginning of your futures and foresight journey, and those who are older with under one year experience in futures and foresight.
- Looking to expand your futures & 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 communities or globally, and can be enhanced, scaled, impact deepened by using foresight.
- Collaborative life-long 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 Middle East and North Africa (MENA), the Caribbean, Central and South America, the Pacific Islands and the Balkans.
Benefits
- A USD 1,000 kick-started 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 our introductory training course
- Bi-weekly news & opportunity emails, including information about grants to develop your changemaking projects
- Opportunity to be part of regional or thematic hubs
- Opportunity to participate in relevant futures and foresight events and projects
- Opportunity to run for a USD 10,000 prize at the end of the fellowship year
Application Process
Application Timeline:
- 20 April 2026: Applications open
- 26 June 2026: Applications close
- July – September 2026: Judging and selection process
- October 2026: Fellows announced
- December 2026: SOIF community event
- January 2027: NGFP Fellows orientation
Application Deadline
The application deadline is 26 June 2026.
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