Win a Chance to Present at the African Futures Conference 2025 in Pretoria – YOA

Deadline: August 26, 2025

Apply now to take part in the African Futures Conference 2025. The African Futures Conference is the continent’s premier platform to discover and amplify African-led foresight. In 2025, they invite policymakers, analysts, researchers, younger changemakers, and foresight practitioners to interact in two days of daring considering, rigorous evaluation and sensible collaboration.

The theme Insight, Imagination, Action displays their perception that sustainable African futures should be grounded in credible proof, fueled by visionary creativity and translated into significant impression.

This yr’s occasion will embrace:

• The launch of the Africa 2043 Futures Report
• Exciting audio system from throughout the continent
• Curated classes on Africa’s future
• A arms-on rotating Futures Lab
• Young changemakers competitors

Call for contributions: share your concepts!

They are looking for proposals for talks, classes, inventive showcases or instruments that match inside a number of of the three convention pillars:

1. Insight: Grounding African futures in proof and evaluation

• Explore rising improvement developments utilizing knowledge and modelling
• Share slicing-edge knowledge and modelling that inform lengthy-time period African improvement
• Reflect on the use and limitations of African knowledge for foresight
• Explore improvements in strategic planning and quantitative forecasting

2. Imagination: Envisioning futures via inventive storytelling

• Share initiatives or campaigns that encourage new narratives about Africa’s future
• Showcase participatory state of affairs-constructing or public creativeness workout routines
• Explore how storytelling drives change
• Link imaginative foresight to actual-world values and aspirations

3. Action: Embedding foresight in coverage, governance and observe

• Share classes from making use of foresight in African governance or coverage house
• Highlight actual-world foresight purposes in nationwide plans or reforms
• Explore classes from failed/stalled foresight initiatives
• Offer sensible instruments or institutional pathways for lengthy-time period integration

Additional: Young Changemakers Competition

They are providing younger changemakers (beneath the age of 35) the OPPORTUNITY to submit progressive and artistic contributions. Submit and share your imaginative and prescient of Africa’s future in 2050.

• Format: 1 500-phrase written story (Word or PDF) or 3-minute video (MP4)
• Prize: Top 3 winners invited to attend in-person in Pretoria

Eligibility

• Policymakers, researchers, knowledge scientists, civil society leaders, younger changemakers, and anybody constructing Africa’s future via foresight.

Submission Format

• Lightning discuss (7min)
• Presentation (15min)
• Workshop (45min)

Application

Submit through the on-line kind by Tuesday, 26 August 2025 with:

• Name, affiliation and call particulars
• Preferred format: Lightning discuss / Presentation / Hosted workshop / Changemakers submission
• Which pillar(s) does/do your contribution match: Insight/Imagination/Action
• Title and summary (max 300 phrases)

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to African Futures Conference.