Next Generation Foresight Practitioners (NGFP) Fellowship 2027 – YOA

Deadline: June 26, 2026

Applications are open for the Next Generation Foresight Practitioners (NGFP) Fellowship 2027. Every yr NGFP invites a various group of visionary younger professionals who’ve simply begun to discover the futures and foresight area to apply to the NGFP Fellowship journey. They welcome purposes from people and groups aged 18-35 who’re starting to discover the futures and foresight area and people over 35 with lower than one yr of expertise within the sector.

Foresight is a scientific manner of partaking with uncertainty by exploring various futures, together with aspirational ones. As a self-discipline, it has the potential to form the longer term. It is just not about predicting the longer term, however understanding your present and future working atmosphere. Insights gained from foresight equip communities and organisations to recognise and reply to rising threats and alternatives by growing enhanced competitiveness, resilience and agility.

A foresight practitioner is anybody who takes a futures method to their work to discover and perceive the impacts of longer-time period components and drivers of change on the longer term, to grasp higher how completely different futures may evolve, and to generate insights for selections made immediately.

Benefits

• A USD $1,000 kick-began fund to assist your challenge
• A platform to attach with like-minded folks from world wide
• A challenge accomplice (normally an professional foresight practitioner) 
• Foresight functionality constructing by way of the introductory coaching course
• Bi-weekly information & OPPORTUNITY emails, together with details about grants to develop your changemaking tasks
• Opportunity to be part of regional or thematic hubs 
• Opportunity to take part in related futures and foresight occasions and tasks
• Opportunity to run for a USD $10,000 prize on the finish of the fellowship yr

Eligibility

• Open to younger professionals (18-35 years previous) originally of your futures and foresight journey, and people who are older with below one yr expertise in futures and foresight.
• Looking to broaden your futures & foresight information and community.
• Committed to neighborhood and community constructing.
• Working on a courageous, pioneering, futures-centered challenge concept for lasting change on the programs stage in your communities or globally, and might be enhanced, scaled, affect deepened through the use of foresight.
• Collaborative life-lengthy learners with a protracted-time period imaginative and prescient for affect (at the least 10 years forward).
• From wherever on this planet, particularly these anchored in Asia and Africa – together with Middle East and North Africa (MENA), the Caribbean, Central and South America, the Pacific Islands and the Balkans.

They are notably keen about purposes from these engaged on the world’s most advanced points, or what they name Foresight Transformation Missions. They are: Climate & Just Transitions, Democracy & Sustainable Development, Emerging Technologies, Futures Methods From Around the World & Indigenous Futures, Health, Intergenerational Fairness, Nuclear Security & Peacebuilding, and Rural Futures.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to NGFP Fellowship.