Joseph Jaworski
Next Generation Foresight Practitioners Award
An annual award inaguarated in 2018 to recognise the next generation’s endeavours in shaping the future
Congratulations
2018 Winners
SOIF are very excited to announce the winners of the Joseph Jaworski Next Generation Foresight Practitioners Award.
We received over 75 applications from over 40 different nationalities, from Azerbaijan to Zambia.
The applications were so fantastic we have not only awarded a main winner but have a runner-up and 12 Special Awardees.
We would like to thank all of you who took the time to apply, we were honoured and inspired by the quality and diversity of your applications and proposals.
Read more| Main Award: | Pupul Bisht |
| Runner-Up and Africa Special Award: | Oluwabunmi Ajilore |
| North America Special Award: | Maggie Greyson |
| Europe Special Award: | Cathy Madge |
| Development Special Award: | Emily Empel |
| South America Special Award: | Aline Roldan |
| Humanitarian Special Award: | Daniel Olarte |
| Community Special Award: | Justyna Król |
| Joint Education Special Award: | Erica Bol |
| International Policy Special Award: | Özge Aydogan |
| Joint Education Special Award: | Aileen Moeck |
| Oceania Special Award: | Elliot Brennan |
| National/Local Policy Special Award: | Juan Manuel Avalos |
| Asia Special Award: | Veerappan Swaminathan |
Why
Foresight
Why
Foresight
Who we want to support
The world is changing and as it does we need new sources of inspiration and innovation. Change will come from many arenas and peoples. It will come from a new generation, millennials, with new aspirations and values. But equally from new geographies, with a growing foresight practice in Africa and Asia. As well as second and third career practitioners entering the field from other domains, with fresh ideas and approaches from across civil society, business and creative industries.
The Joseph Jaworski Next Generation Foresight Practitioners Award aims to identify these innovators and support them in their endeavours.
How we want to support
The Award will provide one winner with $25k funding to develop a new foresight initiative, and support Special Awardees to develop both personally and professionally. With our long term aim to create a global sensing-network of future-alert activists. It will provide a platform to showcase innovative practice from around the world.
Next-generation Foresight
What we are looking for
Examples of innovative Strategic Foresight practice we hope to hear about include:
Community Futures.
Next generation approaches to driving participation and empowering communities
Sustainable Futures.
New approaches to sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Innovative Methods.
From digital to design thinking, from ethnography to performance.
Foresight with Impact.
Changing the conversation and direction using futures and foresight.
Process
Apply online
| Application: | Apply online from 21 May to 01 July 2018 |
| Selection: | Entries will be screened and assessed by an International judging panel |
| Award: | Winners will be announced on 16 July 2018 |
Application
- Share a case-study about the impact and innovation of a futures initiative you have championed or led
- Submit a 2-3 minute video to tell us what you plan to do with the incubator funding of USD 25,000*
- Take part in the sensing challenge and share your views on the key issues that they think will shape the future of your community
Eligibility Criteria
Qualifying individuals must:
- Be between 18 and 35 years old at the time of entry or have fewer than ten years’ experience working in strategic foresight.
- Be actively studying or working to develop innovative foresight practice.
- Be commited to foresight with impact, purpose and with people at the heart of the future
- Be actively studying or working to develop innovative foresight practice”
- Become ambassadors within their own communities
Applications are now closed
Awards
Main Award
The Winner will receive:
- A years’ incubator funding worth USD 25,000
- Free attendance at SOIF’s Summer foresight retreat (SOIF2018) 6th-10th August 2018 – learn foresight with impact with an international group of policymakers, futurists and expert strategists
- Quarterly mentoring sessions from SOIF and partners
- Support to develop your project – as well as access to partnering and networking opportunities through SOIF’s network
Special Awards
A number of special awards will be made to recognise innovative practice (details to be confirmed soon):
Geographic awards: One award to for each of Africa, Asia, Europe, N. America, S. America and Oceania
Sectoral awards. We are seeking support to offer awards to:
- Innovators working in the field in communities and the humanitarian sector
- Policy makers in local, national or international roles
- Academics, students and educators
- Entrepreneurs
Special Awardees will benefit from partnering and networking opportunities through SOIF’s network and will be invited to take part in a series of initiatives aimed at sharing best practice amongst futurists and foresight practitioners
All qualifying entrants will
- Be invited to join a new global “Sensing Network”
- Benefit from opportunities to showcase their work online and in print
Inspiration
Joseph Jaworski
We have chosen to name the award in recognition of Joseph Jaworski, a seminal futurist and author of Synchronicity. Joseph has championed the need for foresight to be united with profound leadership in order to achieve social transformation. He inspires us across generations, being a vocal advocate for 50 years on the kind of service-leadership that is necessary for 21st century. As one of the architects of Theory U, he reminds us to put the heart and values at the centre of foresight activity.
Awards
Judges
We would like to thank our fabulous and supportive panel of judges, listed below.
The judges are a diverse group of foresight experts, activists, users, innovators and commissioners from around the world. They are colleagues who have been invited to judge applications due to their deep commitment to the values of the Award... AND their sense of adventure in supporting this pilot endeavour! We look forward to inviting them - and others - back for next year's Award.
- Anita Sykes-Kelleher Co-Founder, The Centre for Australian Foresight
- Banning Garrett Faculty, Singularity University
- Beris Gwynne Founder and Director, Incitaire
- Cat Tully Director & Founder, School of International Futures
- Daniel Dobos Co-president of the gluoNNet association
- Danièle Rechard Head of Global Trends Unit, European Parliamentary Research Service
- Darcy Winslow President, Academy for Systems Change
- David Snowden Founder and chief scientific officer, Cognitive Edge
- Fátima Azevedo Head of Division of Foresight & Planning Services,General Secretariat of the Ministry of the Environment, Portugal
- Gautam Goswami Director, Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC), India
- Geci Karuri-Sebina Director, Southern African Node of the Millennium Project
- Indy Johar Architect, co-founder of Project00.cc and Senior Innovation Associate with the Young Foundation
- Jane Davidson Pro Vice-Chancellor for External Engagement and Sustainability at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David
- John Sweeney COO & Chief Futurist - ETCH
- Marius Oosthuizen Member of faculty, Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa
- Mathew Burrows Director, Foresight, Strategy and Risks Initiative, Atlantic Council, Washington DC
- Monica Mendez Strategic thinker specialist in Mexican public sector
- Prabhat RanjanVice Chancellor of D Y Patil International University
- Peter BishopExecutive Director, Teach the Future
- Puruesh ChaudharyFounder and President AGAHI, Founder Foresight Lab
- Rahul Chandran Executive Director, Global Alliance for Humanitarian Innovation
- Ricardo Borges de Castro Adviser on Strategic Foresight, European Political Strategy Centre, European Commission
- Riel Miller Head of Futures Literacy, UNESCO
- Roger Dennis Serendipity Architect
- Rosemarie Forsythe Former Director, International Strategy, Exxon Mobil Corporation; former Director, Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian Affairs, US National Security Council
- Serge Kapto Policy Specialist, Data for Development, UNDP
- Sergio Bitar Senior Fellow Inter American Dialogue; President Consejo Chileno de Prospectiva y Estrategia
- Sohail Inayatullah UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies
- Sultan Khair Partner, Al-Bayan Investments Firm
- Tulika Raj Omidyar Network
- Vinay Gupta Founder Hexayurt Capital and Mattereum
