Applications for the 2025 NGFP Fellowship are now open.

If you’re interested in becoming an NGFP Fellow, please submit your application by 23:59 GMT+1 on July 31, 2024. 

Every year we invite a diverse group of visionary young professionals who have just begun to explore the futures and foresight field to apply to our NGFP Fellowship journey. We welcome applications from individuals and teams aged 18-35 who are beginning to explore the futures and foresight field and those over 35 with less than one year of experience in the sector.  

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.

We are interested in emerging practitioners who are using futures and foresight in collaborative ways for social and environmental good.

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. 

What the Fellowship offers

• 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

We invite you to apply if you are

• 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 their futures & foresight knowledge and network.
• Committed to community and network building.
• Have 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.

We are particularly enthusiastic about applications from those working on the world’s most complex issues, or what we call Foresight Transformation Missions.

While we receive many brilliant applications, the fellowship is competitive and we only have 25 spaces in each annual cohort.  However, we invite all top applicants to become part of the NGFP Sensing Network – a global network of 900+ practitioners, of which 188 are fellows. See the opportunities you can access as an NGFP network member.

Timeline

1. 1 May 2025
   Applications open
2. 31 July 2024
   Applications close
3. August – October 2025
   Judging and selection process
4. November 2025
   Fellows announced