Call for Applications: NGFP 2025 Fellowship for Young Professionals

Every year, NGFP 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.  

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 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. 

• Table of Content
• About Next Generation Foresight Practitioners (NGFP)
• NGFP Fellowship
• Aim and Benefits of NGFP Fellowship
• Requirements for NGFP Fellowship Qualification
• Interview date, Process and Venue for NGFP Fellowship
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About Next Generation Foresight Practitioners (NGFP)

Launched in 2018 by the School of International Futures (SOIF), the Next Generation Foresight Practitioners (NGFP) is a network of over 600 people from all over the world who are using futures and foresight to create positive impact and systemic transformation globally. Our members come from various geographies, areas of expertise, and walks of life – from working with food systems in India to developing new technologies in Kenya to reshaping the future of elections in the US to redesigning interspecies friendly cities in Germany. What they all have in common are except... continue reading

NGFP Fellowship

Aim and Benefits of NGFP Fellowship

• 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

Requirements for NGFP Fellowship Qualification

• 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.
• 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.

Interview date, Process and Venue for NGFP Fellowship

Application Timeline:

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

Application Deadline

How to Apply

For more details, visit NGFP Fellowship webpage