Deadline: 30-Jun-22
Are you an innovator in foresight, working to shape or disrupt the future? If yes, then apply for Joseph Jaworski Main Award.
The Main Award recognizes an individual or a team (up to five people) that is shaping the future of their community or field. You will be using innovative approaches, bringing fresh ideas and inspiration, and be able to showcase their impact. You should be committed to putting people at the heart of the future, with a focus on impact and purpose.
Award Details
- The winner receives a USD 10,000 prize to support their project and attendance at the SOIF Summer Retreat.
- Special Awards for applications from specific geographies and sectors. All Special awardees are invited to become Fellows and receive mentoring and support from SOIF and judges. Fellows are invited to join an annual NGFP gathering.
- Funded Special Awards worth USD 1,000 each: East Asia, Small Island Developing States, Peacebuilding, Intergenerational Fairness, Balkans, Existential Risk, Security & Technology, and Over 65.
Additional Award Information
Special Awards
- They offer Special Awards to innovators in each continent and across key sectors including policy-makers, academia, entrepreneurs, humanitarian and development, education, environment, cities, and communities.
- The special awardees will join the NGFP Fellows and receive partnering opportunities and support from SOIF and the judges. All the fellows will be brought together to join a face-to-face gathering later in the year. Over the past two years, this has been held at ESPAS in Brussels.
- For 2021, they are excited to announce eight awards with secured funding. They are also seeking funding to support the special awardees financially, if you are interested in sponsoring an award, please get in touch.
Funded Special Awards
- Balkans (USD 1000)
- East Asia (USD 1000)
- Existential Risk (USD 1000)
- Intergenerational Fairness (USD 1000)
- Security and Technology (USD 1000)
- Small Island Developing States (USD 1000)
- Peacebuilding (USD 1000)
- Over 65 (USD 1000)
Sectoral Awards
- Cities For this award they look to those making waves in the foresight space with a focus on the urban space.
- Community To recognize activist practitioners making a special contribution at a local and community level.
- Development This award focuses on foresight success in the international development field, particularly in economic development.
- Education Awarding those leading the way in foresight across the education sector.
- Entrepreneur Celebrating those combining foresight, futures, and the best of entrepreneurial business thinking.
- Environment Supporting foresight and futures practitioners and activists in the vital field of environmental sustainability.
- Forced Labour Leading the fight against modern slavery using the tools of foresight and futures.
- Humanitarian Supporting innovative foresight researchers working to solve complex humanitarian problems.
- Innovative methods Supporting practitioners who are bringing innovation to the foresight and future fields.
- Policy (International and Government) Two awards highlighting foresight leaders working in policy at the international and national levels.
Geographic Awards
- For those living or working in: Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Oceania
Eligibility Criteria
- The Main Award is open to anyone aged between 18 and 35 or with less than 5 years of experience as a foresight practitioner.
- Applications are welcome from anyone who considers themselves a foresight practitioner – and is taking a futures approach to their work to explore and understand the impacts of longer-term factors and drivers of change, to better understand how different futures might evolve, and to generate insights for decisions made today.
- Eligible applicants will be invited to join SOIF’s Sensing Network, one of the largest global networks of next-generation future-alert activists representing over 88 countries across six continents around the world.
- The long-term ambition is to accelerate and amplify the work of the next generation of change-makers; to support leading thinkers using foresight as a critical tool for a better global future.
For more information, visit https://nextgenforesight.org/main-award/