Deadline: 16-Jun-21
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 recognises 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 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
- 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 meeting in Brussels.
- Funded Special Awards worth USD 2,500 each: Forced Labour and Human Trafficking, Peacebuilding, the MENA region, East Asia, Small Island Developing States and Technology and security.
Additional Award Information
- 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.
- Their special awardees will join the NGFP Fellows and receive partnering opportunities and support from SOIF and their 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 seven awards with secured funding. They are also seeking funding to support their special awardees financially, if you are interested in sponsoring an award, please get in touch.
- Funded special awards
- Forced Labour and Human Trafficking (USD 2500)
- Celebrating those leading the fight against modern slavery using the tools of foresight and futures.
- Peacebuilding (USD 2500)
- Supporting foresight and futures excellence in the peacebuilding space.
- Middle East and North Africa (USD 2500)
- For those furthering futures work in the region or raising awareness of foresight through the Arabic-speaking world.
- East Asia (USD 2500)
- For innovative practitioners working and living in East Asia.
- Small Island Developing States (USD 2500)
- For innovative practitioners working and living in Small Island Developing States.
- Technology and security (USD 2500)
- Recognising new ideas and perspectives on long-term technology threats to their personal and global security: from nuclear and biological to climate, digital and beyond
- Sectoral awards
- Education Awarding those leading the way in foresight across the education sector.
- Environment Supporting foresight and futures practitioners and activists in the vital field of environmental sustainability.
- Cities For this award we look to those making waves in the foresight space with a focus on the urban space.
- Community To recognise activists practitioners making a special contribution at a local and community level.
- Corporate For those driving foresight and futures thinking in major private-sector organisations.
- Entrepreneur Celebrating those combining foresight, futures and the best of entrepreneurial business thinking.
- Policy (International and Government) Two awards highlighting foresight leaders working in policy at the international and national levels.
- Development This award focusses on foresight success in the international development field, particularly in economic development.
- Humanitarian Supporting innovative foresight researchers working to solve complex humanitarian problems.
- Team Award To recognise groups have been leading the way on collaborative approaches to foresight and futures.
- Geographic Award
- 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’ experience as a foresight practitioner. Applications are welcome from anyone who considers themeselves 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 69 countries across six continents around the world. Their long-term ambition is to accelerate and amplify the work of the next generation of changemakers; to support leading thinkers using foresight as a critical tool for a better global future.
For more information, visit https://nextgenforesight.org/main-award/