NGFP NETWORK

The NGFP community is one of the largest global networks of next-generation future-alert changemakers. Our members belong to a global platform to share ideas, develop meaningful connections, engage in constructive dialogue on key global issues, expand their learning, and enhance their foresight projects’ impact.

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NGFP FELLOWSHIP

Every year we welcome a diverse group of changemakers exploring the futures and foresight field to join our network. Foresight capacity building, mentorship, funding for project development and connection to 600+ network members are some of the benefits of embarking on this journey.

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WHAT IS NGFP?

The Next Generation Foresight Practitioners (NGFP) is an initiative by the School of International Futures (SOIF) to support and empower the next generation of changemakers using futures and foresight as a tool to re-imagine and co-create more equitable and inclusive futures globally.

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We are looking for a Communications Lead to join our team. Surround yourself with our inspiring network of futures thinkers and doers.

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What is foresight

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.

Why do we need to democratise the future?

Today, the futures and foresight field is still largely dominated by Global North voices from older generations. However, better, fairer and more equitable futures for all can only be built if everyone has the same opportunities to participate meaningfully in this co-creation. In order for all communities to use foresight and have their own conversations about it to shape their futures, they need their own people, methods and approaches.

NGFP is committed to providing a platform for the development and support of younger generations of futures and foresight practitioners, particularly from the Global South. Their needs, experiences, perspectives and methods must equally inform the pathways towards our collective preferred futures.

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