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2025 NEXT GENERATION FORESIGHT PRACTITIONERS FELLOWSHIP

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Application Deadline: 23:59 GMT+1 on July 31, 2025. 

LOCATION:  England 

Every year they 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. They 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. 

ELIGIBILITY:

Young professionals (18-35 years old) at the beginning of your futures and foresight journey and those who are older with under one year of 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, and its impact deepened by using foresight.

Collaborative lifelong 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. They are Climate & Just Transitions, Democracy & Sustainable Development, Emerging Technologies, Futures Methods From Around the World & Indigenous Futures, Intergenerational Fairness, Nuclear Security, and Peacebuilding.

BENEFIT:

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

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NIKON SMALL WORLD IN MOTION COMPETITION

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Application Deadline: April 30, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. ET

LOCATION: USA

The introduction of this new category, titled Small World in Motion, encompasses any movie or digital time-lapse photography taken through the microscope and adds a new, distinct discipline to the competition. The movies are judged and honored as a separate category in the competition, complete with prizes for first, second, and third places.

ELIGIBILITY:

The Nikon Small World in Motion Video Competition (the “Competition”) is open only to individuals who are at least eighteen (18) years old at the time of entry and have access to a light microscope. The following individuals are not eligible to enter the Competition:

Employees of Nikon Instruments Inc., Shaw & Todd, Inc., their respective parent companies and affiliated companies, and/or the immediate family (spouse, parents, siblings and children) and household members of each such employee,

The Competition Judges, regardless of the date of appointment, and/or their immediate family and household members, and/or

Individuals engaged (as a business owner or employee) in the manufacture, distribution, and/or sale of microscopes, related accessories, and/or photographic equipment.

During the Competition Entry Period, visit www.nikonsmallworld.com (the “Website”)

Upload up to three (3) photomicrographic digital videos taken by the Entrant (collectively, the “Videos”) to the Entry Form.

Videos must be submitted in .mp4, .mpg, .wmv, .avi, .or .mov format. 

Videos may not exceed sixty (60) seconds.

Videos may not include the use of sound and may not include any graphics of any kind. 

Videos should be submitted with the highest quality with regard to file size, bit depth, and resolution. 

Videos do not need to be taken with a Nikon-branded microscope.

PARTICIPATION IN THE COMPETITION AND/OR THE RECEIPT OF ANY PRIZE MAY BE RESTRICTED OR VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.

BENEFIT:

The top 5 prize winners are selected and ranked by the Small World in Motion Judges.

1st PrizeUSD $3,000
2nd PrizeUSD $2,000
3rd PrizeUSD $1,000
4th PrizeUSD $800
5th PrizeUSD $600
Honorable MentionsUSD $200 each
The number of Honorable Mention Prizes will be determined by the Judges in their sole discretion.
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