School of International Futures (SOIF) is awarding $25,000 incubator funding as top prize for its Joseph Jaworski Next Generation Foresight Practitioners Award.

SOIF is recognising and supporting the next generation’s endeavours to shape the future and work to drive innovation in foresight internationally. This award understands that foresight practice includes 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 better understand how different futures might evolve, and to generate insights for decisions made today.

Making an award application is a simple process. In 1000 words write down the story of one of your past projects and make a 2 minute video about what foresight work you would spend the $25k on, this can simply be you speaking to your webcam or phone camera.

If you are under 35 or you have less than 10 years of experience in strategic foresight, and are studying or professionally working in the field, then you are eligible to apply. Applications are open until 1st July 2018.

SOIF is especially keen to welcome participation from the global south and to recognise the excellent foresight work across Africa, Asia and Latin America, including supporting the Sustainable Development Goals. However, this prize is very much open to all, worldwide.

The Award will support practitioners both personally and professionally and will help create a global sensing-network of future-alert activists. It will provide a platform to showcase innovative practice from around the world.

The winner will not only receive incubator funding to develop a new foresight initiative, but also free attendance at the SOIF2018 Summer retreat as well as mentoring support to develop professionally. A number of geographic and sectoral special awards will also be made.

If you’d like to apply, get involved as a partner or can help share the word then SOIF would love to hear from you. Please email award website.

There’s still time to organise activities for Global Climate Change Week 2017 (Oct 9-15). Here are a few suggestions, with links to some examples universities organised for GCCWeek in 2015 and 2016.

• Panel discussions on one or another aspect of climate change (like this one at North Western University (South Africa), this one at the University of Zanjan (Iran), and this one at the University of California Berkeley (USA))
• Divestment events (like this one at the University of New South Wales (Australia), and this one at the University of East Anglia (UK)) (for information about divestment see 350.org)
• Meetings with local groups fighting climate change like this event at Willamette University (USA)
• Movie showings (such as The Age of Consequences, Chasing Ice, Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Sequel, and many more)

For more ideas for activities see the links given here and here to GCCWeek activities in 2015 and 2016, and our How to organize Global Climate Change Week at your university guide.

So please spread the word, follow GCCWeek on twitter (hashtag #GCCW17), and register for GCCWeek (you can register your interesthere and register activities here).

Best of luck from the GCCWeek team!

Global Climate Change Week (http://globalclimatechangeweek.com/) aims to encourage academic communities – including academics, students, and professional staff at universities – in all disciplines and countries to engage with each other, their communities, and policy makers on climate change action and solutions.

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