NGFP-Young Voices Awards 2026 Announcement
NGFP - Young Voices Awards 2026
We are delighted to announce the young voices of tomorrow. Celebrating Global Innovation this year’s edition saw unprecedented engagement from young visionaries worldwide, tackling the most pressing challenges of our time.
Young Voices Top Winners
Global Awards First Place
Carta Europa empowers citizens across Europe through interactive mapping, AI-driven event analysis, and civic tracking tools, making complex governance accessible while inspiring active community engagement.
MENA Region First Place
The Urban Body uses citizen sensors, GIS, and satellite data to produce youth-generated urban health reports for UAE communities, transforming microclimate data into actionable interventions.
Celebrating a diverse cohort of innovators from across the globe, including special recognition for groundbreaking projects emerging from the MENA region, demonstrating the universal drive for progress and sustainability.
What These Young People Are Building
Across Kazakhstan, India, Greece, and beyond youth are leading bold solutions to the challenges facing their communities and our planet. Their work spans AI-driven plastic tracking and environmental forecasting, neuro inclusive support, interactive civic mapping, electricity free water filters, urban food security, and upcycled STEM education. Others are building youth climate classrooms, women's micro investing initiatives, student health advocacy, and science club incubators.
Young changemakers across Egypt, the UAE, and Palestine are leading transformative solutions tailored to the region’s unique climate, healthcare, and resource challenges. From citizen sensor urban microclimate tracking, zero waste offline eldercare monitors, and AI optimized gene expression to smart soil energy water farming, affordable marine based nutrition, and gamified community action, these MENA leaders are combining high tech innovation with grassroots resilience to shape sustainable futures.
"These young leaders see community challenges as opportunities to imagine new possibilities, showing that futures thinking isn’t just anticipating what may happen, but recognizing our capacity to influence what happens next."
— Randi A. Millard, M.Ed., MOD Executive Director, at Teach the Future®️.
Young Voices join FutureWISE Institute
Aspiring to prepare students to navigate uncertainty and shape their preferred futures. Teach the Future has open enrollment for the FutureWISE Institute a classroom ready curriculum that equips middle and secondary school students with the competencies and skills needed to understand change and take meaningful action in their communities.
With Gratitude we thank our NGFP - YV Judges
Our Partners
This award is supported by the School of International Futures (SOIF) and the NGFP Network, together exists to accelerate the transformative potentials of the next generation of change-makers and future-alert activists using foresight as a key tool to envision inclusive and equitable futures globally. Learn more about the NGFP Fellowship here: https://nextgenforesight.org/fellowship/
In partnership with the Dubai Future Foundation (DFF), the NGFP-YV MENA region empowers young change-makers across Middle East North Africa region to use future thinking for shaping the future. DFF’s support elevates youth perspectives on a global stage, connecting top young finalists to transformative networking and learning opportunities at Dubai Future Week. Learn more here: https://www.teachthefuture.org/mena-region-2026
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