NGFP Young Voices Awards 2025

The Next Generation Foresight Practitioner - Young Voices (NGFP-YV) Awards aims to showcase the voices of our youth 12-17 years of age. The first-place winner receives a USD $1000 prize to help realize their future-focused project and catapult their idea into action. Three runner-ups receive a USD $500 prize. Six top finalists are being recognized for their ideas and effort included as part of the top 10. Seventeen projects will be highlighted as representing one of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.

The 2025 NGFP Young Voices Awards showcases impressive diversity and global representation of youth projects. The applicants range in age from 12 to 17 years old, with the youngest winners being four remarkable 12-13 year olds from Uganda, Canada, Nigeria, and Peru. Participants come from 13 different countries across 5 continents, reflecting a global perspective. Countries represented include India, Nigeria, United States, Peru, Uganda, Singapore, Brazil, United Arab Emirates, Zimbabwe, Japan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Ecuador, and Canada.

The Young Voices Awards feature individual and team projects addressing global issues across diverse contexts. All 17 SDGs are represented, with notable focus on SDG 4 (Quality Education), SDG 8 (Decent Work), SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities), SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption), and SDG 13 (Climate Action).

Key themes include:

Education & Equity: Projects like Amanecer Book (Peru) and Tech4Equity (India) democratize access to opportunities for underserved students through innovative resource-sharing and digital inclusion.

Environmental Innovation: Youth transform waste into resources from Nigeria's solar powered devices made from trash to Uganda's smokeless charcoal briquettes from agricultural waste.

Health & Wellbeing: Initiatives address critical gaps, including Janam's mobile birthing clinics in rural India and NeuroLearn's AI platform for children with autism.

Social Justice: Common Ground (India) and Humanity Over Hate (USA) tackle division through peacebuilding education and intercommunity storytelling.

Indigenous Knowledge: Projects like Project Bawari (India) and ImpactoBIO (Brazil) honor traditional wisdom while solving modern challenges in water management and sustainable sanitation.

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