Call for Applications: for The Middle East & North Africa (MENA) Fellowship, Apply Now

If you’re interested in becoming an NGFP Fellow, please submit your application by 23:59 GMT+1 on July 31, 2025.

For the second time in 2025, we’re reserving space for emerging practitioners to join the Fellowship from the Middle East & North Africa region, in partnership with Dubai Future Foundation.

A valued partner of NGFP, the Dubai Future Foundation lends its support to elevate the voices of young and emerging foresight practitioners from the region.

This includes the countries of Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.

The Fellowship offers next generation of future and foresight practitioners with:

A global peer network
A project partner (usually an expert foresight practitioner)
A USD 1,000 kick-starter fund and opportunity to win a USD 10,000 prize
Opportunity to be part of regional or thematic hubs
Access to relevant events, projects and our bi-weekly sector news and opportunities email
Foresight capability building via our introductory training course

We seek individual and team applicants who are:

Applying where the project impact is based in the MENA region
Applicants with nationality from the MENA region
18–35 or older with less than 1 year of foresight experience
Passionate about systems-level change and long-term impact
Committed to learning, collaboration, community, and network-building
Working on challenges related to: Climate & Just Transitions, Democracy & Sustainable Development, Emerging Technologies, Futures Methods From Around the World & Indigenous Futures, Intergenerational Fairness, Nuclear Security, and Peacebuilding.

For more details, refer here