Entering the NGFP Young Voices Award

The NGFP Young Voices Awards is organised by School of International Futures Ltd, in partnership with Teach the Future (TTF).

To enter the NGFP Young Voices Awards please follow the instructions online at apply.nextgenforesight.org

By entering the NGFP Young Voices Awards, the entrant will be deemed to have read and understood the terms and conditions and be bound by both terms and conditions.

The deadline for all entries is 23:59 GMT-10:00 on Sunday 30th June 2024. Entries received after this deadline may not be processed.

(ii) Entrants also known as applicants

Qualifying entrants must be between 12 and 17 years old on 31st May 2024.

Qualifying entrants can only make one entry to the NGFP Young Voices Awards, either individually or as part of a group of individuals. Groups can be up to 5 individuals. Responsibility for sharing any financial or other benefits will remain the responsibility of the lead applicant.

Entries may not be submitted by a third party.

Upon written request, or through the application platform, entries may be withdrawn by the entrant prior to 23:59 GMT-10:00 on Sunday 30th June 2024.

(iii) General

By submitting an entry, you confirm that: you are entitled to enter and have obtained all and any consents, permissions and authorisations that may be required in order for you to enter; the information contained in the submission is accurate and truthful.

Submissions must be the works of the entrant, must not be copied, must not contain any third-party materials and/or content that you do not have permission to use and must not otherwise be obscene, defamatory or in breach of any applicable legislation or regulations. If we have reason to believe your entry is not your own work or otherwise breaches this paragraph, then we may decide not to consider it.

No fee is required to enter the NGFP Young Voices Awards.

All category entries must be submitted in English and submitted electronically with supporting documents (if applicable) using the online Application Form. Any entry received by any other means including via email, fax, post or hand delivered will not be accepted unless prior permission has been agreed. Entries received in other languages will be returned and asked for translation in English written or with subtitles.

Neither SOIF & TTF nor the NGFP judges accept responsibility or liability for any lost, late, mislaid or incomplete entries with all such entries deemed invalid. For the purpose of doubt, proof of dispatch shall not be accepted as proof of entry.

SOIF & TTF reserves the right to not process entries that are illegible or incomplete or those that do not meet the entry criteria.

Entrants may, at SOIF & TTF discretion, be disqualified and not considered due to ethical or moral considerations.

SOIF & TTF reserves the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Fellowship or any feature thereof with or without prior notice due to reasons outside its control (including, without limitation, in the case of anticipated, suspected, or actual fraud).

SOIF & TTF accepts no responsibility for any damage, loss, liabilities, injury or disappointment incurred or suffered by you as a result of entering the Award. Nothing in these terms and conditions shall exclude the liability of SOIF under law for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for death or personal injury resulting from its negligence.

SOIF & TTF shall not be liable for any failure to comply with its obligations relating to the awards or where the failure is caused by something outside its reasonable control. Such circumstances shall include, but not be limited to, weather conditions, fire, flood, hurricane, strike, industrial dispute, war, hostilities, political unrest, riots, civil commotion, inevitable accidents, supervening legislation or any other circumstances amounting to force majeure.

The Young Voices Awards and these terms and conditions shall be governed by English law and entrants submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.

(iv) Judging and Selection

SOIF & TTF, their advisors and the NGFP Judging Panel will produce a shortlist of entrants for the NGFP Young Voices Award.

Young Voices entries must take account of any word limits specified in the Judging Criteria. Any Fellowship entry that exceeds a stated word limit may, at SOIF & TTF 's discretion, be disqualified and not considered.

Judging will take place through a random allocation. Each application will be judged by a series of judges.

The judging process will be undertaken by the NGFP Judges Network community and members of SOIF & TTF.

To make their judgements, each judge will independently rank the shortlisted nominees, marking each entry against how it meets the judging criteria (the "Judging Criteria").

Top rated applicant will win first place, followed by three runner up awards and six recognized awards (ten awards total).

(v) Criteria

Judging will be conducted based on the information provided in the application form. Entrants are required to complete all steps of the application.

Eligibility for the Young Voices Awards will be determined at the discretion of SOIF & TTF based on submitted information and judges' scoring.

For the Young Voices, eligible entrants will be judged based on the questions asked in the application:

Write a short essay (maximum 400 words) on how a current project or an intended project will consider the well-being of others and the future of the planet. Submissions can be in native language but please include an English translation.
Create and submit a short video (maximum 2m 30s) about what they would want to do with the Young Voices prize. The video is a pitch addressed to their community persuading them that this project or idea is good or even necessary and giving them reasons for supporting or joining it. Video can be in your native language but please include English subtitles. Please create new and original video and do not upload a news clipping or old video.
Indicate which of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) their idea would contribute to.

(vi) Copyright

The named entrant of each submission owns the copyright to that entry. If another person or organisation is the author of your entry, you warrant that you have received an assignment of all associated copyright to your entry from that person. SOIF & TTF may ask to see evidence of that assignment at any time.

In consideration of SOIF & TTF agreeing to consider your entry for the Young Voices Award, each entrant: (a) grants SOIF & TTF a royalty-free licence to copy, edit, display, publish, broadcast and make available their entry in any format in connection with the Young Voices; (b) agrees that SOIF & TTF may publish their name in connection with SOIF & TTF's use of the entry; (c) warrants that the work submitted with their entry is their own or the relevant organisation's original work, that it is not defamatory and that it does not infringe any third-party rights; (d) and agrees that SOIF & TTF may grant to its partners and/or associated companies a sub-licence of the rights licensed to SOIF & TTF under these terms and conditions on such terms as SOIF & TTF shall agree in its sole discretion.

To support efforts to showcase entrants, their submissions and insights from the award, entrants may be asked to participate in publication and promotional activity on SOIF & TTF’s reasonable request. All forms of replication will have entrant names clearly associated with the content.

Winners of the Young Voices Awards consent to the use by SOIF & TTF and its related companies, both before and after the closing date of the Awards for an unlimited time, of their voice, image, photograph and name for publicity purposes (in any medium, including still photographs and films, and on the internet, including any websites hosted by SOIF & TTF and its related companies) and in advertising, marketing or promotional material without additional compensation or prior notice. In submitting an entry or consenting to a nomination, all entrants consent to the same.