What Does the Foundation Do?
The Foundation for Future Generations supports and funds research, prototypes and start-ups with a positive impact.
it empowers young people to take action by supporting their solutions for a fairer, more liveable and more sustainable world.
- The Foundation rewards students and researchers for their final-year projects and research that contribute to the transition towards a more sustainable society through the HERA Awards, Future Proef Award and Sakura.
- The Foundation funds projects developed by student entrepreneurs, supporting the prototyping of solutions with a positive societal impact through the Prototyping the Future programme.
- The Foundation provides financial support to founders of start-ups and sustainable initiatives in the early stages of their development, notably through the SE'nSE, Shinju, Low Carbon Solutions and AETHER Liveable Planet programmes.
Positive ideas for tomorrow...
Our HERA Awards, Future Proef Award, and Sakura for Future Generations programs recognize theses, dissertations, or projects.
Rewarding master's theses and PhD theses that imagine solutions for tomorrow
Positive projects for tomorrow ...
Our Prototyping the Future programmes fund impact projects from their very earliest stage - ideas, prototypes and promising concepts. A unique approach to developing products, services or technologies with a positive societal impact.
It funds environmental and social solutions at the prototyping stage.
Startups Making a Positive Impact for Tomorrow
Our SE'nSE, Shinju, Low Carbon Solutions and Aether for Future Generations programmes directly support young start-ups and organisations that place social and environmental impact at the heart of their mission, acting as their first investor by providing loans.
It supports young start-ups with a strong positive environmental impact.