Eligibility
Age, geography, stage, individual or team requirements.
03 / XTF programs
Room to test. Support to continue.
XTF programs help young innovators define a stronger question, examine their assumptions, develop the work and decide what should happen next.
01 / Common program method
One standard. Different routes.
Every program should make the work more legible: what is being investigated, how it is tested, what changed and what the next responsible step is.
01Frame
02Investigate
03Make
04Review
05Document
06Continue
02 / Flagship pathway
XTF Incubation.
Designed for early work that has a meaningful question but still needs research, testing, critique or technical development.
Question to evidence. Evidence to prototype.
Each confirmed cycle will publish its focus, format, selection criteria and support package before applications open.
No public XTF Incubation application cycle is currently listed on this website. New opportunities will be published on the Get Involved page.
See opportunities ↗03 / Program transparency
Know what you are applying for.
Every active program page must state who it is for, what support is included, what participation requires, how selection works and what happens to intellectual property and participant data.
Dates & duration
Application, review, participation and completion dates.
Support included
Mentorship, facilities, technical resources or financial support—only when confirmed.
Selection
Criteria, process, decision roles and conflicts handling.
Rights & data
Intellectual property, publication, privacy and safeguarding.
Open or archived
A single, unambiguous application state for every program.
04 / A program of XTF
The challenge is a door, not the destination.
The XTF Global Innovation Challenge is a focused, time-bound program within the Foundation. It is one way to discover questions, people and projects that may continue beyond a single cycle.
Program / Global Innovation Challenge
Show the method.
Read the current institutional description and access the program archive without making the competition the centre of XTF.
View the program ↗Current status
Cycle details under review.
Dates, eligibility, awards and participation terms will be published only after they have been confirmed.
No application is being accepted here