06 / Get involved
Follow a confirmed program opportunity, offer rigorous guidance, explore an institutional partnership or start a conversation about the conditions young innovators need.
01 / Ways to take part
Each route has a different responsibility. XTF explains the relevant terms before asking anyone to commit time, share work or provide personal information.
Applications are accepted only through published program calls. Every call will include eligibility, selection, dates, commitments and terms.
No public application call is currently open. This site does not collect applicant or minor data.
Ask about program updates ↗XTF welcomes interest from people able to offer rigorous, constructive guidance in research, engineering, design, entrepreneurship, policy, education or responsible technology.
Specific roles, screening, time expectations and safeguarding requirements are stated before any matching or program commitment.
Express interest ↗Institutions, laboratories, universities, companies and public-interest organizations can explore responsible collaboration through relevant expertise, access, facilities or program development.
A conversation does not imply an announced partnership. Roles, responsibilities and public attribution are agreed before work begins.
Discuss a partnership ↗People interested in supporting XTF can begin a conversation about time, access, expertise and serious review for young innovators.
No donation, charitable or tax claim is made until an appropriate mechanism and its legal disclosures are confirmed.
Contact XTF ↗Current practical routes / Two enquiries
These are enquiry routes, not application forms or automatic commitments. Do not send sensitive data, confidential technical material or information about minors by email.
No public competition application is currently open. An enquiry can request updates; the eventual program page will govern eligibility, dates, materials and terms.
Competition update enquirySTF organises monthly project roadshows and may assess suitable projects for investment. Initial contact should identify the project and the question to discuss, without implying that funding is available or approved.
Support and investment enquiryInvestment form, amount, rights and terms exist only after due diligence, approval and definitive documents. This route is not an offer, solicitation or return promise.
Stage one / Project submission
This reviewed email route is open for initial project intake. It is not a competition application, acceptance, award, endorsement or investment decision.
Project name; problem and intended users; current stage; evidence or prototype so far; team and roles; route sought; public links.
Do not attach confidential plans, unpublished intellectual property, identity documents, financial credentials, health data or information about minors.
After review, XTF may decline, request clarification or identify a separate program, roadshow or support conversation. Any next step is confirmed in writing with its own terms.
Stage one / Student project interest
Student expressions of interest are open for the six active Summer showcase projects. A message is not a placement: the project owner must confirm a real role, supervision, schedule, selection and protection requirements.
Identify the project, the question you want to help with, relevant skills and what you hope to learn.
Do not send identity documents, precise location, school records, health data or confidential work in an initial email.
Scope, supervision, time, conduct, data, intellectual property, credit and exit arrangements must be agreed first.
Age, local requirements, guardian consent where needed and approved communication arrangements apply before participation.
02 / What happens first
The first step is to understand the route, the people involved and the information needed to decide whether a next step is appropriate.
03 / Before you participate
XTF will not ask people to commit time, share sensitive information or transfer work without first explaining the program, responsibilities and relevant data terms.
Use only a published application route connected to an active program.
Programs must state appropriate privacy, consent, contact and safeguarding arrangements.
Screening, scope, time expectations and conduct requirements are stated before matching.
Roles, brand use, access, public attribution and responsibilities should be agreed in writing.
Intellectual-property, publication and data terms should be understood before material is shared.
No donation or tax claim is made until an appropriate mechanism is confirmed.
04 / Constructive guidance
Good mentoring does not replace the participant’s judgment or turn every question into the mentor’s preferred answer.
Ask what the participant is trying to learn before prescribing a solution.
Focus critique on assumptions, evidence, risks and the next useful test.
Be clear about expertise, availability, conflicts and what guidance cannot establish.
Do not take ownership of participant ideas, work or decisions.
Follow the program’s conduct and safeguarding process instead of improvising privately.
Help the participant decide what to investigate, document or ask next.
A useful partnership begins with a shared purpose and a precise role.
Start with the problem or program need, the expertise or access being considered and the people who would be affected. Then clarify responsibility, decision-making, conflicts, confidentiality, data, participant protection, intellectual property, brand use and what may be said publicly.
XTF publishes an institutional relationship only after the relevant parties, role and permission to announce it are confirmed.
05 / Get involved FAQ
Current status and participation terms should never depend on an old poster or an unverified third-party message.
No public call is currently listed. An active opportunity will have its own program page with eligibility, dates, process and terms.
Yes, through the initial project-submission route. This is a non-confidential brief for routing, not a program application. A live program call will publish its own official process.
Yes. Email hello@xtf.org with your relevant experience and the kind of guidance you are interested in offering. This does not create a confirmed role.
Yes. Email partners@xtf.org with the purpose, proposed role and relevant context. A proposal is reviewed before any relationship is announced.
No donation mechanism or tax status is represented on this website. Relevant information will be published only if an appropriate mechanism is confirmed.
Write to press@xtf.org and include the subject, publication or organization and the information being requested.
Not sure which route fits?
Write to hello@xtf.org with your name, organization if relevant, the route you are interested in and a short description of the question or support you want to discuss.
Media and editorial enquiries: press@xtf.org
Institutional partnerships: partners@xtf.org
