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Stories for the future of Europe

Join us in exploring the possibilities of the future! Share your future perspectives, discover other people’s visions, and engage in a dialogue on what Europe and the world may look like in the future. We collect, share and distribute your visions in our stories database.

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Your ideas matter – shape the future you want! Share your visions of tomorrow and join us in creating a narrative that inspires citizens, policymakers, and foresight experts. Together, we can co-create the future.

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Stories - find your inspiration!

Stories do shape futures. Dive into the video tutorials to explore how future narratives are born. Further below, browse trough a series of inspiring, thought-provoking stories around challenges and opportunities of our futures.

Share your visions of the future!

Share your visions of the future!

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Inside the first self-sustainable city on Mars - by ABIBOO studio
Inside the first self-sustainable city on Mars - by ABIBOO studio
Construction of the city of Nüwa could start in 2054 and will see 250,000 people live inside the rock of a steep cliff. Freeze my body, melt me in 80 years, and send me to Mars. Architecture studio ABIBOO has revealed its plans to create the first self-sustainable city on the Red Planet, which is set to be ready for residents in 2100. The city will be called Nüwa and will be located at Tempe Mensa on one of the Martian cliffs. Its position inside a rock on the steep cliff will protect its residents from radiation and meteorites (cool!) while still giving them
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#OurFutures stories by EU citizens
be strong and powerfull
be strong and powerfull
i want to be a businessman like my father the future changed by me in my family live in germany
Hope (Hope)
Hope (Hope)
I would like a future where people are treated more fairly and with more respect for their rights and autonomy. There are already many efforts underway to address issues of exploitation and discrimination, including work to promote women's rights and economic independence. However, it is important to recognize that achieving these goals will likely require ongoing effort and vigilance. It may also involve addressing systemic issues and cultural attitudes that contribute to these problems. Creating a better future will require the collective efforts of individuals, organizations, and governments working together to promote fairness, justice, and equality for all people.
You can promise me a future.
You can promise me a future.
Dear educators, I have been thinking. I don't think we should be trained into money making and obeying people Instead I think I should make homes for the insects I see hiding in the bushes I think I should make a warm bath for my guardian I think I should not be as afraid of dancing with the one I love I think I should dare to pick a berry from a bush and eat it. Let me not forget about the ruthless beauty of our existence Teach me how to love it How to survive Curriculum creator, let us utilize our classrooms in the most healthy way possible to let us slowly breath in and breathe out into a new, sustainable, generation where both mine and Sarah’s, and Noa’s, and Mischa and Mohammed’s and Aisha’s belly can be full So that we can play And progress. Exist Curriculum creator, let us merge all documented knowledge to meet our basic needs in the most effective way possible let me tell you what I need and then maybe we could create a space within which we can survive and thrive. Let me care And then perhaps You can promise me a future. this is a poem i have made about a potential future
Humanitas (Humanitas)
Humanitas (Humanitas)
Sincerely, the idea of a better future or the hope that it improves seems to me to be utopia. Of course, we need to tell us that " andr à everything well " T to be able to close the eyes at night and dream. Dreams are important, perhaps perch é they play a leading role in the life that we would like to see. The bullet point what to do? it means being sold or finish and thus becoming complicit. Personally, I cannot close my eyes in the face of so much chaos and global crisis. Everywhere I look at the consequences of humanitarian crisis, environmental disaster, pollution, global warming, poverty. extreme... I find it hard to imagine a better future. What I can say è u that to have hope we need to reintroduce an ancient concept that tends to be taken for granted, and I è Humanitas.
Freedom for happy life
Freedom for happy life
I will talk about freedom. I think freedom is one of the most important values in our lifes. Many people nowdays reduce their freedom for the sake of their parents , friends, partners and more. Also people they are not free because of the internet for example instagram , facebook. Furthermore, they are feeling that losing their freedom for no reason , beacuse they dont believe and trust themselves. This is a real story , because I was feeling like losing my freedom too. And the problem was me. I was afraid to express my self in front of people or I was comparing my self with other threw social media. The solution was simple. Believe in your self and do your best. That was crucial for me and changed my whole life. So my opinion is , we need to have free classes in groups or personal , so people can express their feelings and strenght their mental health. As a result will be more free and more happy as well.
Lavorare per vivere
Lavorare per vivere
In a better future I envision a more equitable and balanced work-life relationship that respects everyone's individuality and allows for free self-expression
The moment may change your day.  Today may change your life.  Your life may change the world
The moment may change your day. Today may change your life. Your life may change the world
Conditions change with the change of times, or things are renewed by updating the capabilities and means, according to my aspiration in the coming years in the education and teaching journey. Students learn thanks to teaching tools that adapt to their abilities. In other words, students will have tasks that are a little more difficult than the level they are used to. Also, students who have had difficulties in a subject, for example, will get the chance for more practice until they reach the required level. Students will be positively reinforced throughout the individual learning process, as a result they will have positive learning experiences, and the amount of students losing confidence in their academic abilities will be reduced. On the other hand, teachers will have a clear view of which students need help and in what area.
Sharing and open mind
Sharing and open mind
Many ways of sharing experiences. Less repressive justice and more commitment to education.
focused on give opportunities to the people who deserve it
focused on give opportunities to the people who deserve it
I would like to see a future where everyone cares about each others and the enviroment. It's what it matters the most
Technological development of the whole world
Technological development of the whole world
That the world is increasing in technology and the provision of public transportation, and the government is supportive of its people, and there must be social justice for every member of the family and society
eco-friendly in equal parts.
eco-friendly in equal parts.
In 2040 I hope for a greener future, fewer cars on the road, purified seawater for different uses and thus better cleanliness in the seas. Stop/decrease exponentially the ozone hole. Opportunity for all nationalities to live fully, and not by gender and birthright.
NEW GAME NEW DAY (NEW GAME NEW DAY )
NEW GAME NEW DAY (NEW GAME NEW DAY )
Each country should continue its country with its own citizens, not accept refugees, not accept white-collar, because white-collars are high, but ordinary refugees keep the country back. Technology, more advanced education, more advanced flying cars, very smart medical devices, learning about everything in education. The country's economy rises and the citizens of the country become conscious and no one will destroy that country.
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