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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.
Share your visions of the future!
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.

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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
The future is real and also poetic and utopian.
Complete cure of most diseases that threaten life today. Easy and safe transplants. Only healthy food. DNA-based personalized therapies. Some possibility of resurrection. Implementing a mechanism to prevent poverty and wars on Earth by changing the international system of money and trade. Cooperation and solidarity among people on the planet in front of the new wave of exploration of the universe. Better elaboration of the term "non-human". Love towards nature and life, small organic crops, new art groups aiming the future.
Negative or positive aspects of technological change (Aspetti negativi o positivi dell’evoluzione tecnologica)
Technology will evolve visually, but in order to avoid pollution from the electricity that is needed to make more and better devices work, each of us must contribute to the reduction of emissions so as to ensure the advancement of electronic devices by reducing pollution.
A possible world (Un mondo possibile)
I would like my future to be different from what I am living now, but I do not want to change too much. Living in an apartment in the centre of the city where I will live, work every day, so that I always have something to do with my colleagues. The world will have changed radically after having left a long pandemic and war that can be seen as the third and one of the most devastating economic ones. Together with the decline in the economy, technology will also be blocked, almost falling back and then recovering. If the world was controlled by technology in 2020 and even school classes were held thanks to computers, iPad and mobile phones, making technology almost a danger to human identity, it will have found solutions in 2040, both to slow down technological development and also to many of the problems such as climate, because even if we think it is a long-term dilemma, it will come before or later that day. In order to be able to continue living in the world, you sometimes need to return to their origins when you still used the card. The map will change because a war leads to others and peace does not bring things back as they were before.
The future for a better life and in global community (Il futuro per una vita migliore e in comunità globale)
In 2 040, I imagine that all houses have become green and sustainable, as I am not afraid to pollute in my home, igniting light, because it has solar panels on the roof that provide me with enough energy to complete all my factories. In addition, almost all the spaces where I spend most of the time will have become sustainable, the state building so many green spaces; houses and buildings will have been modified with solar panels on the roof of each one, more or less powerful; and the machines will become fully electric. Public transport has also changed, instead of the old train or bus, now who wants to take the courier, will go to a new, clean and, above all, green road transport. Cities will be cleaned, malicious buildings will be destroyed and companies of different types have been rebuilt over rubble. Many jobs will also have been developed to deal with STEAM and unemployment has become almost nothing, as new companies have emerged that export abroad, and poverty is decreasing across the globe and, even in countries that are lagging behind, social distinctions are increasingly blurring. Migration has decreased, as wars have been stopped with the alliance of the various states, in order to achieve public peace. I will work for an IT company that develops drones to transport food or clothing to the individual’s home, which has just bought online and new modes of communication have also emerged, so technology is increasingly surprising every year.
2040 positive (Un 2040 positivo)
I assume that in the coming decades scientific research, and consequently technologies, will become more advanced and new rules of our universe will be discovered. The advanced technologies that are currently only experimental will be able to help citizens from a medical health point of view. An intrinsic property of this advancement in human science is the increase in the quality of the education system. As the proposed future is set in 2040, the 2030 Agenda will have been finalised. This leads to the possibility of a decrease in global warming.
I honestly don't think that in the future our society will be totally correct and morally perfect. Such a society has never existed in all of human history, so I doubt that in the next 20 years we would be able to build it.
From a purely economic point of view, there is a possibility that in the future trade power will be more evenly distributed across the globe, as the populations of many nations are still developing. It is, however, possible that much of the economic power will still be in China's possession.
Economic development would also lead to more jobs and improved country-to-country migration conditions.
More opportunities (Più opportunità)
In my view, a better future would be a future with more job opportunities and be able to follow your dreams without any restrictions imposed by the impossibility of inventing new jobs.
It is enough to take as an example the work of influencer, who is now becoming increasingly important, is being carried out by many people who want to be heard by more people, and this was not present a long time ago, and I am therefore linked to the initial speech or that a better future would in my view be if more job opportunities were developed.
Il desiderio
In 17 years’ time, I would like the world to be a better place to turn without fear of being tried or assaulted. A place where everything is in balance, especially when it comes to climate. In 17 years’ time, I would like diesel or petrol machines to be abolished, emissions from factories reduced and nature being green to become more efficient in cities. I would like platforms to be curated so as to support impact mobility 0, and I would like all houses to have a level A or higher, so as to preserve the environment.
A future based on the past (Un futuro basato sul passato)
In 2040, in 18 I would like the world to be completely different, but I would particularly like to see machines or means of road transport being abolished forever in the future. Indeed, my future is also about the past, because I would like to live in a way in which animals are ‘used’, but to use in a positive sense, in my view the animal in general and in the world was born not only as a companion to humans but also to help them. Indeed, I would like to live in a world where machines are replaced by, for example, coaches with horses or elephants or camels depending on the place in the world in which you are located. However, this does not mean that all means of transport should be abolished, because aircraft or trains or vessels cannot be replaced by animals, including for their welfare. So in the future I would like to “use” animals, but always in their respect, to change the world: both in the climate field, because this would lead to a reduction in pollution and thus help and stop climate change and in the cultural field, because I believe that using all the means that we can have to survive, without always inventing something new, can help people to organise themselves and open up their mind-set.
The friendship of the future (L’amicizia del futuro)
For me, my future should be better than what is happening today. In my view, one aspect that should improve is friendship. Nowadays, many people are victims of joints and are also taken around and ultimately take wrong actions towards themselves and others. In my view, this could also be improved in 2040 because I hope that a new way of living in society and a new way of dealing with people in friendship will be achieved.
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