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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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Take a look at the #ourfutures dashboard for some numbers
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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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Get inspiration from the Storiesfrom2050 project
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
Play the videos to learn how future narratives are born and how they can be rewritten
Play the videos to learn how to use the OurFutures dashboard for analysis or workshops
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#OurFutures stories by EU citizens
Gpolujanskaite000@gmail.com
It's been 2040 and I still remember 2025.
A year of turmoil over the war in Ukraine, price rises, anger. Anger in most people's hearts. I wouldn't have thought that 2040 would be a completely different year. We will have freedom for love, freedom for culture and stronger education for children at school on everyday issues. We have become happier, more understanding and less public anger. Our world became more beautiful, and so little was needed, just love.
Svijetla budućnost bez evropske unije
Kakvu budućnost vidim,sigurno bez evropske unije,umjetne inteligencije,bez svjetskog ekonomskog foruma,bez ratova,bez zaprašivanja iz aviona,bez manipulacije klimom i vremenom,bez crva i kukaca za hranu,bez svjetske zdravstvene organizacije,bez nametnutih migracija i za kraj bez ovako glupe rečenice budućnost pripada svima nama,bez fašizma i terora od poremećene elite...spisak je dug.
Safety in EU
In the future European union will be a very beautiful and very safe space. We will have peace in the world and everything will be perfect. There will be a lot and really a lot of policeman everywhere there will be so very nice to everyone. There will be no conflict no fight especially no war will be very nice and safe. Space to live we will be friends with everybody. Nobody will try to hurt us. you could go for a walk in the middle of the night and feel safe. The streets will be brightly and there would be no feeling of being scared no fear not anything You’re perfect be perfect that’s it so I wish that European Union in 2040 will be very safe. this is my story goodbye.
Tadakaalus eluharjumused
Mental health issues are becoming more and more topical. In the future, already since kindergarten children, we have raised awareness of how to live a more fulfilling life by shaping our habits-sleep, nutrition, movement are balanced and ensure vitality and longevity, and there are skills on how to help yourself on mental health issues and notice the concerns of others.
didierraulet3@gmail.com
A peaceful world where everyone takes part in the collective success of France, where everyone can live comfortably and receives the merits of his efforts. A found justice or the deserving are those who provide the most commitment in society, and less taxed to maintain the laziness of those who participate in nothing.
lijepsi svijet
in 2040 we have an underground railway that will solve the problem of crowds in the city of Zagreb. we will also have underground garages and more libraries and educational programs so that our students have a comfortable learning environment. we will fight corruption and everyone will have the same opportunity to progress. we will move towards more respect for art as such. we will improve public health institutions so that everyone has access to medicine and medicine, not that we have to turn to private clinics that cannot all afford.
Science takes over
It's 2040, and I'm walking through the streets of Kortrijk. The air is cleaner than I could have ever imagined when I was a child. Above me float transparent solar panels that are integrated into the architecture, almost invisible but responsible for generating 80% of the electricity in the city.
The scientific revolution has also transformed our health. CRISPR-Cas13 technology has led to gene therapies that can treat previously incurable diseases. The average life expectancy has risen to 95 years, while maintaining quality of life.
Distopia
A world without borders free from war and hunger with a multi-ethnic society where every individual is respected without any distinction between ethnicity, skin color and religion. A green society no more pollution where nature has resumed its spaces a true participatory democracy where everyone can freely express their ideas
Tempo per la famiglia
It's 2040. Today parents work only half a day, when their children are at school, and spend the rest of the day with them. They have finally acquired the right to form a family and to live it in balance with their work. Their children will enjoy the time that their parents were not allowed because of a wrong development pattern that has finally been erased.
mariacw25@gmail.com
hello we just started 2044 year we were playing at the ball now from 2 January I have to go to work I have a super electric car I get on and I only say I go to school I drive the children I set the route and then we go to work I will be there by 12 o'clock later I will order food that deliver robots preparing delicious dishes I have to remotely improve the temperature at home because it is cold I set 22 degrees sun strongly heats the collectors and heat pump work so it will be warm at home.I will program the robot with recipes to be ready when we get home, oh still the robot has to dust off the floor and today we are planning a holiday, I have 3 weeks free so the flying vehicle we will fly to Japan it's only 3 hours flight.
Antti.n.roine@gmail.com
In 2040, Russia broke up into smaller states and China became a democracy. Prior to this, Russia has been at war, which has led to increased readiness and small border thorns also near the Finnish border. The World War could be avoided.
Europe has been able to lighten the regulation that suppresses innovation, and the benefits of the common market have brought new prosperity to the whole region.
Space tourism is still a utopia, but we dream of it. Artificial intelligence has reduced the need for labour, just like computers or the internet used to. The pain in society is that the top performers do well, but the less capable have fewer and fewer job opportunities and become passive. However, for political reasons, basic income has not been reached and there is a lot of this in the newspapers.
Immigration has decreased and demographic trends have stabilised. The famine in Africa raises concerns and climate change puts pressure on population movements. The threat of war in the South is obvious.
In the midst of the threats, I feel that already towards the end of my career I am financially safe thanks to entrepreneurship and hard work, and my children are doing well in a changed world. The future does not seem unproblematic, but disasters have, as before, been avoided.
Mugavus
Life is comfortable - children have reached upper secondary school age and live at home only on weekends. Quietly independent. It is good to look at the children's independence and remember the kma youth rush. Life has moved away from social media. Real communication is once again important because online life tends to remain in the background. Direct communication is valued and technology plays a routine role in our lives, doing data analytics and most of the ‘excel-based work’ for us. The creative part is our end to do
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