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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.

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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
Combating climate change while living a happy life
I for sure would like to have a secure job with which I am happy with. This is a very important aspect for me. Secondly, I would like to have at least two children. I would love to have a complete change in the political world, as well as a change in how climate change is being handled right now. I fear that we will all die because of climate change, but in 15 years, I just think that there will be such extreme weather that we will not be able to go outside the whole time and that we will be confined to our homes. I hope there will be no war. I hope I really will be happy with my choice for my job because Im not sure yet and I also hope that there will be such job positions in the future
Roma nel 2050: un futuro radioso
In 2050, Rome is a model city of social equity and innovation. After years of investment, public transportation is fully integrated: self-driving electric buses, ultrafast streetcars and drones-taxis ply the skies, ensuring fast and free travel for all. Thanks to economic reform, the guaranteed minimum income has reduced inequality, enabling every citizen to live with dignity. Once blighted neighborhoods now host green spaces, cutting-edge schools and cultural centers accessible to all.
Rome has been reborn, maintaining its historical soul but projecting into the future. Here, no one is left behind: progress belongs to everyone.
jezelf zijn en liefde
I wish that gender and sexual preference were no longer an issue. That children are raised gender neutral and open minded and that no one is looked at for gender or preferences. That people are equal, but that there is room for differences in being and experience. That people can live their lives with their loved one(s) and be free to express their love for others. And I would like love and tolerance to be important drivers in society. More important than profit and the right of the strongest.
Sicherheit im öffentlichen Raum
That mass migration to Germany and Europe is over, foreign criminals and social fraudsters are finally deported, Germany is safe again and knife crime is contained. Skilled labor migration is the rule, following the Australian and Canadian model, accompanied by a reduction in bureaucracy (
Vores fælles Europa
Here in 2040, we live in the land of Europe. In the time after the war in Ukraine ended, Europe was united to a higher common denominator. For the first time, it was mentioned that we could unite our continent into a single common nation. Time passed, but more and more people came up with the idea. We could gather around all the good things we have together here. The country is very similar to what the United States used to be. They have actually become several smaller independent entities following republican ideology. Our country Europe has been united into one large entity led by an EU Council. The individual countries that were now function as territories with their respective country names. In this way, we can move freely between countries as it has been intended since Schengen. NATO was disbanded by the old US, so we protect ourselves now and we as a power factor are united against the evil that sometimes emerges around the world. In Europe, we now live in cohesion across religions where all of humanity is united with us. No one is different, everyone lives on equal terms.
Europe and local
I would like to see rural and peripheral areas developed especially in Ireland. I would like to see public transport developed so we are less reliant on cars. I would like to be able to hop on a train and visit every part of the country.
I would like to see safer communities across Europe, in towns and cities. Gang crime should not be tolerated. I want to see a Europe not at the dim of outside presidents or Dictator's. Europe should be strong and independent and a force for good in the World.
Eiropas noriets
Latvia is under second occupation. At a crucial moment, the old European countries distanced themselves and refused to help, like Trump, unwilling to send their people to shed blood for small countries. The Baltic States, Finland and Poland were the scene of a protracted guerrilla war. Some of the population greeted the occupiers with joy, others were forced to flee or died in concentration camps. The remaining European countries are Russian vassal states. The USA has been divided into small states by civil war and no longer plays a major role. The citizens of the occupied countries have set up provisional governments in Britain to resist. A very plausible scenario after what is happening in the world at the moment. Europe must be united, must stop dividing itself into Eastern Europe and Western Europe to avoid this. All countries and peoples are equally important. The old countries must stop thinking only of themselves and bowing down to the aggressor.
Un mondo di pace e prosperità
I imagine a lush world where sleeping in the forest or being able to walk at night would pose no risk
A world of peace where love for one's neighbor is first and foremost a world where there is food and greenery and lots and lots of nature in abundance where no ferocious animals can harm us and we can play with wild animals without fear of anything peace and abundance in every place on earth everyone can build freedom his home wherever he wants and plant and cultivate his garden
The strengthening of European democracy and safety
In an ideal 2040 world, there would have been massive political and governmental reforms in Russia and Belarus, with the fall of their current dictatorial regimes, likely dissolution of these states into multiple independent countries and the possibility of peace in Europe without the current threat to Eastern Europe sovereignty.
My ideal future.
A peaceful future with no wars, with liberal and democratic values and leaders that can have conversations with one another without starting wars and having innocent citizens suffer.
A technologically advanced future, but without the harm of artificial intelligence.
People look after one another and care about the planet and it's wellbeing.
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