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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
Življenje leta 2000.
I want us to live in peace, no wars. I want children to grow up without tick-tocks and other social networks. I want those responsible for the current situation regarding finances and everything bad in Slovenia to finally be fairly held to account by the competent authorities. I want every family to have a fresh piece of bread on the table every day, and not for some to live day in, day out, despite working 12 hours a day.
Gesamtheit
A future EUROPE as I would like it to be is an absolute utopia. Unlimited freedom for all. Especially freedom of movement. Democracy for all. A small arsenal of weapons. The Europe would have to live up to the name EUROPA. It is not just freedom to travel. It is not just democracy in all countries. Envy must be a foreign word. The traditions of each country must be preserved and a European government should be completely superfluous. Such a government is already superfluous. The standards that are for the good of all should be introduced everywhere and become mandatory. Animal welfare, treatment of animals during transportation, traffic rules, one currency. Salaries according to performance. Mutual unconditional support in the event of disasters. And there are limits to everything. Such borders, I mean national borders, it must be possible to close and open them so that these borders serve the good of the individual state. Similar educational opportunities for all. Freedom of research and exchange of results. It is all so hypothetical that it is actually unnecessary to react to such tasks here. That is why I have now written enough about it
Utopie?
I'd like the future to be more relaxing than the present day, for us to live more in harmony with nature, for people to be less materialistic, more equal. That teleportation would be the major mode of transport, with no pollution and no wasted time. I'd also like to see culture and reflection take precedence over possession, conquest and power. A more peaceful society.
Zukunftshorror
It's very difficult for me. I'm 65 now, then 80, and I'll probably have to live in a home because of my disability. I'll be looked after, fed, washed and played with by robots. My children will live in other cities and visit me in self-driving cars. We will mainly eat a meatless diet of insects, worms, larvae, etc. There will be small nuclear reactors everywhere. Houses will be built underground because of the heat or cold. There will still be wars because of raw materials
Communication
I stay connected with my headset, I don't have to use my fingers for the mobile anymore, I just say if I want to call, if I want to send an e-mail, everything is done by voice. In my future, there will be more and more video calls, so that family ties don't become disconnected. We'll have cars that we can drive just by voice, which will be able to detect road signs and brake or stop on their own.
Matkustelu
I think the future would be better if people stopped bickering and invented things like protecting the environment and nature, and developing technology. It would be great if people could move from one place to another with little or no emissions. Some kind of fast ship on water, under water or on rails to get from one place to another as quickly as possible. I read an article that mentioned a plan for a train between New York and London that would go through a tunnel at the bottom of the ocean. At the moment that construction would certainly not be very environmentally friendly, but possibly in twenty years time it would be different. You could stop flying altogether. Electric cars could also be developed so that it would not take so much water to mine cobalt. And that they wouldn't explode on their own.
How i imagine it
In my future i see women having more rights, i see abortion being legal in all countries in EU. I see there’s no descrimination regarding genders. I see more women on high positions on jobs, i se equality of both genders. I wosh for there to be peace and no (or less) war.
I also see people going to school, every child have a chance to go to school and get the education they want, i see more opportunities for young (and old) people to go to college and other higher schools.
Futuro verde
I would like the future to be greener, more focused on ecology, attention to climate change and respect for nature. I would like policies toward this path to be incentivized and penalties to be toughened for those who do not respect the environment in which they live, perhaps even with community service to socially recoup the damage created
Teknologi
I get woken up by my robot, it helps to get the day started. Then there's a machine that reminds you to do something nice for yourself and drives you to work, so you can just enjoy the time and the calm instead of stressing yourself with traffic. Work has become easier with a lot of aids and the profit when you get home from work has increased
Die digitale und Autome Zukunft
The wars of 2022-2025 have fortunately come to an end and the economic stability of all countries affected has increased again. We are feeling the effects of digitalization and artificial intelligence everywhere. Proper medical treatment is only available in urgent cases, everything else is carried out via webcam, food deliveries are no longer delivered by people but by drones. A cab ride is autonomous without a driver. Everything is paid for with a digital currency - there is very little cash left, as cash deposits and withdrawals incur a very high fee at the bank.
Il futuro è green
It would be greener. We all understood the importance of polluting less to stop climate change, so we all (public, private and business) implemented actions to improve livability on planet earth: stop land consumption, reforestation, no more oil and coal, use of bio fuels, use of electricity from renewable energy sources.
Ungewiß wo es hingeht.
Once upon a time, people didn't know which way was up. Everyone hoped that everyone would get along with everyone else and treat each other peacefully. But to achieve this, everyone should put something aside and seek a balance. Will we still be able to do this ourselves or will our digital assistants already be doing it for us? It will be particularly difficult for older people who are afraid of dealing with these things. Even the freaks don't know for sure whether they still have control over the assistants. Let's hope they are well-disposed towards us and that the majority of people treat each other in the same way. In principle, it will be similar to now, except that the digital assistants will be even more advanced. Which can be an advantage but also a disadvantage. That is why it is important that we are always aware of what we are dealing with and how. It has never hurt to be friendly and polite. If you compare the little helpers to pets and you take good care of them, the Digis will hopefully see no reason to treat us badly, just like animals show affection. Unless there are evil spirits behind it programmed by humans to exploit this weakness. Positive thinking can help.
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