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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
Kreatívna, jednoduchá, cestovanie, zážitky, rodina
I would like us to be mindful of global warming and to respect nature, to invest money in planting new forests and to keep it in good condition despite the development of technology. I hope that these will be used for our benefit and not overdone. I want my children to grow up in a peaceful society, to have a good education and to be able to live a simple life.
Futuro Verde
It's March 2040. As I'm not working today, I'm going to take the opportunity to tend to my vegetable garden. As it hasn't rained for two days, I'm going to take the opportunity to water it with the water stored in the rainwater collector. This collector is distributed free of charge to people who have backyards so that they can use rainwater to water small areas. I check the energy production of the community solar panels that I have installed. The use of panels in energy communities is now common and allows this resource to be shared in small communities (villages or neighbourhoods), greatly optimizing energy consumption and considerably reducing bills. After tending the garden, I go shopping in my electric car. Unlike the first electric vehicles, considerable autonomy is now possible, even on long journeys, with the inclusion of solar panels on the vehicle itself.
Contrary to what you might think, there are still many employees in supermarkets, as technology has come to help people, not replace them.
Before returning home, I take the opportunity to pick up my grandchildren from the kindergarten, where they spent the day playing and enjoying nature.
I take the opportunity to do my own and the children's laundry. As the detergents used are organic and environmentally friendly, the water from the washing is also recovered and can be used, for example, to wash the floors.
As my son and daughter-in-law come to pick up the children, I take the opportunity to prepare dinner for everyone. We all work, but as I'm older, I now have reduced working hours that allow me to help with my grandchildren's education. My son and daughter-in-law can also request reduced working hours if they need to look after me when I'm not working or am ill.
When a caregiver is needed, we can also use community resources. Fewer and fewer people are institutionalized, and there is a "pool" of caregivers who are available for home care, collaborating with families.
The future can be uncomplicated when technology and legislation are used for the benefit of people and communities.
Лошо за всички
I envision a future with borders where money, services, products, even the world around us have no value. All that matters are people and the relationship between them. The world will become a better place, without envy, without fear, without material gains. Just people and nature. Clichéd - isn't it. It is unlikely that this will ever happen. Hardly people who have become so greedy will overcome their sense of ownership, to acquire and to dominate... Too bad...in 20 years if we haven't destroyed ourselves we will be on the brink of an ecological catastrophe where nature will avenge itself for what we are doing now. And then we'll just hope to survive...
Европа 2040
2040.Europe is borderless.All countries are in the European Union.You can travel and work everywhere.Peace and prosperity are everywhere.The old continent is the leading continent in the world.All countries in the world are partners.Russia is also part of the EU.There are no wars and military conflicts.All countries are friendly.There is the necessary respect and the sovereignty of each country is respected.Being European is a pride and joy.There are all opportunities to get to know the culture and lifestyle of different nations.
1 dan zaposlene mame
I would like to start the day with a healthy smoothie and a short meditation. There is no more stress about going to school. She teaches her children from home. While the children are online, I bring a healthy bag for that time. They are all grown in their own garden - without unnecessary pesticides! The afternoon is reserved for a short time with the visitors on the garden. Afterwards, I will anoint the child's eye. And it's time to play in our beautiful big garden... plenty of voca, bobica and cvijeća... For this time, while the children are enjoying their activities, I promise a well-paid laptop session.I choose my own session. It doesn't take me a lot of time, but I do what I want... I design in Canva. I enjoy working on new projects, but I am not absent from my child! Dinner, evening hygiene....You have a little witness and play with your child at bedtime.Onda is the time for me,for some annoying sleeping treatment...I read a few more pages of my softened book and go to bed. It's a lot less stressful when I have a nap.I have enough money for my child.Maybe we can have a short trip this summer. I am happy and grateful!
La nuova era di una Terra Green con la fusione nucleare
My best future of 2040 is the abatement of local and global environmental pollution that is bringing catastrophic events to many parts of the planet.
In my opinion this will happen with alternative energy sources such as the expansion of wind distributed on offshore wind farms, the improved exploitation of underwater turbines with tidal motion and the improvement of nuclear fusion power plant processes. This energy will bring a new green mobility with vehicles that will use rechargeable batteries with energy cartridges that will not release C02 and other waste gases harmful to humans, animals and vegetation
When logic came back
Logic came back to put maniacs in their place and idiotic ideologies in the bin. Permanent immigration is now illegal and society finally understood that immigration is invasion and the destruction of cultures, ethnicities and order. People stopped spewing "woke" and far leftist narratives and the governements became so minimal that freedom flourished. People actually started learining something with history and communist and socialist parties became illegal. The global warming nonsense is no longer the parasite it was then. Misandric women started being legally punished for their hateful comments and behavior. Porn sites became illegal and people became more polite and respectful; character and integrity became the norm. Corruption and serious crimes became extremely rare. The EU seized to exist. Now, instead of having the soviet-like union, Europe became united with its countries working in sync with one another to prosper. Society found its way back to God without extremes. Logic came back
Η Ευρώπη όπως θα έπρεπε να ειναι
The future I would like for the citizens of Greece and Greece itself in Europe is very different from what it seems to be.
I envision a Europe that is strong and independent of third countries where peace and prosperity will prevail for all citizens of the member states including the Greeks.
I hope for a more united Europe where Europe is independent and all countries are on the same level.
Where the infrastructure will serve the citizens, where the health systems of each country will share knowledge, where each country will offer in the sector that is best products and services for the common benefit of Europeans.
A Europe that has a sound legal framework and condemns injustice.
A Europe that will preserve the culture and language of each country.
A Europe that promotes the diversity of the culture, customs and traditions of each Member State.
A Europe that will have borders not between member countries but with all other countries, with limits and awareness of human rights, but also protecting the citizens of member countries and not returning the unauthorised flow of migrants.
I envision a Europe that will be an example for all other countries to follow!!!
емисиите
I envision a world where renewable energy sources not only dominate, but are readily available to every population on the globe, regardless of socioeconomic status. Solar panels and wind turbines are now deployed everywhere, and new energy storage technologies allow even remote and poor regions to benefit from them. Cities are green and smart, with the ability to optimise energy consumption and zero carbon emissions.
I would also like to see sustainable agriculture that not only reduces damage to the environment, but also ensures food security for all. Technologies such as vertical farming and synthetic biology have already been scaled up and allow the production of food that does not harm ecosystems.
Да живеемсвободно
The European Union has broken up and the countries have returned to their identity, rather than transposing European directives. Communities are free, but they are also connected. Nature has rebelled with the help of humans. Technology is being unlearned, but robots are replacing them in hard labour, not in drudgery
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