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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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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
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
2040
2040
In 2040 environmental conditions should be better to respect the environment. Animals should exist in large protected parks. Also the quality of life should be better for all and life expectancy should have gone up.
As intermitências do digital
As intermitências do digital
It's a summer's day and Europe is more advanced than ever. Cars look nothing like the cars of just a few years ago. They drive themselves, on autopilot! The boundaries between the real and the digital are very blurred and artificial intelligence has taken over everyday life throughout Europe. Robots are in almost every home and can have a conversation with humans, which is mitigating the feeling of loneliness that, ironically, is very much a result of mass digitization.
Betonski ljudi
Betonski ljudi
Godina je 2040., zelenilo je postalo mit. Vidjeti stablo je kao osvojiti na lutriji. Neku kažu da će ovim tempom stabla postati samo mit. Kao da ne znaju da bez njih nema ni nas. Okružuje nas beton sa svih strana, od pločnika po kojem hodamo do kuća u kojima živimo. Izgradnja je uzela maha, svaka zelene površina postala je betonski blok. Samo gradi, prodaj, zaradi. Ni dječiji parkovi više nisu od prirodnih materijala, samo platika,metal i apsorbirajuća guma. Postali smo betonski ljudi.
Utilizar as bases do passado para um futuro melhor
Utilizar as bases do passado para um futuro melhor
I'd like to see more individual houses with a small plot of land each, where they could have the option of a vegetable garden. I think it's essential to go back a bit to the past, but with the evolution of today, with solar energy for example. An organized and adequate health system for everyone. Waiting times for appointments and closed services are shameful. More aid for small businesses.
Бъдещото
Бъдещото
Human health and life extension.Developing new technologies and drugs and therapies to combat currently untreatable diseases. Development of vaccines for serious diseases.Affordable and disease-free healthcare in all locations of the world no matter gender age religion.
AI 2040
AI 2040
From 2025 to the present day, AI has slowly and gradually entered the lives of everyone on the planet Earth. Increasingly displacing the role of man and seizing his functions. This has led to some positive phenomena such as the disappearance of corruption in the administrative area, but also to negative ones such as rising unemployment. It is becoming increasingly difficult to find jobs for people who are out of work because of AI.
Проблемите на 21 век
Проблемите на 21 век
I want it to be cleaner, groceries to stop going up in price, people to be less stressed and everything to be nicer. It should be like in Dubai. ... you make a mistake jail... you live by the law everything be nice
Ευημερία
Ευημερία
I imagine that the future in 2040 will ideally be a future of prosperity. We have been through wars and pandemics, we have lived through disasters and we are starting the period of starting from scratch again. We have learned from the mistakes of our past and we start with Peace, unity, solidarity and love. Without fighting, shouting, killing and an uncertain future for future generations.
Για ένα καλύτερο αύριο
Για ένα καλύτερο αύριο
I would like us to be able to move within the European Union with ease, without borders, without commitments and to feel the security that our country provides us. Like living in our country, but with different people, culture and especially new fresh ideas and images, from the beauty of each country.
Egalitate
Egalitate
Europa de mâine
Europa de mâine
Europe will still have a number of operational and strategic difficulties due to Russia's attempts to impose and exert its influence in the region. However, the defining principles of democracy and freedom of choice will manage to remain at the forefront by diminishing the effects of fake news, falsifying reality and will largely succeed in combating extremism. The new generations will be harder to manipulate, they will easily realize the false and harmful intentions of far-right and far-left organizations. Europe will also have good strategic relations with the US and other democratic states outside Europe. In addition, decision-makers in Europe will be able to successfully meet a large part of the 2030 agenda targets.
Fejlődés
Fejlődés
Health care is of high quality in the public sector and you don't have to wait long for surgeries and examinations. Mondern, well-equipped and clean environment. The education system is also at a high level. Well-equipped schools and many qualified professionals. More attention to nature, lots of green areas in cities.
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