IN 2040 I imagine Greece to be a country with more green policies when it comes to energy, architecture and production. I would like to see decentralisation of living, with more infrastructure shifted from urban areas to country side, creating smaller pockets of green cities, accessible to and for people with diverse needs and background. Athens is no longer the point of reference, nor where half the population of the country lives. Education in primary and secondary levels is more openminded, incorportated modern concepts of social justice and inclusion, technology and european identity. The main focus of governance should be placing people in its centre, offering functional solutions for quality living. Cost of living at the moment is unberable. Young people in their 20s, and 30s at the moment have not the ability to start family, bear the cost of living alone or create savings. As such, creating incentives and sustaibale living alternatives in countryside, with provision for quality living, would feed back to these issues.

In my experience , when you are in an educational setting - like school for me - over time one loses the desire and drive to gain new skills and knowledge. The school I attended was in Austria in a very rural place. They tried to up date their curriculum by including a scientific branch. Although the aim , I guess , was to appear modern, the other classes where lacking modern themes or where very depended on the class teacher if you have a good experience with the topic. In my future school I like to see more involvement from the students what each individually wants to learn and how to learn it. Then they have arrange themselves in groups with overlapping interests. At the end of a semester they give a presentation or share their acquired knowledge with the class. This way the students learn to form and work in teams early on. By them choosing the topics themselves, the frustration level will be lower. By sharing it with the rest of the class The teacher changes his/her/their role from a mere lecturer to more of a counsellor when problems arise or the pupils get stuck. He/She could also provide topics if the students are unsure what to work on.

Everyone should be. For example, children or young people would not be afraid to go to school because of bullying. Bullying would be addressed as soon as it happened. Everyone should have access to assistance if needed. No one would be fun for any reason. Everyone would be involved and no one would be left behind.

I would like 2040 to be a time where we live more in harmony with nature. We find some longterm solutions to energy problems and w’re RID of our dependence on oil. The rest of society I would like to remain pretty much the same. Thero’s lot of things you can change, but maybe that’s not always something that needs to be done. Let’s keep our planet livable as long as we can, for as many of us, as harmonious as possible.