Futures Stories

The future can evolve in different directions, each shaped by our actions of today. In order to capture the ideas about the future the European Commission’s Competence Centre on Foresight has launched the project  #OurFutures - Stories for the future of Europe.

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Reports

Resilience. The future of Europe as seen by EU citizens

This report presents an analysis on the topic of resilience of the stories selected from the #OurFutures initiative. These stories — envisioning life in 2040 — provide unique insights into how people across the EU perceive Europe's capacity to remain resilient amid multiple transformative challenges. This thematic analysis supports the European Commission’s 2025 Strategic Foresight Report on resilience. It therefore focuses on stories that explicitly reference the role and position of Europe, its institutions, and its collective future.

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Emergent patterns - the future of Europe seen by EU citizens

The results of the #OurFutures stories can be analysed per country, per age group, per policy domain or other classifications. The analyses can also correlate several parameters to check whether certain values or preferences occur in specific combinations. This report gives an overview of who are the people so far who shared their stories, main themes, feelings associated in these stories, sources of influence, and likely hood and capacity to makes the stories happen.

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Futures imagined by Greek citizens

The objective of this report is to show the potential of the tool. While coming from a very small sample of Greek citizens, these first analyses are very promising. They demonstrate that the insights that they provide can serve to generate concrete, future-oriented recommendations for EU action. 

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