Futures imagined by Greek citizens
The Future of Europe seen by EU citizens
What do you want the future to look like? In which future would you like to live? These are questions of high relevance for policy were at the heart of the Conference on the Future of Europe that ended in May 2022. This EU initiative has created a new space for debate with citizens on how to respond to the European Union’s challenges and to create the Union that its citizens collectively want for the future.
However, beyond the formulation of many individual wishes for the future, we must structure these conversations to build coherent, comprehensive and desirable alternative futures that are achievable. The #OurFutures - Stories for the future of Europe initiative addresses this long-term need beyond the end of the Conference on the Future of Europe. It offers a simple questionnaire through an interactive multilingual platform able to cater to the 24 official languages of the European Union. It aims at collecting a large number of very short stories that express what participants would like to see in the Europe of the future.
To ensure success, the project relies on a robust methodology (powered by SenseMaker©) to exploit, in a foresight perspective, the rich material provided by participants. To avoid any bias, the analysis bases itself strictly on what the authors themselves tell by answering a few simple questions. The stories, also translated into English, are published on the Futures4Europe.eu platform.
#OurFutures is an open-ended project that will remain active for many years to collect as much material as possible. The insights that they provide will serve to generate concrete, future-oriented recommendations for EU action to build together the European Union that its citizens want.
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. The reason these results presented in this report are not compared to an average EU picture is that the number of stories available for the rest of the EU is still too low to be meaningful.
BOL Erica;
BONTOUX Laurent;
CHRISTOPHILOPOULOS Epaminondas;
2024-09-06
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC136878
978-92-68-16495-2 (online),
1831-9424 (online),
EUR 31950 EN,
OP KJ-NA-31-950-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC136878,
10.2760/777429 (online),
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