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World Futures Day 2026: Call for Facilitators now open - The Millennium Project

Join us and be part of this global dialogue on March 1, 2026.

Learn more and register here: www.millennium-project.org/world-future...

#WorldFuturesDay #FutureThinking #GlobalDialogue #SharedFutures #ShapingTheFuture

World Futures Day, initiated by the @millennium-project.org, is built as an open and participatory process. Participants and facilitators are encouraged to invite others, share their networks, and help create spaces where many voices can be heard.

Your perspective matters.

Conversations will move across time zones, creating a continuous exchange of ideas, questions, and perspectives.

WORLD FUTURES DAY 2026

On March 1, we (the Future Impacts Team and the German Node of the Millennium Project) will celebrate World Futures Day with a 24-hour global conversation on possible futures—open, online, and free for everyone.

Paper: „Anticipating AGI. The Future of Work / Tech 2050 Scenarios – Revisited Through an AGI Lens“. | Future Impacts Ever since the release of GenAI technologies, a global debate has erupted in recent years about the dangers of artificial intelligence. Not only the critical public, but also the big tech industry its...

The takeaway: without proactive global governance, AGI could deepen inequalities and escalate risks far beyond today’s generative AI. With the right structures, though, AGI could help shape more equitable, resilient futures.

📘 Read Moritz’s paper here: future-impacts.de/paper-publis...

The study highlighted a set of different drivers shaping long-term change.
 
@moritzvon.bsky.social from our team revisited with Jerome C. Glenn these questions through the lens of the MP’s newest research on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and summarised his findings in a paper.

NEW PAPER PUBLISHED: „ANTICIPATING AGI. THE FUTURE OF WORK / TECH 2050 SCENARIOS – REVISITED THROUGH AN AGI LENS”
 
In 2020, the @millennium-project.org outlined 3 scenarios for how AI could transform the world of work.

Kreislaufwirtschafts-Strategien der EU und Deutschlands im Vergleich Klimawandel, geopolitische Spannungen, zunehmende Rohstoffknappheit und fragile Lieferketten stellen Wirtschaft und Politik vor große Herausforderungen. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird die Kreislaufwirtsc...

📘 Read the full study here: www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/de/publikati...
 
#CircularEconomy #SustainableTransformation #FutureEconomy #PolicyInnovation #EUPolicy

The study identifies four strategic priorities for advancing circular economy policy:
 
🧭 Policy coordination
🏗️ Reliable frameworks
🚀 Lead markets & scaling
⚖️ Social justice
 
This study contributes to the debate on how to future-proof Europe’s economy—and turn transformation into opportunity.

CIRCULAR ECONOMY AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES: NEW STUDY PUBLISHED
 
A new circular economy study by the @bertelsmannst.bsky.social in cooperation with Future Impacts, has just been published. It compares political strategies for the circular economy at the EU and German levels.

The interview is currently behind a paywall. If this changes, we will keep you updated.

#FutureOfWork #foresight #WorkTransformation #StrategicForesight #FuturesThinking #AIAndWork

Den Horizont der vorstellbaren Zukünfte öffnen Blicken wir in die Zukunft, sehen wir eine zunehmende Veränderung der Arbeitswelt durch Digitalisierung, Robotik und KI. Doch bedeutet das auch

A valuable read for anyone interested in thinking about the future of work beyond simple narratives of risk or disruption.

📘 Read the full interview here: www.skills-magazin.de/berufliche-b...

OPENING THE HORIZON OF IMAGINABLE FUTURES OF WORK

The December 2025 issue of Skills Magazin, a German magazine about vocational education, features an interview with Cornelia from our team. The interview explores the futures of work and the transformations that will shape tomorrow’s working world.

Sironic’s novel blends climate fiction with coming-of-age and media critique, asking what it means to build a future when the concept of future has already begun to disintegrate.

#ClimateFiction #DystopianNovel #NearFutureFiction #EcoDystopia #BooksAndClimate

At the center is Era, a girl who still writes on paper. Her mother researches influencer culture, while her aunt has spent her life resisting the very systems that consume the planet. Maja and Merle blow up abandoned objects. They are schoolmates of Era—and daughters of well-known momfluencers.

Am Samstag gehen die Mädchen in den Wald und jagen Sachen in die Luft by Fiona Sironic

This book is a dystopian novel about growing up at the end of the world and imagines a planet on the brink of ecological collapse. Climate change has turned everyday life into survival, children have become rare.

#StrategicForesight #FuturesThinking #ClimateAction #EUPolicy #EuropeanUnion #ClimateForesight #ClimatePolicy #FutureOfEurope #SystemsThinking #EnergyTransition #GreenDeal

Climate Action in the EU of 2035: Enlargement Perspectives | Future Impacts In late-2023, the EU adopted a new enlargement package, establishing the goal and real prospect of new countries joining the European Union within the next decade. But what might this mean for the EU’...

for climate action through 2035. Our new report presents these topics, featuring four alternative scenarios, key messages and priority areas of action.

📘 Read the full report on our website: future-impacts.de/portfolio/cl...

NEW REPORT: CLIMATE ACTION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION OF 2035 🌍

Over the last year, the European Climate Foundation and Future Impacts hosted a series of forward-looking conversations with over 240 experts from across Europe. These discussions explored the future of EU enlargement and its implications

Futures and foresight activities within the EU Agencies Network on Scientific Advice (EU-ANSA) - Publications Office of the EU This report explores the foresight work carried out by the members of the EU Agencies Network for Scientific Advice (EU-ANSA) Futures Cluster between 2019 and 2024 – a period marked by heightene...

Interested in how EU agencies are building more future-ready governance—and how foresight capacity has evolved across the system? Read the paper here: op.europa.eu/en/publicati...

#StrategicForesight #FutureThinking #FutureReady

Thank you to EU-ANSA for the thanks in the acknowledgements - we were glad to be able to contribute to the drafting of this report and the design and analysis of the mapping exercise that it is based upon.

MAPPING FORESIGHT ACROSS THE EU-ANSA

The EU Agencies Network for Scientific Advice (EU-ANSA) Futures Cluster published a paper on the evolution of foresight across the Network of EU agencies, a period marked by geopolitical tensions, COVID-19, political volatility, and technological advances in AI.

Jess highlighted two key takeaways:
 
🤝 Engage diverse voices to enrich perspectives and strengthen foresight outcomes.
 
💬 Share insights and interim results to foster transparency and collective learning.
 
#FutureThinking #StrategicForesight #PolicyInnovation #ForesightCommunity

SHAPING FUTURE-ORIENTED POLICYMAKING THROUGH FORESIGHT
 
Jess recently joined the 5th Mutual Learning Event of the Eye of Europe project in Chișinău. The event brought together foresight experts and R&I policymakers to exchange ideas on how foresight can help shape more future-oriented policymaking

Mandel’s version of the future isn’t loud or dystopian—it feels calm, a bit melancholic, and very human. Life on the moon mirrors life on Earth, with the same questions about connection, meaning, and what makes something real.
 
#SpeculativeFiction #TimeTravelBooks #FutureFiction #ReadingInspiration

SEA OF TRANQUILITY BY EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL

‘Sea of Tranquility’ by Emily St. John Mandel spans roughly five centuries. The story begins in 1912 and reaches all the way to the year 2401, moving from early-twentieth-century Canada to future moon colonies and quiet experiments in time travel.

At Future Impacts, he brings his analytical mindset to his roles as a foresight researcher, consultant, and project manager.

Welcome to the team, Moritz!

#foresight #FuturesThinking #StrategicForesight #FutureStudies #ResearchAndConsulting #ChangeMakers

👋 WELCOME TO THE TEAM, MORITZ VON STETTEN!

@moritzvon.bsky.social studied in Heidelberg and Manchester before earning his Ph.D. in Cologne. He has conducted research at international collaborative research centers and taught at several universities.

🌍 Between 15-17 Oct, @internationalidea.bsky.social & BIRN Albania hosted “The Future of Democracy in the Western Balkans” foresight workshop in Albania, marking our renewed focus on the region. We explored possible scenarios for #democracy through 2040 and the key factors that may shape its future.

💡 Why it matters
• Builds resilience in times of uncertainty.
• Encourages long-term thinking.
• Helps decision-makers imagine alternatives and make better choices today.

#foresight #FuturesThinking #FutureStudies #FuturesLiteracy #ShapingTheFuture #FutureReady