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Sahéliens, Sahéliennes 2040
Sahélien.ne.s 2040 is a program of the French Development Agency. From November 2020 to June 2021, this learning journey gave a voice to 25 young Sahelian changemakers to tell their Sahel differently
Kidding the Futures
This article reviews two projects facilitated by futurist Umar Sheraz in Pakistani schools, aimed at empowering students with futures thinking skills. Using tools like the Futures Triangle, SDGs, and
Future Images of youth on food system
A 2021 research project invited Finnish high school students to imagine "food and eating in Finland in 2050" through essays. The study analyzed 123 submissions to identify youths' future images of foo
Pedagogias del Manana
Pedagogías del Mañana is a program directed towards schools and teachers in Spain, whose goal is to "foster eco-social education" through artistic creation. Several classes, from 5th to 11th grade, in
Our future pledge
Our Future Pledge: An agenda for futures by youth is a toolkit and global campaign created by the first cohort of "UNICEF Youth Foresight Fellows" from across the globe, gathered by UNICEF Innocenti.
Net Zero & You(th)
Net Zero and You(th) is a Canadian initiative by Apathy is Boring (2023–2025) that empowers youth (18–30) to engage with climate issues through storytelling, dialogue, and civic reflection. Organized
Feeling Futures Through the Stuff We Wear
In her PhD project, Aniela Fidler Wieruszewska researches how young people experience change, feel and deal with the climate emergency through things we wear. Fashion, climate and futures: How do they
Enter Nusantara
Enter Nusantara is a youth-led Indonesian initiative (since 2020) focused on climate justice and a coal-free future. It empowers youth (ages 17–29) through solar energy projects, anti-coal advocacy, a
WTFutures' Agora #1 : Climate futures and Education
The online Agoras are an opportunity for practitioners to share knowledge and insights, and for all who are interested to discover and exchange with amazing initiatives from all over the world. The fi
Générations F
Générations F is a collaborative theatrical project in France where young people (10-18) co-create and embody a future generation from 200 years in the future, living in a world shaped by climate chan
Museum of the not yet possible
The Museum of the Not-Yet-Possible is a project developed from a Futures Studies course at Tamkang University, led by Dr. Nur Anisah Abdullah. Over two semesters in 2021 and 2022, students used variou
Message Towards the Region
Message Towards the Region is a youth engagement project in the Nitra Region of Slovakia, involving 167 students aged 13–17. Led by Youthwatch, the initiative uses futures literacy methods, like world
Climate Future Brussels
BrusselAvenir is a Brussels-based collective that "stages futures", creating shared spaces where people can collectively imagine desirable futures for the city. With Climate Futures Brussels 2030, the
Climate work Lab
City Hive, a Vancouver-based nonprofit, has spent the last seven years working to bridge the gap between young people and decision-makers in climate and urban policy spaces. In 2023, they launched the
Defi Resilience
In 2022 and 2023, the CAUE de Paris organized two hackathon-style events, "Climathon" and "Défi Résilience," engaging students aged 18-25 to develop concrete proposals for Paris's climate and resilien
Butterfly 2050
As part of France's "France 2030" strategic plan, the "Butterfly 2050" project invited young people aged 16-25 to envision a desirable future for France. Through a series of workshops and masterclasse
A fearless mural for COP27
Fearless Foundation is a feminist and decolonial non-profit organization developing participative art workshops with marginalized communities in the global south. Working in cooperation with the parti
Imagining Climate Just Futures
Imagining Climate-Just Futures is a European project developing and supporting a wide range of activities giving space to citizens to reflect on climate futures. The ambition of this initiative is to
LCOY
As part of the preparations for the COP (Conference of Parties on climate change), young people committed to climate causes are organizing Local Conferences of Youth in dozens of countries around the
Futures and climate change with primary school pupils in southern Togo
For his PhD project in educational science, Serge Yemey worked with children in elementary classes from three schools in Togo's coastal zone, a region deeply impacted by rising sea levels. The aim of
Puerto Rico 2054
The project was launched by Maria de Mater O'Neill, a professor of design at the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan. In 2017, while she was teaching a class in Fajardo, Hurricane Maria hit. The day
Centre for Reworlding
Based in Australia, the Centre for Reworlding is a collective of Indigenous, people of colour, settler and LGBTIQA2S+ artists, scientists, thinkers and doers with a track record of collaboratively wor
Campus de l'engagement
ENJEU's (ENvironnement JEUnesse) Campus de l'engagement is an action-training program in environmental engagement targeting young adults aged 18 to 30 in Quebec, Canada. Running since 2023, the progra
Emerging Horizons
This report summarizes the insights of a foresight workshop held in 2023 with 100 young innovators from all over the world. Using the "Three Horizons" approach (business as usual, visions of a desirab
Aubervilliers 2124
After experiencing the difficulty of feeding its mostly poor population, Aubervilliers, a city just North of Paris, supported a student workshop imagining how it could prepare for its population in th
Making Futures with European Youngsters
Between 2022 and 2024, "The Future is Now" experimented with methods to "Equip young people and the youth sector with futures literacy (tools, methods and practice) that allows them to imagine alterna
El futuro es clima
Initiated by the Spanish think tank Demos Lab, El futuro es clima organized a dialogue between a "Metaforum" made up of 40 randomly chosen young people, and an "Advisory council" made up of experts. T
La crise dont vous êtes le héros
In the context of a vast participatory discussion on how to collectively build the city of tomorrow, Nantes experimented with a game with 16-30 year-olds called "The Crisis in Which You Are the Hero".
Sustyvibes / TEAP
TEAP is an offshoot of Sustyvibes, born from the realization that the majority of Nigerian youths were experiencing some form of eco-anxiety: facing the very real consequences of climate change, knowi
Kijiji Cha Amani
Kijiji Cha Amani is a grassroots initiative in eastern DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo) that combines peacebuilding, environmental justice, and community dialogue. Using creative tools like "parachu
Youth Climate Lab
Youth Climate Lab (YCL) is a Canadian-based, globally active organization dedicated to empowering youth as agents of systemic climate action. Founded in 2017, YCL builds pathways for young people to e
Museo Del Futuro
As part of the Museo del Futuro (Museum of the Future) project, over 100 young people from Tláhuac and Iztapalapa collaborated to build a Time Machine, a mobile museum made of 14 sculptural "cells", tYouth Future under construction
This article introduces a "supplementary issue" of the Journal of the British Academy, which summarizes the findings of the Youth Futures project. The project explored how young people in countries liImagining Futures / Future Imaginings
Imagining Futures / Future Imaginings is a collaborative memory and futures project that placed young Ugandans at the center of heritage work. Through art, conversation, and co-curated exhibitions, yo
Urbanité numérique en jeu
Launched in 2020 in Seine-Saint-Denis, France, this project empowers young people through digital urban tools by involving them in collaborative modeling of their schoolyards, neighborhoods, and city
Exploring School Scenarios in Melbourne
A research team in Melbourne conducted a "futures education" program with 12 to 14-year-old students to explore the future of schools in 2050-2070. Through scenario-building workshops, students envisi
Banking on youth
In a 2020 online workshop for Youth for Asia (YfA), 17 young people from across the Asia-Pacific and Europe collaboratively explored the futures of Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) for the year 2
Bagmati River Youth Project
The Bagmati River in Nepal has been the central subject of a six-week futuring program, enabling 19 online and in-person youth-led activities. These activities were organised with 26 local community g
Narrative of change in science education
Starting with a writing exercise sent to students from Norway, Italy, Germany and Austria, the research team of this project conducted a linguistic analysis of the images of the future of young people
Théâtre des négotiations
The Theater of Negotiations is the name given to an experiment that took place in 2015 in Nanterre, in the western suburbs of Paris. 200 international students were reunited for three days and one nig
ÉcoMotion
The non-profit organization Éco-Motion's mission is to equip and support youth who drive social change, in order to preserve their energy and impact over the long term. Its projects are based on a for
JustFutures
This large research project studied youth climate organizations and their discourse in Portugal, in order to understand the different ways young people envision and think about their place in the ongo
Parque Explora: Laboratorios Creativos
Organized by Parque Explora, Medellín's science museum, the Laboratorios Creativos (Creative Labs) intend to engage socially vulnerable publics with participative methods mixing science and art, worki
Imagining 2060
77 surveys were administered to a cross-cultural panel of students at Tamkang University (Taiwan) to investigate their current images of the environment and desired narratives of the future. By writinClimate Futures in Mali
In 2023, "UNICEF Youth Foresight Fellow" Mamadou Doucouré gathered 15 young Malians in Mopti to imagine their future in the context of climate change. The workshop demonstrated the importance of futur
Going Green, by Eduponics
Initiated by Eduponics, a South-African social enterprise, Going Green intends to integrate aquaponics into the educational system, to several ends: as a hands-on way of teaching STEM subjects as well
Voices of tomorrow
Voices of Tomorrow is "a global initiative amplifying young people's creative visions for the future through art". Having received hundreds of submissions from 15 countries, it has curated a virtual e
Imagining the Future for Transformation
"Imagining the Future for Transformation" is a 10-week masters course where students become part of a fictional movement, "Creative Collectives for Utopia". During the course, they learn to uncover th
Young voices for fairer future
In 2024, several organizations launched a call asking 5-18 year-olds throughout the world to answer one question: "Imagine you are in charge - What is ONE thing you would do right now to create a bett
Citadins, Citadines 2050
Citadins, Citadines 2050 is an experiment in "creative foresight" which took place in 2024, in three urban areas of France, based on the following intention: "Mobilize art and fiction to explore how u
Crafting Change through Natural Dye-making
This doctoral research project investigates how youth climate activists act as caretakers of the planet, their communities, and themselves, through the lens of feminist care ethics. In collaboration w
Emerging Breakthroughs on Climate Change
"What does the future of climate action look like? More importantly, how do young people - who will inherit both the challenges and solutions of today's climate decisions - envision this future?" Twel
Youth Talks
Youthtalks is a global project whose intent was to consult young people (15-29 years old) on their aspirations, their concerns, and what they need to build a sustainable future. Using a combination ofNot About Us Without Us
This paper, written by twenty-three young people from fifteen countries, provides a first-hand account of their deepest feelings about the climate crisis, how these feelings affect their daily lives,Destination Beauvais 2040
This two-years process was designed to build upon a collective memory of the Covid crisis in order to imagine the future of the city of Beauvais in 2040. It organized 10 futures workshops with various
Climate action Photovoice
Using Photovoice, a participatory research action methodology based on photography, CREDA organises workshops in different settings to enable people to express their concerns linked to climate change,