Start
2 Dec 2025 @ 9:00:am
Finish
2 Dec 2025 @ 6:00:pm
Location
UNESCO Headquarters, Paris
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Event Details
Foresight in Focus: UNESCO Hosts World Futures Day 2025!
Anticipation in an era of volatility is the crucial theme for World Futures Day 2025, convening on 2 December 2025 at UNESCO's Headquarters in Paris.
As global challenges, from tech disruption to the climate emergency, accelerate, this event will be a critical hub for exploring how governments and societies can effectively use futures thinking and foresight to navigate instability and shape resilient policies.
The day will move beyond theory, specifically illustrating the practical application of anticipatory methods in policy development. It will bring together leading interdisciplinary experts, including the network of university-based UNESCO Chairs in Futures Studies, to collectively identify and map emerging issues that will define our shared future.
This is an opportunity to connect and contribute to a forward-looking dialogue.
Celebrating World Futures Day Session - Outcomes of UNESCO Futures Literacy Lab on Learning for Planetary Citizenship and Anticipatory Governance.
Steven Hartman, Executive Director of BRIDGES, will be joined by Nsah Mala from the BRIDGES University of Cologne Hub, for a session at World Futures Day 2025, along with Maria Angelica Mejia, and students, from Learning Planet Institute (LPI), to present the outcomes of our Futures Lab on anticipatory governance co-organized earlier this year. Download the Report Reworlding Planetary Governance: Youth Contributions to the Implementation of the UN Declaration of Future Generations.
This event is held in-person. Register here.
For more information, contact futures@unesco.org
Visit the UNESCO page for this event here.
