A series of strategic dialogues and consultations with youth and various stakeholder groups from around the world have been co-organized by the UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Coalition in the period leading up to the Summit of the Future in New York (September 2024).
Two of these events took place at Learning Planet Institute in Paris, and were co-organized with UNESCO’s Futures Literacy and Foresight team, the secretariat of the Management of Social Transformations (MOST) programme and the School of International Futures (19 June and 6 September).
A third pre-SOTF consultation with international youth leaders was co-organized by BRIDGES, Globethics and the Club of Rome during the Global Ethics Forum on 3 September 2024.
Additional consultations following through on the Summit of the Future are planned in late 2024 and early 2025 following the UN Summit, and these will be co-organized together with various partner organizations in the BRIDGES-led consortium hosting a high-level side event, ‘From Idea to Action and Impact: mobilizing the outcomes of the Summit of the Future’, during the SOTF Action Days in New York.
Intended to foreground voices and perspectives of many actors who could not join the Summit of the Future in person, this series of consultations will serve as the basis of a policy report and recommendations framework anticipated to be delivered to the Intergovernmental Council of MOST in 2025.
Reports and outcome documents from the consultations organized during 2024-2025 are collected on this page.
We welcome all to take a look at the Outcome Report on this event, ‘From Idea to Action and Impact: Mobilising the outcomes of the Summit of the Future’, which took place on 21 September 2024, during the Summit of the Future Action Days.
A pre-Summit of the Future Youth Consultation Workshop was held on September 6, 2024, at the Learning Planet Institute in Paris, co-hosted and co-organized by UNESCO’s Futures Literacy and Foresight team, the Management of Social Transformations secretariat, the UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Coalition, and the School of International Futures.
The Global Ethics Forum Roundtable Consultation, held on September 2, 2024, was a closed-door roundtable with 18 participants designed for intergenerational dialogue centered on youth participation in global decision-making processes.
We invite you to read the Outcome Report of the ‘Learning for Planetary Citizenship and Anticipatory Governance’ UNESCO Futures Literacy Lab: Reworlding Planetary Governance: YOUTH CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE UN DECLARATION ON FUTURE GENERATIONS. The goal was not to predict what may come next, but to practice different ways of seeing, sensing, conceptualizing, and shaping what might be possible by imagining and developing plausible scenarios for the future. What if the very act of learning could be planetary? What if a university could be a place not only of knowledge, but of responsibility, reciprocity, and regeneration? And what if governance made space for those who have never been allowed to speak—rivers, trees, future generations, and the systemically unheard?
We welcome all to watch the recording of the BRIDGES special session, ‘Learning for Social Transformations, building on the Summit of the Future’, at the 7th International Conference on Future Education, 11 December 2024.
The UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Coalition was proud to come together with Globethics and The Club of Rome for a youth consultation during the Global Ethics Forum in Geneva, 2-4 September 2024, in the lead up to the Summit of the Future and our side event From Idea to Action and Impact: mobilizing the outcomes of the Summit of the Future (Side Event, Action Day 2, Summit of the Future) | UN Web TV
Author: Nsah Mala. In the past nine months, the UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Coalition, including both the Executive Directorate, Cologne Hub, and other Hubs, has been significantly involved in many high-level, international and multilateral policymaking activities, especially in connection with the United Nations Summit of the Future (SOTF).
ASU Flagship Hub News: From Idea to Action and Impact: Mobilizing the Outcomes of the Summit of the Future. The BRIDGES Flagship positioned our high-level Action Days session for the Summit of the Future in direct relationship with our Wales Hub and the Wales Protocol for Future Generations, using the Futures Generations Commission as a model for how practical frameworks can translate the commitments of the Declaration on Future Generations into action.
