Project duration
May 2020
June 2023
Each year, foraus and the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts accompany two cohorts of students excelling at Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences who are supported in their diverse careers by a scholarship from the Hirschmann Foundation. Enabled by its innovative strength and its experience with participatory formats, foraus organizes interactive workshops for the scholarship holders, where they can get to know each other and discuss a future-oriented topic of their choice together. In order to develop constructive, new solutions for the chosen social problems, a lively exchange is animated on the Policy Kitchen platform. After the kick-off workshop, the fellows are accompanied in the output process and create blog posts and other products on the topic.
How will the transformation in the way we work accelerate or mitigate the trend of individualisation in our society?
The future of human mobility
How can access to knowledge and information be democratized?
- What role may music have in the democratization of knowledge and information in the futures space?
- How is information about nature and its preservation spread today, and how should knowledge become more accessible in the futures space?
- How is information about nature and its preservation spread today, and how should knowledge become more accessible in the futures space?
- How much knowledge and information can actually be accessed – and processed – by an individual?
- What is the role of the past – and the future – in knowledge and information and the accessibility of it?
Biodiversity in Switzerland
How does the young generation see themselves revolutionizing civic action? Where do they see priorities for us as individuals to contribute to society at large?
Bringing together 25 young thinkers from a variety of academic fields, we used Policy Kitchen to develop visions for how artificial intelligence is likely to affect their futures. The result is a four-part blog series on how novel tools will shape our lives and societies.
