Our blogger Josh Grundleger reports about the Bertelsmann Foundation’s fifth annual conference which focuses on economic growth through innovation, global financial governance and the eurozone crisis: “System Upgrade: Time for [...]
And the winner is: Inequality! Our FutureChallenges.org project team will soon be turning its attention to (social) inequality – and rightly so. After three years of discussions on the various aspects [...]
Unbox festival is a design festival held in Delhi. The first among 3 article, this one gives a glimpse into the creative collaborations that are challenging the prevalent notions of urban development and housing.
Unbox festival is a design festival held in Delhi. The last among 3 article, this one gives a glimpse into the creative collaborations that are shaping new cultural practices.
Unbox festival is a design festival held in Delhi. The second among 3 article, this one gives a glimpse into the creative collaborations that are engineering social change through application of modern sciences.
Last week my colleague Jan Arpe and I had the opportunity to take part in a workshop organized with support from our side by our partner, the Swedish Tällberg-Foundation. Held [...]
Lessons for Europe from Latin America As I prepared to write what has become the paper Surviving a Debt Crisis: Five Lessons for Europe from Latin America, my first question [...]
The third in a series of Future Challenges Readers is published! “Help Wanted“ covers the topic of unemployment, a plague sickening many of the world’s largest economies. The subject requires us [...]
Aubrey de Grey is one of the world’s foremost voices on bio-gerontology. He may also be the only gerontologist whose work MIT would pay to see proven wrong; the university’s [...]
At the Contemporary Carlowitz Summit, hosted by the Bertelsmann Foundation and the German Council for Sustainable Development, Future Challenges spoke with Klaus Töpfer (Interview in German). Töpfer is the former [...]