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Podcast “Zukünfte⋅Bildung”: How can Futures Literacy be promoted among educators, students, researchers and anyone who is enthusiastic about creative and interdisciplinary educational formats? These and many other questions are discussed in the podcast “Zukünfte⋅Bildung” by the Center for Futures⋅Education and the UNESCO Chair every third Monday of the month. Innovative educational approaches to future education are brought to the spotlight and examined with guests from a wide range of educational institutions and specialist areas. 

Theater Club for the Futures: Starting from summer semester 2025, Futures Literacy will take the stage at PH Niederösterreich – in the form of a Theater Club! In this creative space, we will collaboratively develop characters, practice improvisation and imagination, and write a unique play. Whether you have theater experience or not – everyone is warmly welcome! Interested individuals can sign up with Ioana Capatu. Let’s shape futures together and bring exciting stories to the stage!

Learning future, teaching futures: How can futures thinking be encouraged in children and young people? Which creative, cultural, artistic and media practices promote ecological awareness and enable transformative learning experiences? Which didactic concepts support teachers in teaching futures literacy? In the research and development project ‘Learning future, teaching futures’, didactic concepts, methods and tools are being developed to promote futures thinking in Lower Austrian schools. Innovative formats for basic, further and continuing education are being developed that convey futures literacy to Lower Austrian teachers as change agents in order to strengthen innovation, enable participation and promote an understanding of science in society.

FuturesComp: How can Futures Literacy be integrated into Austrian higher education? On behalf of the BMBWF, the UNESCO Chairs at the MCI and the PH NÖ are working together to create a reference framework for Futures Literacy that can serve as a guide for implementing futures education in higher education teaching. To this end, key competences are identified, a competence model is developed, learning objectives are described and exemplary learning scenarios are formulated.

CultureNature Literacy (CNL): Curricular key competences for shaping the future in the Anthropocene. Against future anxiety and climate concerns, the concept of CultureNature Literacy (CNL) emphasizes cultural sustainability. Because teachers want and need encouraging visions of the future, not scenarios of catastrophe.

INSE: Interdisciplinary Network für Science Education: In cooperation with scientists from the WasserCluster Lunz, the AECC Biology, three partner schools, the Haus der Wildnis Lunz and the Lower Austrian Education Region 3, at the Centre Futures Literacy we are developing innovative approaches for science lessons in the INSE project in order to jointly increase young people's understanding of science.

"One day there will be...": Circular Materials Narratives for Futures in the Anthropocene. In the cocreative process of the futures workshop, primary school pupils explore the material resources in fairy tales as citizen scientists and create multimodal material stories. This results in future narratives, the analysis of which provides insights into Futures Literacy.

"Is there a future in fairy tales?" The research design of the lesson study (Mewald & Rauscher, 2019) uses the example of future fairy tales to investigate how a media concept for the primary level, which facilitates an encounter with nature through literary-aesthetic and intermedial dialogue (Sippl & Tengler, 2022), can be transferred to fairy tales and to what extent intermedial mediation promotes Futures literacy.

"Learning and Teaching the Anthropocene": The Anthropocene concept, the term for the current phase of the Earth's history in which massive human intervention in the environment becomes visible, calls for reflection on both the need and the possibility of a future-oriented reorganisation of the relationship between humans and nature and to use it for active learning processes. The Anthropocene therefore offers an important framework for transformative educational processes that enable Futures literacy.