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Youth Decide About Visual
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Together with 10 partners, the AIT is coordinating "YouthDecide 2040", a project on the future of democracy in the EU. Citizens from all generations and politicians are jointly shaping desirable futures for 2040, combining democracy research and participatory futurology in order to master current social and technological challenges. After all, stable political framework conditions have a positive effect on economic development.

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NEEDS Repowered Kick Off
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The NEEDS Repowered project networks six European cities to make them more resilient to energy crises and avoid energy poverty. Led by AIT, Innsbruck, Karlsruhe, Krakow, Iași, Budaörs and Helsingborg are working together to strengthen the resilience of positive energy neighbourhoods - urban districts that generate more renewable energy than they consume. It is part of the Driving Urban Transitions partnership and is co-funded by the EU.

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Under the leadership of the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, the Foresight-on-Demand (FOD) consortium is advising the European Commission and fourteen other EU organisations on science and technology programming for a further period. The extension of the successful cooperation in the Foresight-on-Demand framework agreement enables the European Commission to promptly call up required future knowledge and build up anticipatory capacities in its own organisations. Knowledge is developed in participatory processes to orientate and underpin Europe's investment plans for science, research, technology and innovation. Results from previous Foresight-on-Demand projects supported, for example, the design of the EU Commission's "Horizon Europe 2nd Strategic plan 2025-2027".
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