Future Dreams of Young People – Tools to Promote Young People’s Civic Participation

Do we hear the voice of children and young when developing our society? The research project “Youngpeople’s images of the future 2067” focuses on bringing forth youth’s dreams and hopes for the future,and based on those desires to construct proposals for policymakers. A participatory future campmethod is used to challenge high school and vocational school students to ponder on future issues.Based on future camp material a survey with six different futures images is designed and respondentsrate them according to probability and desirability. It is found out that the future camp method can beused both for encouraging futures thinking and gathering data of future related values and thoughts.