The event is co-organized and co-financed by IIASA together with the initiator of the Forum – the Institute for Economic Strategies (INES) of the Russian Academy of Sciences – with the financial support of the Russian Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund.

As a part of IIASA’s science-diplomacy mandate, in the current time of a geopolitical crisis, we invite 35 talented young minds, senior experts, and high-level policy makers from the European Union, the Eurasian Economic Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States, East- and South-East Asia in a vibrant brainstorming on possible futures of the Greater Eurasian space in 2040 in economic, humanitarian and security dimensions. Demographic changes, digitalization of economy, emerging technologies such as block chains & 3D printing are all great challenges, which the next generations will have to face.

The Forum will inspire young people from different countries to come up with their vision of the future of Eurasian and European integration at the turn of 2040 and to reflect on what their own contribution might be. The foresight sessions will have a format of a dynamic strategic game, where young participants will be exposed to presentations by senior experts and high-level policy makers and take part in interactive seminars.