| Start date: | 05/05/2025 |
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| End date: | 30/05/2025 |
| Where: | Online |
The Challenge
How we produce, distribute, and consume food affects us all— from our local communities to the global economy and environment. 2025 is a critical year for food and agriculture, not just in Europe, but across the globe. This is your chance to be part of an interactive and unique IDEA CHALLENGE, Future4Citizens (F4C), to explore, discuss, and help create a new vision for #FOOD and #AGRICULTURE.
Whether you are a farmer, a student, a policymaker, or simply a concerned citizen, your ideas can make a difference and help create a future where food systems work for all of us.
This experience is designed to fit your schedule, allowing you to engage whenever and however it works best for you.
Why it matters
Sustainable food systems are essential for economic growth, reducing poverty, and ensuring social stability worldwide. But agriculture is facing serious challenges that touch every part of the world: climate change, food insecurity, economic instability, and political uncertainty. These issues affect everyone, everywhere, and they require bold action and fresh thinking from all of us.
As the European Commission unveils its new Vision for Agriculture and Food, and discussions on the next Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) unfold, we have a unique chance to reshape food systems for greater resilience, sustainability, and fairness. This is an opportunity to make a real difference—and we need your ideas to create change that benefits us all.
Here’s How It Works
Be part of 3-step online journey, where your voice matters, your ideas count, and together, we turn visions into action.
1) LISTEN
Watch the video podcast Reimagine Agriculture with Louise Fresco and share your reflections by clicking on interactive cards – no need to pause or write. In this short video podcast, the renowned expert explores the successes, challenges, and future of Europe’s agricultural system within a global context. AI-driven insights to explore and compare feedback across Europe will be shared via email.
Episodes are in English, with subtitles available in French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish. Time Commitment: About 30 minutes. Tune in anytime, anywhere on your mobile or computer.
2) BRIDGE
Submit your Vision on the Future of Food and Farming: it’s 2050, and the world’s food systems have transformed into something smarter, fairer, and more resilient. What does it look like through your eyes? Anonymised submissions will be analysed by AI-driven tools to offer a shared vision and suggest policy proposals.
Language of submission: English. Time commitment: About 15 minutes. Type anytime, anywhere on your mobile or computer.
3) ACT
Co-create innovative solutions at the digital IDEA FACTORY. You can A) Enrich an existing idea by adding new insights, examples, or improvements.; B) Propose a bold, new idea—don’t hold back! Feel free to challenge the status quo and think outside the box. No idea is too big or too radical—this is your space to innovate!
Language of submission: English. Time commitment: About 15 minutes. Write and comment anytime, anywhere, on your PC only.
Your Engagement Gets Recognised!
The most impactful contributions will be showcased during our Strategic Forum on REIMAGINE FOOD & AGRICULTURE, that will take place in Brussels (Belgium) on 4-5 June 2025.
🎁 Win a Prize!
3 participants engaged in the 3 steps will be randomly selected to receive a special prize for their engagement. Each winner will receive a subscription or gift card (up to €150) for one of the following:
- A top European news or journal platform
- A podcast platform of your choice
About the Initiative
This initiative is part of the experimental phase of the EU-funded research project ORBIS (Augmenting participation, co-creation, trust and transparency in deliberative democracy), which aims at making policymaking more inclusive. Its technology is boosted by Artificial Intelligence to analyse and visualize discourse around challenging topics, helping us identify common ground where restart the public debate on our future.
Should you wish to get in touch, please contact events@re-imagine.eu
