Established in 1979, the Foundation for Future Studies (“FFS”) has been for thirty years examining the way society behaves, reacts, thinks. Our aim is to provide a vision of the future based on peoples’ reaction to the world around them. If that sounds like a vertiginous ideology, it should be no more than the least that we ask from each other - the natural symbiosis of an empathic society. We hope to do this with a system predicated on realism, rather than idealism. We seek practical, applicable data and trends that can suggest solutions to problems in the world.

They say the world is getting smaller. We agree. Though, as our research constantly shows us, Europe does not think with one mind, more and more of its people face the same challenges, and share the same concerns. More and more, we hear a polyglot answer to a generic question. For this reason, FFS has recently expanded into Europe, aiming to bring the level of academic and social research that we have brought to Germany to the wider European community.

Our interpretation of the data we collate is both pragmatic and imaginative. It is a prognosis and a vision of what the future holds. It is not an exact science, and we do not promise to provide a panacea for the future. We do not suggest policy or advocate particular decisions. Our goal is, instead, to use the statistical data we have gathered to provide a reliable prediction for our future. We want to be a signpost for the challenges that lay ahead of us, that we all may be better prepared for when that time comes to meet them. But the awareness and the discussion of these ideas, regardless of their outcome, can only benefit us as a society, and it is society that remains always at the forefront of our thinking.