Discovering our futures – A Hungarian example

The study offers an insight to the project called “Hungary 2025” that aimed at building future alternatives based on complex understanding of the future. With the younger generations in focus the research went beyond discovering the future orientation of youth and developed complex social futures alternatives. Our paper introduces the methodological approach and the empirical foundations of the project as well as its results. In the research process a new methodological approach was developed based on complexity, participativity and alternativity. The toolkit applied included trend observation, stakeholder involvement and scenario-building as well. The empirical base of the research was a mass survey of young people complemented with an expert survey which together offered a double-fold insight into the fears and hopes characterizing our futures. The results of the survey are presented in the study along with the emerging patterns that later in the process were used as an input to build social alternatives of the future.