Welcome to FuturISE!
The COVID-19 pandemic can be seen as a multidimensional “stress test” for intergenerational solidarity. It has sparked controversy in various countries about the moral relationships and responsibilities between generations.
The project aims at a comparative socio-empirical exploration, moral-philosophical clarification and public deliberation of ideas and conceptions of intergenerational solidarity in Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Based on the experiences of the pandemic, the aim is the empirically informed, participatory development of morally acceptable and socially sustainable visions for the future of intergenerational relations at both national and transnational levels.
Starting from the experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic, the FuturISE project aims at a comparative socio-empirical exploration, moral-philosophical clarification, and public deliberation of ideas and concepts of intergenerational solidarity in Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
We are an interdisciplinary and international team of scientists from Germany (University of Oldenburg), Sweden (Linköping University), and the United Kingdom (University College London).
Here you can find the latest results and publications from our project.
Project group meets in London
The FuturISE Consortium was part of the Aging & Social Change Conference 2025 in Norrköping with a plenary panel session.
Lena Dörmann, Eva Katharina Boser and Niklas Ellerich-Groppe gave presentations at the ESPMH 2025
Eva Katharina Boser and Niklas Ellerich-Groppe presented project results at the ISA in Rabat
The FuturISE project group was represented with a joint panel at the ENAS and NANAS Conference 2025.
Eva Katharina Boser and Niklas Ellerich-Groppe presented initial findings from the FuturISE research group
Our FuturISE project was part of the Volkswagen Foundation’s Status Symposium “Potentials and Challenges for Europe” (September 4-6, 2024) in Hanover.
On April 1, 2024, started the new research project “The Future of Intergenerational Solidarity beyond the Pandemic: Empirically-Informed Ethical Analysis and Public Deliberation”.
