FuturISE project started

On April 1, 2024, started the new research project “The Future of Intergenerational Solidarity beyond the Pandemic: Empirically-Informed Ethical Analysis and Public Deliberation”. Following on from the predecessor project PRISMAE, the project sees the coronavirus pandemic as a multidimensional stress test for solidarity between generations. The debates and discussions that began in this context touched on fundamental questions of social cohesion and the legitimacy of moral and legal claims. In view of further challenges that are changing the future horizon of European societies, such as the war in Ukraine, demographic change and the climate crisis, such questions are becoming increasingly important. Against this background, the project aims at the empirical exploration, ethical evaluation and public deliberation of ideas of intergenerational solidarity in Germany, Sweden and the UK. The project is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation with a total of around 1.3 million euros.