Family Megatrends in the Future of Europe (9 July 2021)
Channel: International Federation for Family Development
Date: 2021-07-10

Megatrends, including new technologies, rapid urbanization and migration, as well as demographic and climate change, have been dramatically shaping our world. In preparation for the Thirtieth Anniversary of the International Year of the Family, 2024 (IYF+30), the United Nations aims to raise awareness of the above megatrends, their impact on families and responsive family-oriented policies to tackle their effects.
The Conference on the Future of Europe is a citizen-led series of debates and discussions that will enable people from across Europe to share their ideas and help shape our common future. It is the first of its kind: as a major pan-European democratic exercise, it offers a new public forum for an open, inclusive, and transparent debate with citizens around a number of key priorities and challenges. It aims to reflect our diversity, and to bring Europe beyond its capital cities, reaching every corner of the EU, strengthening the link between Europeans and the institutions that serve them. It does so through a multitude of Conference-events and debates organised across the EU, as well as through an interactive multilingual digital platform. Young people in particular are encouraged to take part and share their ideas. European, national, regional and local authorities, as well as civil society and other organisations can also organise events to involve as many people as possible.
It is within this spirit that IFFD is taking the chance or being invited to organize an event during the celebration of the European Large Families Conference to bring into the debate the present and future of the influence of those megatrends in the future of Europe.