Our Future: a renewed dialogue between Africa and Europe

Inspired by the proposals of the committed young people who took part in the New Africa-France Summit on October 8, 2021, in Montpellier, but also by the conclusions of Achille Mbembe's report, Les nouvelles-relations Afrique-France: relever ensemble les défis de demain, this cycle of major events brings together personalities from all over Africa and Europe to debate major societal issues.

For all the partners in these major events, the challenge is to forge an increasingly close dialogue between civil societies in Africa and Europe, to invent new solutions to the challenges that the two continents face together. To this end, Our Future meetings ensure the conditions for free, transparent and peaceful exchanges, turned towards new ideas and methods of cooperation.

Organized, at every stage, with numerous organizations from Africa and the French Institute, each Our Future - Africa-Europe Dialogues forum gives voice to chapters of personalities from all fields, from both the host country and the rest of Africa and Europe. In particular, the floor is given to young people from civil societies on both continents.

Our Future kicked off in Johannesburg, South Africa, on October 7 and 8, 2022, before a second episode, in Yaoundé, Cameroon, from December 1 to 3, and a third in Algiers, from February 3 to 5, 2023. A fourth forum was held in Mauritius from November 3 to 5, 2023, a fifth in Abidjan from April 20 to 22, 2024, and a sixth in Cotonou, Benin, from June 6 to 8, 2024.

In 2025, a forum in Salvador de Bahia

As part of the Season of France in Brazil, a new Our Future forum will take place from November 5 to 8, 2025 in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. 
This forum will be a space for meeting and reflection, offering a unique platform for collective dialogue. It will feature young people and new voices from Brazilian, African and French civil societies, invited to imagine together the cities of tomorrow: more open, fairer and greener.