EUROPE 2025: INVESTMENTS IN EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Odile Quintin

This article covers the prospective visions that will become obsolete quicker than expected. Whatever the future, it will not be as we imagine it. The precise line of our future we cannot draw. 
Though, we know it already, some fundamental trends will have a higher impact on the Europe of 2025. The sustainable development will be a determining variable in the lay-out of the world of tomorrow. The same goes for demographic aging, for globalization – in spite of the financial crisis shaking it today. Finally, the importance and the rhythm of the change which went on accelerating these last few years via technological progress will not change the tempo. On the contrary, an amplification of the process itself, of the social, economical and political changes, will certainly come out. Through the analysis of these said trends, we can envisage the most probable scenarii. A matter of fact appears for each of them: the near and far future of the Europeans will be prosperous if it relies on an active political training.