📢 After three years of collaboration across Europe, the DUST project has officially come to an end.

But the journey doesn’t stop here.

‼️ Our website brings together the project’s key results: lnkd.in/dakPM-jq

👉 Explore the results and resources in more detail in our latest blog:
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🚀 Community futures on the move

🌍 The DUST RFLL exhibition took voices from regions in transition—from Brussels to Katowice and Delft—into public and policy spaces

✨ Read here 👉 www.dustproject.eu/post/the-dus...

🌱 In 2025, young people in Lusatia took part in workshops 3 and 4 of DUST's Regional Future Literacy Labs (RFLLs).

🤝 They shared their vision of a Lusatia with affordable housing, better mobility, inclusive public spaces, and opportunities for all generations.

📑 Read more: lnkd.in/d--3jtmu

✨ Holiday Greetings from the DUST project ✨

🎁 Over the past months, we have been working hard to bring together the insights, experiences and tools from our project that work towards a more sustainable and just future.

🌟Watch this space for wonderful presents coming in the new year! 🌟

📚 In a combined RFLL workshop young people explored what matters most for Lusatia’s sustainability transition.

📢 Their message is clear: young people want a future where mobility enables opportunity and where Lusatia remains a place they can call home.

📖 Read more here: lnkd.in/gVDAKm3G

How can the role of communities in the energy transition be visualised? The R&D Studio: Spatial Strategies for the Global Metropolis at TU Delft’s MSc Urbanism programme shows how students and researchers are rethinking citizen participation and the just transition.

See here: shorturl.at/555a8

🧳 DUST partners gathered in Sofia and Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, for our last consortium meeting.

📢 Through dialogue, design, and learning, DUST is showing how communities can take part in shaping just sustainability transitions.

Read the full reflection here 👉 lnkd.in/eFpA8X4w

🌍 We’ve released three key deliverables as part of our experimental project phase

📚 These three deliverables showcase actionable tools to put communities at the centre of policymaking through spatial representation, regional design and e-democracy.

Read more here: lnkd.in/eJEfBGkV

🌙 Do you have a dream for your region’s future? How can these visions become realistic?

👋Welcome, Katowice’s 4th RFLL where participants explored policies that can help bring these futures to life!

👓Read on to find out what arose from the discussions: www.dustproject.eu/post/from-im...

4️⃣The fourth Regional Futures Literacy Lab in Stara Zagora explored how communities envision their future and the policies to make it happen.

🧐Curious to find out more? Check out the blog post here: www.dustproject.eu/post/from-in...

🎯Touchdown! Norrbotten’s final DUST Regional Futures Literacy Lab (RFLL).

🏛️Building on previous labs, participants, including rural residents and policymakers, worked together to turn seed statements into actionable policy recommendations

👉Learn more: www.dustproject.eu/post/norrbot...