Berlin Governance Platform

What we stand for

Climate change, poverty and injustice, global migration, demographic change, depletion of natural resources, corruption and mismanagement – these issues represent some of the greatest social challenges of our time. Previous approaches to solving these problems are increasingly reaching their limits – and not just at the national level. New ways of thinking, transformative visions, and procedures oriented toward the common good must be developed for these complex problems in order to arrive at sustainable solutions. Participation and transparency are fundamental components of this process.

Our goals

We create spaces for future shapers to find networked solutions for a just and fair future. Whether in their own communities or globally, actors from politics, administration, civil society, and business are committed to addressing important issues for the future. We bring these actors together locally and globally to find multi-perspective answers to complex questions and to pool potential in order to shape a sustainable and just future. Our approach is not only to demand change, but to change practice ourselves.

We bring together different perspectives and combine experience-based knowledge and scientific expertise. Power hierarchies make some perspectives more visible than others, even though all perspectives are relevant to a sustainable and just future and need to be made visible. We bring the different perspectives into direct exchange and enable equal negotiation of positions and needs.

We promote transparent and participatory governance. Social-ecological transformation is not a linear process and requires a creative and dynamic approach to find answers to important questions about the future. We bring knowledge together and into dialogue in order to understand the present and the future and to change both together towards a just and sustainable future.