10.04.2025 / News

Our colleagues Lutz Drieling and Ștefan Cibian attended the “Infrastructures for the Future” international conference, together with more than 90 participants from Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Oceania – leaders of community foundations, civic initiatives and partners in philanthropy and development.

The conference was the result of a 6-month collaborative process and explored three key directions for the future of communities:

• Infrastructure – how we can sustain and strengthen community initiatives;
• Futures – how do we prepare communities for tomorrow’s challenges;
• Ecosystems – how we connect globally to build a shared movement with vision and meaning.

FRI contributed to developing the section of the conference focused on local community resilience and the role of community foundations.

Departments: School for Sustainable Development; Research Department; Educational Programs Department; Society, Crisis and Resilience Program; Community Foundations & SGDs.

Regions: Global; Europe; Romania.

Themes: Democracy and Democratization; Philanthropy and Community Development; Civic Engagement; Leadership; Sustainable Development Goals; Public Policy; Civil Society.

The School for Sustainable Development project was selected as part of Raiffeisen Communities, the NGO accelerator in sustainability. A Raiffeisen Bank initiative, with the support of the Association for Community Relations.