Future4Cities 2025 - 3rd Edition
The Festival of Changing Cities

Created by Will Media and FROM - Moltiplichiamo Valore Pubblico, and co-produced by OGR Torino

September 26 - 28, 2025
OGR Torino

The call for the Future4Cities 2025 award is now open! Submit your project using the online form and bring it to Future4Cities

Cities are changing. And with them, so are the ideas, projects, and people who are imagining a fairer, more sustainable, and more inclusive future every day. From September 26 to 28, Future4Cities returns: the festival that brings together those who want to be part of this transformation. After the success of its first two editions in Milan, the festival arrives at OGR Torino for a new gathering of talks and workshops.
Three days open to citizens, professionals, activists, administrators, and entrepreneurs: a nationwide community coming together to share, inspire, and build better cities.
Future4Cities is the festival of ideas, people, and projects that are redefining how we live in urban spaces. Launched in 2023 by Will, it has quickly become one of Italy’s leading public events dedicated to urban innovation.
Over the years, it has welcomed more than 4,000 participants, 100 speakers, and mapped 670 projects. Figures that reflect the growth of a community made up of businesses, researchers, public institutions, associations, and engaged citizens.

FUTURE4CITIES AWARD 2025
This year as well, the festival will celebrate projects that are making a real difference in cities across Italy, large and small, through practical solutions, community involvement, and collaborative networks. The call for projects is open until June 27, 2025.
Submitted projects will be evaluated by a panel of experts and the broader community, and must fall within one of four key areas:

- Climate Action
Initiatives to fight climate change and promote adaptation strategies; reforestation, biodiversity protection and enhancement; actions to improve air and water quality; promotion of renewable energy and efficient resource use; sustainable food systems; decarbonization of mobility.
Who can apply: Public and private entities

- Grassroots Projects
Bottom-up campaigns (advocacy, volunteering, cooperation pacts, processes to reclaim and reactivate unused spaces); efforts to combat inequality and discrimination, expand rights, create community gardens and social projects, neighborhood networks and social inclusion programs, cultural urban regeneration initiatives.
Who can apply: Social enterprises, associations, committees, informal groups

- Local Economic Development
Policies to promote quality employment; initiatives to innovate vocational training and invest in new skills; plans to strengthen local economies; place marketing; festivals and cultural events to attract new flows; efforts to revitalize local commerce and boost youth engagement; support for entrepreneurship.
Who can apply: Public bodies, trade associations, research institutions, local and corporate foundations, NGOs

- Urban Transformation
Projects to convert and revitalize districts, former industrial areas, railway yards, military barracks, and manufacturing sites, breathing new life into cities and improving neighborhood-level quality of life; iconic developments that shape or reinforce urban identity.
Who can apply: Public and private entities

Do you have an ongoing or recently completed project that’s transforming your city? Submit it using the online form and showcase it at Future4Cities.