UNESCO

Cornelius Holtorf ran on 10 June 2026 a full-day workshop entitled “Futures Literacy Follow-Up Capacity-Building Session” which had been arranged for the international Expert Group on Archiving and Awareness Preservation (EGAAP) at the OECD’s Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA).

About 20 EGAAP members, representing Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the U.K., participated in the workshop.

The workshop chose the so-called Key Information File (KIF) of repositories of nuclear waste as a concrete reference point for illustrating practical implications of the capability known as “futures literacy”. This capability was developed by UNESCO and during the workshop, the Organization was represented by Christine Kavazanjian.

One participant stated at the end that in his opinion, the KIF we design today would be entirely meaningless at the time of repository closure a minimum of ca 100 years ahead. What mattered was, however, the lessons learn during the process of designing it. Some such lessons were learned during the workshop today, e.g. about the need to take a broader range of possible futures and multiple truths about nuclear waste into account.