Academic Year
2024–2025
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ANNUAL REPORTS/
ANNUAL REPORT
ANNUAL REPORTS/
ANNUAL REPORT
Academic Year
2024–2025
We are pleased to release our 2024-2025 annual report – a year dedicated to 'Re-thinking Capitalism'. Our fourth cohort brought together 55 international fellows (69 academics and 31 practitioners from 20 countries) to interrogate capitalism's foundations, limits, and alternatives through six groundbreaking programs: Futures of Capitalism, Africapitalism, Beyond Capitalism, The Future of Food, Planetary Governance, and Bitter Victory.
This year yielded transformative outcomes: the Nigerian government officially adopted the OKOBI initiative as a national poverty-fighting strategy; our fellows laid the groundwork for an International Court of the Environment and a Global Environment Agency; and they produced comprehensive reports on achieving just and sustainable food systems. We also put ideas into action, resulting in a substantial body of academic publications and public interventions and establishing a broad network of global thinkers and practitioners committed to a more just and democratic future. Enjoy browsing!
DIRECTORS' FOREWORD
At THE NEW INSTITUTE we gather thinkers across disciplines and sectors to engage the challenges of our time. Our mission is to nourish transformation through interdisciplinary and trans-sectoral collaboration. Our residential fellowship program hosts up to 30 fellows in Hamburg, Germany. In addition, we organize events and workshops and collaborate with other institutions. The Institute is committed to incubating new ideas, expanding the influence of work already done, and making a tangible difference through its work.
Since 2022, we have framed our activities in terms of the global discourse on a New Enlightenment. The goal has been to identify strategies for re-coupling sectors (for instance, economics and ethics) that are systematically uncoupled. In the first instance, this requires the creation of distinctive research formats. It is not enough to apply diagnostic insights from academia to so-called “practice”; these sectors must be participants from the beginning in order to adequately reshape the problem space within which academic work proceeds. In this way, we intend to generate innovative, realistic ideas for positive social change.