Navigating through the proposal
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Introduction to Project Aurelius &
Objectives
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What is Project Aurelius? What does it seek to achieve?
Introducing Project Aurelius
Video intoduction to our proposal
These, too, are times that try men’s [and women’s] souls
This video developed for Open Society Foundations, outlines the logic of Project Aurelius, offering an overview of our request for funding, the vision and purpose of the larger project and of the proposal information presented at prognostrophe.com. [16:45]
© Prognostrophe 2025
The Phases of Project Aurelius
From Open Society Foundations, we are initially seeking funding of £642,000 [circa USD 844,000] for Phase 1 of Project Aurelius only — an initial project for completion of the detailed definition of, and planning for, the Project in Phase 3 and for the preparation of high-quality presentation materials for prospective philanthropic and commercial funders from whom we will raise, in Phase 2, in excess of GBP 250 million, to fund the operating elements of Project Aurelius.
We would welcome participation of the Open Society Foundations in subsequent phases of Project Aurelius and in the operation of the not-for-profit and commercial ventures that will emerge from it — Futuresphere (not-for profit), XPLN Media and University of St James, London ProSPEc (for-profit)
What is Project Aurelius?
Project Aurelius is an ambitious and far-reaching project to create, initially in the UK, a world-class ideas ecoystem (or ideo-system) to influence public debate and public policy-making in a direction that is consistent with a pluralistic, open, liberal, democratic society that
(1) supports and encourages fair operation of a competitive market;
(2) recognises the role of the state in protecting the rights, freedoms of citizens, including from predation and exploitation;
(3) informs and promotes informing citizens about matters of public policy and trade-offs necessary to govern responsibly a liberal democratic society and
(4) encourages citizens to participate actively in the public sphere and in democratic politics.
Formulate & propose innovative policy solutions to major social, political, economic & environmental problems
Promote and enable to more participative and pluralistic public debate on public policy
To promote. convene & participate in coalitions of inviduals, groups & organisations . . .
. . . in order to influence public policy towards those values and the ends they imply
To communicate to the widest possible audience the knowledge, skills, processes & analytic methods needed to effect these aims
What will Project Aurelius aim to achieve?
Project Aurelius has the following objectives :
To formulate public policy platforms and proposals in relation to UK domestic, foreign and international spheres that will enhance pluralism and openness, liberalism and individual freedoms, democracy and participation, fairness and competitive markets, reason and tolerance, the rule of just laws and equal justice and the recognition and realisation of citizens’ responsiblities to respect and defend the rights and freedoms of others;
To promote these values and specific policy proposals in the public sphere and to increase participation in the public sphere in order to enhance the representativeness and legitimacy of systems of democratic decision-making;
To form (convene) and to participate in coalitions and alliances with other interested parties who share those pluralistic, fair liberal democratic, values; [the convening function]
To influence public policy-making to adopt policies, including those we advocate, to pursue those ends, initially in the UK then further afield; [the policy influencing function]
To encourage development of, and to develop directly, a pool of people fully fluent in the ideas and imperatives of pluralistic, open and fair liberal democracy, and the tools, techniques, processes and analytic methods of policy-making for both public and private sectors who can give act independently and realise to the values of pluralistic, open, liberal, democratic society in the UK and internationally.