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The first off-Earth learning entity where young people co-create the systems humanity will need to thrive on Earth and beyond.
It's not a traditional institution. It's a new kind of planetary learning network built around a simple idea: those who will inherit the future must be the ones who design it.
The Moon is humanity’s closest real and undefined environment — a place where existing models fall away and first-principles thinking becomes necessary. It offers the blank canvas required to reimagine how humans coordinate, govern, resolve conflict, share resources, and sustain culture across worlds.
By 2035, the Lunar University will open the first classroom on the Moon — not as a beginning, but as the culmination of a decade of curriculum co-created by thousands of young thinkers across continents and knowledge traditions.The work begins on Earth, but the vision extends beyond it.
The Lunar University is designed as enduring learning infrastructure: distributed, inclusive, and capable of carrying wisdom between Earth and space.
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Humanity is making decisions today that will shape how we live and work beyond Earth for centuries. But the frameworks guiding these choices still come from a small set of institutions and perspectives. The Lunar University exists to change that. The Moon offers a rare opportunity: a real environment where old assumptions fall away and new systems can be imagined from first principles. By treating it as common ground for learning, inquiry, and collective design, we can build models of governance, collaboration, and stewardship that serve everyone — not just the few. The systems we create for the Moon will influence how we shape life on Earth. The Lunar University ensures that this next chapter includes the imagination, ethics, and wisdom of many, not the interests of a few.
The Lunar University will be humanity’s first learning institution beyond Earth — not a traditional school, but a planetary learning network with a classroom on the Moon as its anchor.It will be a place where scientists, artists, philosophers, engineers, and cultural leaders work side by side to explore how humans can thrive in environments with no inherited systems. Challenges like growing food in lunar soil, designing fair governance for shared space, or creating culture in a place without sound or atmosphere become shared prompts for global inquiry. The work happens across worlds: ideas generated on Earth are tested against the constraints of the Moon, and insights from the lunar environment inform solutions for food, climate, conflict, resource commons, and governance back home. The first classroom on the Moon — opening in 2035 — will symbolize a decade of youth-generated learning. It will serve as a meeting place for people ready to explore not only what is possible in space, but what becomes possible for humanity when we learn, imagine, and build systems together.
We begin now with LunARC’s pilot design labs and the NEXUS Demonstrator, which together test whether first-principles prototypes can form the early foundations of a learning system. As the model proves itself, the network expands — integrating insights from institutions and communities around the world that already engage youth in research, creativity, and systems thinking, and giving their contributions a longer, more dynamic life through the full NEXUS platform. Over the next decade, these diverse inputs grow into a shared planetary curriculum that will ultimately deploy to the lunar surface — culminating in a classroom on the Moon in 2035.
The Lunar University will not be owned by any corporation, government, existing university, billionaire, or narrow consortium. It is designed to belong to all of us. Built through a global coalition, it will grow from partnerships with educational institutions, space agencies, nonprofits, cultural communities, and youth-driven networks around the world. LunARC is not the owner but the steward — helping sh ape the early architecture so the system remains open, inclusive, and collaborative as it matures. The Lunar University is meant to stand as proof that humanity can work together across borders and generations to build something for the common good.
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