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The Mind, Thinking and Creativity project aims to consciously enhance our understanding of the characteristic ways in which we think, increase our awareness of the inherent limitations and blind spots generated by those characteristics, and develop the capacity to think creatively in a more comprehensive and integrated manner outside the confines of our existing conceptual frameworks. The human mind is the highest evolved status of human consciousness. The development of new capacities of mind made possible the development of tools, language, agriculture, permanent settlements, religion, trade, transportation, communication, government, law, money, arts, education, nation states, and scientific and technological research. So too, each stage in the development of civilization has shaped the evolution of the human mind and its faculties and the way they are applied in life.

Civil Society and Youth organizations (CSOs) need to collaborate more closely and catalyse broad and inclusive social movements for transformation from the bottom up, by engaging more strongly at a local level and mobilising the general public. Transformative digital technologies can revolutionise decision making in CSOs and are greatly expanding the reach of CSOs, while also creating new risks such as surveillance. CSOs must include youth in decision making and give them opportunities, lest they become the next ‘lost generation’, like the youth of the 1920s.  Youth themselves must stand up and demand their rights and prepare for taking the lead.

Fundamental science is essential for a coherent approach to the challenges of a sustainable and inclusive recovery, the resilience of global supply chains, and the competitiveness of our economies. WAAS has initiated a discussion to explore the connections between the sciences, the relationship between science and society, the social responsibility of science and its contribution to energy, medicine, health, climate action, education, and sustainable development. Each country should create its integrated approach to the research and development chain. Basic research, i.e., exploration of the unknown, as an essential human desire and motivation, ought to drive the chain. Each country should define and dialectically unite its national and global approaches to science and technology

Global society has been evolving for millennia toward convergence through a long, slow, trial and error process of subconscious change driven by the pressure of circumstances and events. WAAS has studied the principles and theory of social transformation, guided by growing awareness of the need and opportunity to direct our collective energies and actions toward a better common future. A successful transformation involves several elements: a goal that is widely perceived to be desirable or essential to meet human aspirations, an effective strategy or method for accelerating the transition, a change in organization, and a social process for rapid transmission, imitation, and adoption by society at large. WAAS’ theory of Social Transformation enables humanity to make the process of societal change conscious, faster and more effective.

During the past decade WAAS convened an international working group and conducted five international conferences on the need for radical change in economic theory and public policy. Current economic theory and policy are rooted in flawed neoliberal economic dogma which must be challenged in order to effect and sustain fundamental change in economic policy. The project has documented the dire need for new thinking and action to address the pressing problem of unemployment in the world today. This includes recognising full employment as a fundamental human right. An integrated social theory of employment is needed to provide the essential foundation for more effective practices. It is necessary to examine existing perspectives and evolve a more inclusive theoretical framework that more effectively harnesses unutilized potential to fulfill unmet social needs