Keyword: Finland Futures Research Centre (FFRC)

Due to the current pandemic this 21st Futures Conference will be organised fully online as a virtual conference. 

Could we find new pathways for change, if we were able to see the world through many futures? Futures Researcher Nicolas Balcom Raleigh challenges people and organisations to contemplate their stance on the future as well as to expand their uses of the future.

The book “Electrification in Peer-to-Peer Society – A New Narrative for Sustainable Futures” written by Sirkka Heinonen and Joni Karjalainen is now published in Spanish. See below the availability and description in Spanish. 

At this Summit, UNESCO is expected to declare Futures Literacy to be an essential 21st Century skill. Like other literacies (e.g. science literacy, data literacy, media literacy) this skill is concerns the futures people, organizations and societies imagine. It is the capability to expand the variety of modes and reasons for imagining futures and identifying opportunities for action in the present.

What kind of future do you build with your actions today? The future is constantly present in our everyday lives, guiding our actions and decisions – whether we are aware of that or not.

Finland Futures Research Centre's 21st annual Futures Conference will be organized during 10–12 June 2020 in Helsinki, Finland on a theme 'Learning Futures – Futures of Learning'. You are warmly welcome to join us on discussing the futures of learning!

Professor Sirkka Heinonen and Project Researcher Joni Karjalainen from the University of Turku, Finland Futures Research Centre have launched a new international science book called “Electrification in Peer-to-Peer Society – a New Narrative for Sustainable Futures”. The science book summarizes the findings of the four-year Neo-Carbon Energy research project.

Futures Conference 2019 focused on the concept of agency in action and research for futures. ‘Constructing Futures – Sustainability, Responsibility and Power’ was organized on 12–13 June in Logomo, Turku. Together with 280 participants from 29 different countries we succeeded to generate multidisciplinary, stimulating and critical discussions that promoted networking between people interested in futures issues from different backgrounds.

As we move further into the 21st century, we need to renew our understanding of what it means to learn, teach, and develop new knowledge. Education systems and learning processes for people of all ages are needed to navigate uncertainty, address known problems, identify new ones, and be able to detect and make the sense of emergent issues and opportunities. The roles of education and learning are also becoming more essential in solving the pressing global ecological, cultural, societal and economic challenges.