Keyword: Finland Futures Research Centre (FFRC)

We often take future for granted, and long-term future considerations are easily surpassed with more urgent issues. We rarely have time to stop to think about what kind of perceptions of future really guide our operations in the present. The first national Finnish Future Day on March 1st, 2019 offers ready-made materials and invites Finns and the international community to discuss alternative futures. 

Association of Professional Futurists has announced its Most Significant Futures Works (MSFW) Award Winners for 2018. Among the winners are Finland Futures Research Centre's Doctoral student, MA Akhgar Kaboli's and Professor Petri Tapio's article on images of the future of young adults.

​The forthcoming Futures Conference will focus on the concept of agency in action and research for futures. ‘Constructing Futures’ emphasizes opportunities and challenges related to the need for building and critically evaluating capabilities necessary for sustainable futures.

The new multidisciplinary research project of the University of Turku, which focuses on the utilisation of big data in territorial policy development, is part of the ESPON research programme. The project is coordinated by the Centre for Collaborative Research of the School of Economics.

Finland Futures Research Centre (FFRC) is one of the few university departments devoted to futures research in the world. Jointly founded by three universities in Turku in 1992, the FFRC is a department within the Turku School of Economics at the University of Turku, Finland. Professors Petri Tapio and Sirkka Heinonen have written a thorough review of futures research in Finland, focusing especially on FFRC. This article has recently been published by the World Futures Review, SAGE Publications.

Pentti Malaska – A Visionary and Forerunner is an intellectual biography of the life and work of Professor Pentti Malaska (1934–2012). Pentti Malaska played a key pioneering role in developing and establishing the academic discipline of futures studies not only in Finland, but also internationally.