Public event at the University of Turku on Wednesday, 23 October explored the future of universities from the perspective of strategic foresight. Organised both onsite and online, the event brought together a range of experts and audiences interested in the topic.
The newly published Future Directions and Possibilities for the University report from the University of Turku provides a rare and comprehensive overview of the factors affecting the future of universities and possible development paths. The report is part of the University's ongoing strategic foresight initiative launched in 2022 by the Strategic Planning Unit, in collaboration with the Finland Futures Research Centre.
Fremtenkt, CIFS, FFRC, NLA and VIA are happy to announce the launch of Futures Literacy in Teacher and Professional Education in the Nordics – a joint project between Nordic futures and teaching institutions, funded by Nordplus.
Futures Conference 2023 "Empowering Futures – Long-term Governance, Democracy and Futures Research" will be organised on 14−16 June 2023 in Turku, Finland and online. The Call for Papers, Posters and Workshops is now open – Welcome!
University of Turku takes part in the newly launched Horizon Europe project IN SITU - Place-based innovation of cultural and creative industries in non-urban areas (2022–2026). IN SITU is coordinated by the Centre of Social Studies at the University of Coimbra.
The Pentti Malaska Futures Award is given to a research-based and groundbreaking visionary innovation that can help with building a more sustainable global future. The University of Turku has granted the €30,000 Pentti Malaska Futures Award to Finnish company Woodio Oy.
The University of Turku opens the call for applications to the Pentti Malaska Futures Award on the national Futures Day on 5 March 2021. We are looking for bold, research-based, visionary, and boundary-crossing solutions supporting the building of a more sustainable global future.
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 University of Turku has granted the €30,000 Pentti Malaska Futures Award to the Finnish food tech company Solar Foods Oy.