Keyword: Finland Futures Research Centre (FFRC)
Association of Professional Futurists' award to Akhgar Kaboli and Petri Tapio
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.
Call for Papers: "Constructing Social Futures – Sustainability, Responsibility and Power”, 12.–13.6.2019, Turku
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.
New Research Project Brings Together Producers and Users of Knowledge for the Development of Growth Corridors
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.
25 Years of Exploring the Futures – Finland Futures Research Centre’s Research Activities Reviewed
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 intellectual biography published now also in English
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.
Finland Futures Research Centre and Funzi join forces in futures literacy mobile course for youth
The Get that future mobile course is developed based on the 25 years of experience that Finland Futures Research Centre, at the University of Turku, Finland holds in futures education. It delivers the benefits of latest research and best practices swiftly to large target audiences using mobile learning. The course has been created as part of the operations of the UNESCO Chair in Learning Society and Futures of Education.