Building Global Capacity for Futures Literacy
This year Futures Day was celebrated on Friday March 6th, 2020 all across Finland. The theme of the day focused on power over the future (tulevaisuusvalta) and desired futures – utopias. The future is co-created together and we all have power to influence our joint future. Futures Day invited everyone to join a virtual Council …
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Futures literacy practioners from all over the world gathered for the Global Futures Literacy Design Forum held at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris on December 16th-17th, 2019. The forum brought together global network of experts working on promoting futures literacy in their respective countries. Experiences of promoting futures literacy were heard from across Europe, China, …
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Written by Laura Pouru The Global Futures Literacy network – consisting of eight UNESCO Chairs and a group of experts – met at the University of Trento in Italy on June 19-21, 2019 for the first international symposium of UNESCO Chairs in anticipatory systems, futures studies and futures literacy. The symposium was organized as the …
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On March 1st, 2019 Futures Day was celebrated in Finland in more than 70 registered events and numerous unregistered events including e.g. the National Parliament, several companies, schools, municipalities, museums, libraries and all kinds of communities around Finland. Futures Day also emerged as the most talked about topic in Finnish Twitter with more than 650 …
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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 …
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We are proud to announce we have finally launched the The Get That Future Lab: Futures Literacy Program for Youth, which we have been developing together with the mobile learning company Funzi. The program is a blended learning program for educational institutions for youth, namely high schools and vocational institutions. It has been constructed to …
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Written by Laura Pouru The themes of futures literacy and futures thinking were strongly present at the this year’s Dare to Learn -learning festival, held on September 18th-19th in Helsinki.
Written by Laura Pouru & Markku Wilenius About 40 representatives from academia, education administration and schools gathered to a morning session on the Future of Futures Literacy in Finland organized by UNESCO, Finnish National Board of Education and Finland Futures Research Centre on June 15th, 2018.
