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The '''Current events''' portal presents worldwide events in the field of Future Studies & Foresight. In particular, all the Mutual Learning Workshops organised during the [[Quality and Leadership for Romanian Higher Education]] project, implementing the concept of [[FORwiki:Bucharest Dialogues|Bucharest Dialogues]], are presented in this section of the [[FORwiki:Foresight Wiki|Foresight Wiki]]. You are invited to state your willingness to participate in these events.  
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The '''Current events''' portal presents worldwide events in the field of Future Studies & Foresight. In particular, all the Mutual Learning Workshops organised during the [[Quality and Leadership for Romanian Higher Education]] project, implementing the concept of [[FORwiki:Bucharest Dialogues|Bucharest Dialogues]], are presented in this section of the [[FORwiki:Foresight Wiki|Foresight Wiki]]. You are invited to state your willingness to participate in these events or cooperate for their organizing.
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But even more important, you are invited to have a pro-active attitude, and get involved in the events that are listed on the community's agenda. State your opinion in the "Discussion" pages! Help develop the event's concept, objectives, and programme!
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Current events

The Current events portal presents worldwide events in the field of Future Studies & Foresight. In particular, all the Mutual Learning Workshops organised during the Quality and Leadership for Romanian Higher Education project, implementing the concept of Bucharest Dialogues, are presented in this section of the Foresight Wiki. You are invited to state your willingness to participate in these events or cooperate for their organizing.

Past events

In preparation

Jointly Shaping and Launching the Foresight Wiki

Jointly Shaping and Launching the Foresight Wiki is a planned workshop, during which the Foresight Wiki will be officially launched. Prior to the event, each participant will put one Foresight case online within the Narratives portal. Each participant is welcomed to tell his/hers Foresight story in any way s/he think best to bring out the most interesting aspects. It is recommended to keep in mind that some readers may be interested in the outcomes of an exercise while others may rather want to know “how it was done”. In particular those practitioners who will use the experience to do something similar will most likely be interested in “what went wrong” and “lessons learned” at least as much as in success stories. (more...)

On the community's agenda

Integrating Futures Methodologies

Integrating Futures Methodologies is a workshop to be organized in Bucharest, coordinated by Prof. Ziauddin Sardar and Prof. George Cairns. Future studies and foresight have a rich store of methodologies – ranging from forecasting, scenario planning and trend analysis to Delphi, modelling, simulation, cross-impact analysis, early warning signals, weak signals, road maps, visioning, backcasting, casual layered analysis and integral futures, to mention just a few. ‘The State of the Future 2009’ report, from the Millennium Project, lists over 30 methods now being used in futures and foresight work. However, given the characteristics of contemporary times – where everything is seen to be connected to everything else, complexity and uncertainty is the norm, and there is an increasing tendency towards chaotic behaviour – no single method can provide us with an adequate way of perceiving alternative futures. We need approaches that encompass different and divergent perspectives, concerns of diverse groups and cultures, and contradictory desires, hopes and aspirations for the future. Moreover, futures work on complex and ambiguous – or intractable – problems requires an inter- and trans-disciplinary approach. (more...)


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