Events Archive

FEN Demo Hour on Dreams and Disruption

The next Demo Hour meeting organized by the Foresight Europe Network will take place on Thursday, July 11, 2024, from 15:00 to 16:30 CEST.
During the meeting, Shermon O. Cruz, Chair of the Philippines Node of The Millennium Project and founder of the Center for Engaged Foresight, will demonstrate the Dreams and Disruptions Foresight Game in an interactive session.

Dreams and Disruptions is not just a game; it’s a dynamic foresight and imagination platform designed to stimulate your creativity, challenge your assumptions and encourage you to think beyond the present. Whether you’re a visionary thinker, an advanced or aspiring futurist, a creative problem solver or simply curious about what’s on the horizon, this game offers a unique opportunity to engage with fellow participants in an immersive and intellectually stimulating environment. Get ready to shatter norms and envision radical futures in our Dreams and Disruptions Foresight Game session.

The session is free and open to members and non-members. Please register in advance at: https://rb.gy/yw71yu
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information on how to join the session.

FEN Demo Hour is a space where FEN members and Europe’s foresight community share and learn from each other’s approaches to foresight and futures work. Share your method or tool in the upcoming FEN Demo Hours! Simply claim your date on this Google Doc & or reach out to the FEN Leadership.

Watch the recording of the session: https://youtu.be/tmmmUm8I_z4

FEN Summer 2024 Meeting

On June 12, 2024, the leadership team of FEN is organizing an in-person meeting, 2-4pm – Wednesday, 12 June 2024 in Turku, Finland. This FEN Summer 2024 Meeting will precede the Futures Conference 2024 hosted by Finland Futures Research Centre and LUKE, which happens Thursday-Friday, 13-14 June.

The Agenda of the meeting is the following:

• Welcoming Remarks (5 minutes): Nicolas Balcom Raleigh, FEN President
• Icebreaker (10 minutes): Lena Tünkers, FEN Future President
• Presentations: (40 minutes)
  • Eye of Europe project and Futures 4 Europe platform: Dr. Radu Gheorghiu, Institutul de Prospectiva (Romania)
  • Updates from The Millennium Project Executive Director and Co-Founder Jerome Glenn & Deputy Director Ibon Zugasti
  • Parliamentary/National Committees for Future: Dr. Sofi Kurki, VTT (Finland)
• Group Discussions (30 minutes) & Plenary (20 minutes): FEN members discuss emergent topics sparked by the presentations.
• Closing Remarks (10 minutes): Lena Tünkers, FEN Future President

More information are available at https://futuresconference2024.com/side-events/120624-fen/

FEN Demo Hour on Processes of Spatial Justice and Political Urbanism

The next Demo Hour by FEN will take place on Thursday, 4:00-5:30 PM CET on March 21, 2024. The meeting will be focused on “Processes of spatial justice and political urbanism” and will host our FEN member Ana Povoas, researcher at Université libre de Bruxelles.

Emerging from more than a decade of research in geography and political studies, spatial justice is a toolset that enables to make explicit the divergences that exist among citizens in any given topic related to our habitat. It thus enables the construction of future scenarios and policies where convergence and compromise are built from a place of explicitness and non-violent communication.

The meeting is free and open to non-members. Sign-up here: https://rb.gy/pm72c0

FEN Demo Hour is a space where FEN members and Europe’s foresight community share and learn from each other’s approaches to foresight and futures work.

FEN Demo Hour on Applied Futures

The next Demo Hour by FEN will take place on Thursday, 17:00-18:30 CET on Jan. 25th 2024. FEN member Jacob Langvad Nilsson will present his newly developed futures method Applied Futures.

Applied Futures is a framework for integrating strategic foresight into immediate practice. The framework combines the best of futures studies with design thinking. Engage in a workshops to learn how to shape the future of your company, and of our planet.

The registration link to attend the event is https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkcuuvpjIvG9KDCvxrXk0i6K0518tf97hk

For more information on Applied Futures, visit https://appliedfutures.io/

FEN Demo Hour on Experience FuturGov Game

The next FEN Demo Hour will be held on December 7, 2023, from 16:00 – 17:30 CET.

The meeting will be focused on Experience FuturGov Game, a speculative policy dialogue tool, developed at the EU Policy Lab. Meet the game authors and explore new government models, power relations and discuss policy proposals in a scenario role play.

To join the session, please pre-register through the following link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMsd-2sqzovEtOHFKUGUmcbGaM8fC2H0sst

Further information at the following links:

• FuturGov Game | Knowledge for policy (europa.eu)
• Playable Policy Design: The FuturGov Game as Means to Negotiate Future-Situated Policy Options * Journal of Futures Studies (jfsdigital.org)

FEN Demo Hour on Imagination and Feminist Futures

The next FEN Demo Hour will be held on November 16, 2023, from 16:00 – 17:30 CET.

FEN member Thays Prado is professional storyteller, documentary filmmaker, and gender expert and invites the FEN community to expand our imagination beyond what we already know to co-create stories from feminist futures.

To join the session, please pre-register through the following link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMudemvpz8pGN1gPUqXreTWZmR1C1xuWVPs

Watch the recording of the session.

FEN Demo Hour on DATTOPIAS

On September 14th, 2023, from 16:00 to 17:30 CEST, FEN will be hosting an intriguing Demo Hour.

FEN member Jocelyn Ibarra, founder and design lead at The Time Travel Agency, will take us to DATTOPIAS which are uncommon alternative narratives that are realistic and optimistic; that explore advancements in technology, societal changes, well-being, environmental improvements, and other positive developments. These narratives show us the everyday of the human experience and the ways in which society has adapted to overcome challenges. Come and see how DATTOPIAS are used for organizations that need to adapt to survive.

Same drill as always, please pre-register and share if you wish: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYpd-qtqTItGtNAf86ylvBwnT0Ncl_vDvYX#/registration

FEN Demo Hour is a space where FEN members and Europe’s foresight community share and learn from each other’s approaches to foresight and futures work. They are held monthly. Thus, if you would like to demonstrate a method or tool, please claim your date on this Google sheet.

FEN Demo Hour on Scalable Fuirt Workshops

On August 17th, 2023, from 16:00 to 17:30 CEST, our regional Node FEN – Foresight Europe Network, will be hosting its monthly Demo Hour on Scalable Fruit Workshops.

In the spirit of Demo Hour’s first network collaboration effort, FEN member Amos Taylor, Project Researcher at Finland Futures Research Centre, will share his ideas about cultivating support networks with a method called ‘scalable fruit workshops’. Rather than the continuous strategic extraction of information, he suggests turning to the collective benefit of workshops and utilizing networks, both formal and non-formal.

What does working together mean to you?

Same drill as always, please pre-register and share if you wish: https://forms.gle/RFrEsybKfFnW519C6

FEN Demo Hour is a space where FEN members and Europe’s foresight community share and learn from each other’s approaches to foresight and futures work. They are held monthly. Thus, if you would like to demonstrate a method or tool, please claim your date on this Google sheet.

FEN Demo Hour on Design Futures

FEN Demo Hours, the online monthly series organized by the Foresight Europe Network, is at its 3rd meeting and will present the work of a new FEN member on Thursday 20th July 2023, from 15.00 to 16.30 UTC+1.

Tobias Revell is Design Futures Lead at Arup University‘s Foresight faculty where he leads on innovative and critical design processes and drives and advocates for design across the organization. He will let us peek into Arup Foresight’s design-led approach which goes beyond the application to projects and is used for speculation, knowledge creation, and research purposes amongst others.

Anyone can attend based on their interests but pre-registration is required: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkc-yhqTMpH9Oq2xozPyc6XPfjh8T8W9Qg

Foresight Europe Network (FEN) Meeting

Open invitation to Foresight Europe Network (FEN) Meeting on 16 June, 2023, organized as a parallel online session of the upcoming conference on Empowering Futures

Foresight Europe Network brings together foresight practitioners, users, educators, researchers, students, and others doing futures work. Our goal is to know about each other and enable connections.

Setting
This meeting starts 30 minutes after the closing of Futures Conference 2023, hosted by Finland Futures Research Centre at University of Turku.

Who is invited
This meeting is open to all, even if you are not already a member of FEN. If you have an interest in foresight and its development in Europe, you are welcome! Registration at Futures Conference 2023 or membership in FEN is not required to attend.

Location
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81385228216?pwd=R2o4ZG9SSjR0S1haRzlOV2k0Z1AyQT09
Passcode: 080378

Agenda* – 90 minutes

Opening Remarks – Nicolas Balcom Raleigh, FEN President – 5 Minutes
FEN Member Meet and Greet in Small Groups – 15 Minutes
Workshop: The Millennium Project’s Global Challenges and Europe’s perspective on them – 40 Minutes
Self-Selected Groups – One Zoom room will be available per Challenge.
FEN Network and the EC JRC’s Framework Tender – 20 minutes
Closing Remarks – Lena Tuenkers, FEN VP Future President – 10 minutes

* Agenda is subject to minor changes.

Organisers:

FEN Leadership Team:
Nick Balcom Raleigh, FEN President
Lena Tuenkers, FEN VP (Future President)
Christofilopoulos Epaminondas, FEN VP (Past President)
Mara Di Berardo, FEN Communications Officer

FEN Demo Hour on on Real-Time Spatial Delphi Platform

FEN Demo Hour – the new online monthly series organized by the Foresight Europe Network, regional Node of the Millennium Project – goes into the second round and will be held on Thursday 18th May 2023 from 15.00 to 16.30 UTC+1.

FEN members Simone Di Zio, Co-Chair of the Italy Node of The Millennium Project, & Yuri Calleo will present and demonstrate their new Real-Time Spatial Delphi digital platform to facilitate spatial consensus for complex scenarios and policy development. Attendance is free and open to anyone interested in foresight, but pre-registration is required to attend this virtual event.

FEN Demo Hours allow FEN members and Europe’s foresight community to share and explore each other’s approaches to foresight and futures work. Each FEN Demo Hour, an individual or small group of FEN members volunteers to present a foresight tool or method they have created or adapted. Anyone can attend based on their interests. The intention is to learn from each other and discuss how our field is developing.

Sign-up to second FEN Demo Hour: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpcOiqqDItG9d-btpceLKFVbhfAgfyEKH1#/registration

FEN DEMO HOUR – April 13, 2023

The idea of Demo Hours is to share methods and approaches within the FEN community and thus broadening our horizons of foresight practices. Demo Hours will run monthly and will be curated by the community. The first FEN Demo Hour will take place online on the 13. of April 2023 from 15:00 to 16:30 UTC+1.

In this first session, we have the honor to learn from Anna & Kacper at 4CF The Futures Literacy Company, Poland Node of The Millennium Project, about the 4CF FLEx gamebooks. It’s a novel foresight tool that allows scenario-users to immerse themselves in an interactive scenario experience. What it is in detail and how we can apply it will be presented during the session. If this sparks your interest, please register in advance through the following link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIucOqpqT8iGNNi-nnz7gjeroXJVcslcIAT

Do you or your organisation have a method or tool you would like to demonstrate? FEN Demo Hours are a great way to show off your latest and greatest with foresight colleagues. Many dates are still available. You can claim your date on this Google sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AeahZ8GajHtOyqXI_rxBqUQza1X6JTGcUpZj_oIO1YY/edit?usp=sharing

For information, please contact Lena Tünkers, FEN Vice President, at hi@lenatuenkers.com.

FEN Meeting at the Futures Conference – June 15, 2022

Agenda
Wednesday 15th June (10 am – 12:30 pm) Time zone EEST (UTC +3)
Virtual Meeting: Please register here: https://forms.gle/ivmjkoPn9aRwRW549

1st Session (60’) – #OurFutures: Images for the future of Europe
10:00 – 10:10 Welcome & introduction to FEN – Epaminondas CHRISTOFILOPOULOS, FORTH-PRAXI (10’)
10:10 – 10:40 Making sense of turbulent times – how can foresight actions help? check-in discussions in small groups (30’)
10:40 – 10:45 Report back in chat (5’)
10:45 – 11:00 Update on Our Common Futures project – Erica BOL, JRC (12’)
UN Common Agenda and the Millennium Project RealTime Delphi – Jerome C. GLENN, THE MILLENNIUM PROJECT (3’)

2nd Session (75′) – The Future of V4 and EU in 2030: Sustainable Innovation Pathways towards post-COVID recovery
11:00 – 11:10 Trends, enablers, blockers of sustainable development: results of the Delphi survey and EU development scenarios – Anna SACIO-SZYMAŃSKA, 4CF The Futures Literacy Company (10′)
11:10-11:15 Explaining group exercise
11:15:12:00 Group exercise: Development pathways for the V4 region in the context of EU development scenarios (45′)
12:00 – 12:15 Report back (15′)

Summary session (15′)
12:15 – 12:25 Update on membership process – Nicolas BALCOM-RALEIGH, Finland Futures Research Centre (10′)
12:25 – 12:30 Wrap-up and farewell – Epaminondas CHRISTOFILOPOULOS, FORTH-PRAXI

Download full agenda in .pdf: https://futuresconference2022.files.wordpress.com/2022/05/fen-agenda-15062022.pdf

To maximize the possibility for our members across Europe to attend, this meeting will only be held online.
The FEN meeting is free but registration is needed. To attend, please register here: https://forms.gle/ivmjkoPn9aRwRW549
The meeting is organized by the Foresight Europe Network in collaboration with the Millennium Project, the V4 2030 project, and co-funded by the Visegrad Fund.

Contact Information (meeting)
Anna SACIO-SZYMAŃSKA
FEN Vice-President
e-mail to: V42030@4cf.pl
https://4cf.pl/en/visegrad2030/

Contact Information (FEN)
Mara DI BERARDO
FEN Communication Officer
e-mail to: info@feneu.org
https://feneu.org

FEN meeting at the 24th WFSF conference – Oct. 29, 2021

A second Foresight Europe Network annual meeting will take place in October 29, 2021, from 4 pm to 5.30 pm (CET) in Berlin, as a side event of the 24th World Futures Studies Federation Conference of which FEN is partner.

Join the meeting to learn about foresight activity in Europe, meeting foresight collegues and sharing ideas for future foresight work.

The agenda of the FEN meeting is the following:

4.00, Welcome, Epaminondas Christophilopoulos, FEN President
4.15, Keynote Speech,
‘Fostering long-termism as a lever for systems change and climate action: Roles of futures literacy and foresight, Marco Carreira Silva, Innovation Coordinator, Long-Terminism Deep Demonstration, EIT Climate-KIC
4.35 pm, Interactive Activity, #OurFutures project (JRC), Wendy Schultz & Epaminondas Christophilopoulos
5.00 pm, Discussion in smaller groups: What foresight actions could we undertake to promote long-termism among leaders and citizens?
4.30 pm, End of Meeting

Register at https://forms.gle/LkJmx4n6a2VA6K3V6

Discover more about the 24th WFSF conference at https://wfsfconferenceberlin2021.org/

Foresight Europe Network (FEN) Annual Meeting 2021

 

Learn about foresight activity in Europe, meet other foresight makers, and share your ideas for future foresight work. Free and open to all.

 

Agenda

14:00 Welcome: Epaminondas Christophilopoulos, FEN President

14.10 Key Note Speech:”A Renaissance of Strategic Foresight:  Opportunities for the Road Ahead” ,  Jake Sotiriadis, Chief, Strategic Foresight and Futures Branch, US Air Force

14.25 Key Note Speech: Riyong Kim, Head of Natural Capital and Ecosystems, Programme at European Environment Agency

14.40 Small Group Discussions (3–5 participants per group)

15.10 Breakout groups reports (2–3 min per group)

15.30 Jerome C. Glen, Co-Founder and CEO, The Millennium Project

15.45–16.00 Closure: Nick Balcom Raleigh, FEN Vice-President

Check out the recording of the keynote speeches:

 

INVITATION: FEN annual virtual meeting

Special focus will be drawn upon the newly published, by the European Commission, first Annual Strategic Foresight Report:charting the course towards a more resilient Europe, while over 25 FEN members will provide updates on current initiatives around Europe. The meeting will conclude with the three keynote speeches providing global outlook to the European context of the meeting.

For the agenda of the event and Zoom links, please click here.

The EC report can be found here: https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/strategic_foresight_report_2020_1.pdf

We look forward to welcoming you at the FEN annual meeting.

FEN Team

FEN-meeting in Poland

FEN-meeting in Florence

The meeting will take place in Florence, November 8th, from 10 am to 5 pm. As always, we aim to create an opportunity for foresight practitioners from Europe to network with each other, learn from each other, and develop shared activities. We feel we have put together a great programme, for example including inputs from the EU-JRC foresight team (Fabiana Scapolo / Eckhard Störmer) and Dr. Emanuele Fabbri, Tuscany Region. I would already like to thank them as well as all others who are contributing, and especially our hosts ValueDo for providing such a great location.

More info on the agenda and practical matters (hotel options, locations etc.) are attached, as well as our general info on FEN. There will also be a dinner on that day and the evening before.

In order to proceed with the preparation, we need feedback from you (it will only take 2mins): 

If you will attend the meeting, please register here: https://doodle.com/poll/v6ettr2i2d4bznwq

You’re welcome to also share the invitation with colleagues who might be interested (please just make sure they register), and we hope many of you can join us!

With kind regards,
Cornelia Daheim

Futures Studies Tackling Wicked Problems

“Futures Studies Tackling Wicked Problems” is an international forum for the philosophies, methods, ideas and concrete examples to find out what is going on in the field of futures research, education and action. The aim is to harness the views of preferable futures and methods for reaching them. The participants in the conference will work collaboratively discussing research, initiatives and projects to gather various views and compose ideas to face future challenges.

The conference will consist of keynote lectures, parallel sessions and participatory workshops. Our aim is to generate multidisciplinary, lively and productive discussions, as well as promote networking among participants from different backgrounds. In this conference the tradition meets new ways of participation: academia meeting activism and experience meeting enthusiasm.

For more information please visit:
https://futuresconference2015.wordpress.com/

II. Foresight Europe Network – FEN meeting

Members of the new European foresight initiative – Europe Foresight Network (FEN) will gather in Turku, Finland, to discuss European Millennium Project nodes futuristic activities and future FEN activities. Thematic workshops will cover presentations and discussion on:

• Future Work and Tech Study of the Millennium Project,
• Futures Studies research quality,
• Futures Studies and regional development,
• European Union Horizon 2020, and
• The Future of Europe.

Houston University Certificate in Strategic Foresight

The Strategic Foresight program is offered as a 5-day, project-based, face-to-face workshop.

Participants learn to anticipate disruptive change and work towards the creation of transformational change, in order to influence the future of their organizations, companies and communities.

Participants will receive 4 CEUs for attending, and can obtain the certificate if they complete a project within a given number of weeks after the program delivery.

Providing professionals with tools to help navigate today’s constantly changing business environment and create a positive future for their communities, regions, enterprises and themselves.

For more information please visit:
http://www.institut-destree.eu/Reseaux/Houston-University_Strategic-Foresight.htm

ceeeGov Days 2015

A new European extra-territorial data protection regulation forthcoming, Germany’s leading Internet Service Providers implementing national Internet routing, France and Germany calling for a “European Internet”, … These are just some of the responses to a seemingly endless flow of revelations of privacy violations and intrusive activities from outside (and at times inside) the European Union. But how can such a “Europeanized” Internet work, what are the political, technical, legal and organizational challenges? And if it is feasible – is it also desirable or rather a detriment to economy and innovation? What are the repercussions on government infrastructure and digital services already in place?

For more information please visit:
http://eeegov.ocg.at/