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Attending the 'Foresight Methods' Executive Education Course hosted by Manchester Institute of Innovation Research in partnership with VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd
Perhaps I shouldn’t be admitting this, but prior to September 2020 I had never even heard of foresight as a formal method for anything. It was also at this time that I joined VTT (Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd.) and started working on the PREDIS project which is a research and...
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COVID-19 as “wild card” driver of education and learning systems innovation
This blog discussed COVID-19 as an example of the necessity to foresee impacts of global trends and to address arising consequences to education and learning systems. I have recently engaged in two future-oriented investigations of impacts of global socio-economic and technological trends on...
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Computing the Human Brain
The Human Brain Project (HBP) is one of the most ambitious Flagship projects of the European Commission. With HBP, Europe aims not only to become a worldwide leader in understanding of the complexity of human brain - which has more than 80 billion neurons, linked to each other through, on...
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Why UF Observatory? Join the movement!
“I have a dream today” highlighted several times Martin Luther King in his landmark speech on the 28 th of April 1963. It was in the present that he had a desire to, through his dream, create a better future and reality for the upcoming generations. According to Godet (1994) a prospective...
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EU politicians caught asleep at the wheel
Over a decade ago the European Union invested around 1 million Euro to fund the iKnow project as one of the so-called Blue Sky forward-looking activities . The project aimed at interconnecting Knowledge on issues and developments potentially shaking or shaping the future of science,...
