As part of TechFuse, a strategic foresight (Foresight) workshop was held for the Municipality of Ioannina at the “C.Ioannina” open innovation space. Twenty participants highlighted the city’s future challenges, including environmental pollution and parking difficulties. Their insights fueled the Experimental Development Workshop of Ioannina (Hackathon), co-organized with the European Innovation Hub DigiGov and involving students...Continue Reading

A participatory exploration of the futures of fashion. MOMus – Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki and the Greece Node recently hosted the second pilot of the Fashion Futuring workshop, organized within the framework of the EU-funded Eyes of Europe project and bringing together foresight and design experts from across the network....Continue Reading

The newly released publication, “A European Model for Artificial Intelligence,” commissioned by the European Commission and developed by the Expert Group on the Economic and Societal Impact of Research and Innovation (ESIR). This paper offers insights into Europe’s potential to navigate structural challenges and opportunities within AI, highlighting the importance of fostering ethical standards, transparency,...Continue Reading

Epaminondas  Christophilopoulos co-designed and co-facilitated with C. Kavazanjian (UNESCO, Paris),  M. Packer (OECD/NEA, Paris), and with Cornelius Holtorf and Anders Högberg (UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures, Linnaeus University), the first Futures Literacy Laboratory in collaboration between UNESCO and OECD/NEA. Picture: Rebecca Tadesse, Head of Radioactive Waste Management and Decommissioning Division at OECD Nuclear Energy Agency,...Continue Reading

The Inspire project has been running at MOMus since 2012. In a fascinating anarchic creative environment, young artists are invited to create original artworks in one week under the guidance of an established artist. At the same time, curators are invited to set up the exhibition just hours before the official opening. As if the...Continue Reading

Is our strategy and business plan sustainable and resilient in the light of current trends and disruptive changes? This is the question that is often asked by executives of businesses and organisations.   A relatively simple, but effective method of testing the future-readiness of an organisation is to carry out a test in a suitably...Continue Reading

The Futures Literacy Cognitive Skills training was designed with a view to helping Net-zero Emissions Maritime Hubs Deep Demonstration Design Partners and Challenge Owners dig deeper into Futures Literacy capability so they can apply it in their own innovation work. The training covered important aspects related to how imagining futures relates to preparation and planning,...Continue Reading

On the 3rd and 4th of December 2020, the FLxDeep Consortium, represented by UNESCO Chair on Futures Research_ FORTH/PRAXI Network, in collaboration with the Regional Development Agency of West Macedonia (ANKO SA/Enterprise Europe Network) and the “C4SDGRows” Research Team of the Department of Journalism & Mass Communications of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, organized: An...Continue Reading

Androniki Papaterpou and Irianna Lianaki-Dedouli ‘Young people…are calling for change now…It is a call to live today in ways that are consistent with the values of freedom and resilience’ as Nicklas Larsen, Jeanette Kæseler Mortensen and Riel Miller write in their article titled “What Is ‘Futures Literacy’ and Why Is It Important?”.[1] It is true...Continue Reading

UNESCO Chair on Futures Research_FORTH/PRAXI Network joins the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF). WFSF, founded in 1973, has been a valuable UNESCO and UN consultative partner for several decades. The Federation is a global NGO with members in over 60 countries. WFSF brings together academics, researchers, practitioners, students and futures-focused institutions from all around the...Continue Reading