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

The Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas acknowledging the need to accelerate efforts to combat climate crisis and work towards the achievement of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) became member and partner of the EIT Climate Knowledge and Innovation Community (EIT Climate KIC). The EIT Climate KIC is funded by the European Institute of...Continue Reading

Minecraft is a video game that allows players to construct out of textured cubes a three-dimensional world. Activities include exploration, resource gathering, and creating. Microsoft acquired Minecraft in 2014, and it has since been ported to various platforms. Also, it is the best-selling video game of all time, with 200 million copies sold across all...Continue Reading

The COVID 19 pandemic constituted a major disruption worldwide having tremendous impact on the socio-economic fabric of many countries and regions. We share the belief that it is urgent not to allow COVID 19 dire socio-economic impact to derail climate action efforts and instead to treat it as an opportunity to reinforce resilience and adaptation...Continue Reading