WORLD FUTURES STUDIES FEDERATION

APF Foresight Evaluation Task Force Report

Victor Vahidi Motti — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 15:22:58 +0000

The APF Foresight Evaluation Task Force is pleased to provide its Report, Building Field and Foresight Practitioner Evaluation Capacity. Drawing on the broad and deep expertise of 24 Task Force members—foresight practitioners, evaluators, and corporate and public sector representatives— the Report provides insights into evaluating the quality of foresight and its impacts, and recommendations for evaluation capacity-building resources. Click here to download the full report.

Books in Ukrainian

Victor Vahidi Motti — Tue, 09 May 2023 12:33:35 +0000

Ukranian Language Futures Books Сухорольський, Петро (2021). Основи футурології: монографія, Видавництво “Апріорі”

GLOBAL FUTURES OF CLIMATE – Jennifer Gidley, PhD

Victor Vahidi Motti — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 00:42:57 +0000

This is a self-paced course about the environmental challenges we face and what we can do about them. In brief, the course includes 12 lessons across three themes: Each theme has two lessons addressing the challenges, and two lessons addressing the alternatives. Overview Please watch this video for an overview of the course, how it is structured, what you can expect to gain, and a bit more about the course designer, Professor Jennifer Gidley, PhD. For 8 years she was President of the World Futures Studies Federation, which is a UNESCO partner and the global peak body for futures scholars across 60 countries. The Global Futures Courses not only draw on her work as an international futurist, but also on her 40 years’ experience as a psychologist, educator and academic. Enrolment: Click here to enrol in this course.

Where are we in History?

Victor Vahidi Motti — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 19:25:30 +0000

Reflections on the New Core Work of the 21st Century Preface Introduction Section I: Where are we who are MTI in History Section II: Two Useful Mental Models Section III: Using these Two Mental Models to Explore the Question: “Where are we who are MTI in history?” Section IV: But what if we are wrong? Section V: The Adventure of the Exodus that Awaits Us

WFSF-UNESCO

Bing — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 13:32:04 +0000

WFSF Members participate in UNESCO International Expert Meetings.
UNESCO Participation Program has funded several WFSF projects.
Joint WFSF-UNESCO publications include: "The Futures of Culture" Series (1990-1993) by Eleonora B. Masini, WFSF President (1981-1990).
World Futures Learning Lab (LEALA) is a UNESCO Participation Program project approved in 2012-2013 with pilots in DR Congo, Cairo and Penang, and approved in 2014-2015 for pilots in Haiti, Mexico and the Philippines.

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Books from the 21st Century

Bing — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 06:45:03 +0000

English Futures Books from the 21st Century

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Futures Publications – Books

Bing — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 04:15:44 +0000

WFSF has been developing a resource list of books about futures studies in several languages (English, Hebrew, Hungarian, Spanish and Portuguese, Swedish and Farsi). The English books cover the time period from the pre-1950s up to the present time.

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Futures Publications – Journals

Bing — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 02:45:44 +0000

As the academic field of futures studies has developed several academic journals have been founded, the first being Futures: The Journal of Policy, Planning and Futures Studies, first published in 1968.

There are several peer-reviewed academic and professional journals dedicated to reporting, discussing and analysing issues of relevance to futures researchers, practitioners and students. There are also some futures-oriented magazines below. The lists are arranged alphabetically.

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Accreditation Services

Victor Vahidi Motti — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 02:51:02 +0000

The World Futures Studies Federation offers its standards to institutions interested in achieving accreditation in futures studies. Institutions offering programmes which meet the Federation’s standards will be credentialed as an Accredited Foresight Programme. Accreditation will extend for a period of five (5) years. Review of accreditation will be available every five (5) years to ensure programmes continue to maintain high quality standards of the Federation. The World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF) is an international non-profit and non-governmental organization, operating under international law. It was founded in 1973 to promote the development of futures studies as an academic discipline. Beyond offering membership to individuals and institutions over the years, the Executive Board of the Federation has considered how foresight programmes in tertiary education might be further strengthened through an external quality assurance process. Currently no entity exists at the tertiary level to recognize, evaluate and accredit foresight education programmes. Given the history and reputation of the Federation and being a peak body in futures research, the WFSF offers the accreditation of foresight education programmes assuring their quality. In 2018 the Federation established a set of standards and guidelines for quality assurance in higher education. These accreditation standards deal with the Mission, Faculty, Curriculum, Instruction, Students, and Resources that undergird foresight programmes offered by universities, colleges and schools. Those tertiary education institutions offering programmes which meet the minimum standards outlined by the Board are afforded recognition by the WFSF as offering an Accredited Foresight Programme. Academic Mission of the Federation The Federation ...

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WFSF World Conferences

Bing — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 02:50:04 +0000

WFSF has been holding World Conferences around the globe for 40 years in such diverse places as: France, Germany, former Yugoslavia, Poland, Egypt, Sweden, Costa Rica, Hawai’I, China, Hungary, Spain, Finland, Kenya, Australia, the Philippines, Romania, Japan. WFSF held its 21st World Conference in Bucharest, Romania in 2013 and celebrated its 40th Anniversary at that event. This honoured Bucharest as the site of the important pre-founding WFSF meeting held in 1972.

2017

WFSF XXII World Conference & General Assembly

HUMANKIND 2050: Peace * Development * Environment

June 7-10, 2017, Jondal, Norway in partnership with the Hardangar Academy for Peace, Development, Environment.

Above Image is the magnificant Hardangar Fjord near Jondal were the Conference will be held.

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WFSF Magazines

Bing — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 02:49:54 +0000

HUMAN FUTURES: A Publication of the World Futures Studies Federation

WFSF has published a magazine since its inception - since even before the organisation was formally constituted. The WFSF magazine has gone through several iterations, changing its name and style with the changing times over nearly five decades. We have just launched a new version of the WFSF magazine.

HUMAN FUTURES was launched on 23 December 2016 and is a fresh & contemporary, interactive, online magazine. Each issue will be loosely themed, with the first issue featuring some really exciting and innovative futures work by several of our younger WFSF members. Let us know if you want to contribute.

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WFSF Regional Meetings & Partnered Events

Bing — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 02:48:04 +0000

WFSF has co-convened many regional conferences, meetings & workshops.

WFSF Regional meetings have been held in Indonesia, Mexico City, USA, China, Japan, Pakistan, Russia, Iceland and Europe.

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WFSF Iberoamerican Chapter

Bing — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 02:44:15 +0000

3 December 2023 I am pleased to send you the information about the 46 events that we held in 2023 in the Prospective Studies Seminar supported by the Latin American vice presidency of the WFSF. There were conferences, two book presentations and two tributes to recognized prospectivists in Mexico. Eight countries in the region and five states in Mexico were connected. The presentations are on the page that appears in the report and can be downloaded freely. Guillermina Baena Paz, PhD Vice-President Latin America World Futures Studies Federation WFSF Programme Accreditation Council Member Iberophone Hub lead, Mexico City 24 November 2023 31 March 2023 7 January 2023 NEWS 2022 FROM VICE PRESIDENCY OF LATIN AMERICAN REGION WFSF I am pleased to inform you that during the year 2022 we had 44 weekly events convened by the Prospective Studies Seminar and the WFSF Regional Vice-Presidency for Latin America on my behalf. It was an important experience since we opened the Seminar on a regional basis and we have had participants from at least seven countries in the region in addition to those carried out by the International Seminar on prospective training (with technical support from the Universidad del Cuyo in Argentina) We had an average weekly attendance of about 40 attendees on a constant basis and one hundred registered who are informed weekly and register on the subject of their interest. As an added value, we have the materials on the page of the Faculty of Political Sciences with free access ...

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FUTURES STUDIES IN THE EUROPEAN EX SOCIALIST COUNTRIES

Victor Vahidi Motti — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 16:51:08 +0000

Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, USSR/Russia Yugoslavia Edited byErzsébet Nováky, Viorica Ramba Varga, Mária Kalas Kőszegi

Books in Finnish

Victor Vahidi Motti — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 14:25:07 +0000

Finnish Language Futures Books Aalto, Hanna-Kaisa – Heikkilä, Katariina – Keski-Pukkila, Pasi – Mäki, Maija & Pöllänen, Markus (toim.) (2022) Tulevaisuudentutkimus tutuksi – Perusteita ja menetelmiä. Tulevaisuudentutkimuksen Verkostoakatemian julkaisuja 1/2022, Tulevaisuuden tutkimuskeskus, Turun yliopisto. 481 s. https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-249-563-1. Also available at https://tulevaisuus.fi/oppikirja-2022/ Pouru, Laura – Minkkinen, Matti – Auffermann, Burkhard – Rowley, Christopher – Malho, Maria & Neuvonen, Aleksi (2020) Kansallinen ennakointi Suomessa. Valtioneuvoston selvitys- ja tutkimustoiminnan julkaisusarja 2020:17. Valtioneuvoston kanslia, Helsinki, http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-287-948-6. Pouru, Laura ‒ Wilenius, Markku ‒ Holstius, Karin & Heinonen, Sirkka (2017) Pentti Malaska – ennalta näkijä, edellä kulkija. Tulevaisuussarja 8, Tulevaisuuden tutkimuksen seura, Helsinki, 296 s. https://www.tutuseura.fi/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Tulevaisuussarja8_Pentti-Malaska.pdf Kuusi, Osmo – Bergman, Timo & Salminen, Hazel (toim.) (2013) Miten tutkimme tulevaisuuksia? Acta Futura Fennica No 5. Tulevaisuuden tutkimuksen seura ry, Helsinki. Kamppinen, Matti – Kuusi, Osmo & Söderlund, Sari (toim.) (2002) Tulevaisuudentutkimus. Perusteet ja sovellukset. Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran Toimituksia 896. Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, Helsinki.