Abstrakti valkoinen ja harmaa kolmiulotteinen muotoilu, jossa pallot ja mutkittelevat pinnat.

Futures Finland

We are a platform and network for foresight professionals.

Futures Finland brings together foresight practitioners and enthusiasts to share up-to-date information about futures studies and to develop futures thinking and its awareness.

From Network to Association.

Since 2012, Futures Finland has evolved from a small network into a large association of futures thinking professionals. Futures Finland has actively promoted the awareness of futures thinking in Finland.

Henkilö kirjoittaa käsin paperille, ympärillä papereita, liitu, ja erivärisiä kyniä pöydällä.

Mission

Our mission is to facilitate effortless co-development and promotion of high-quality futures thinking.

Mies katsoo kohti valkoisia valopalloja taustalla.

Vision

Our vision is that futures research and foresight do not need to justify themselves.

Henkilö esittelee diaesitystä, jossa on kaavio ja tekstiä, kuvitellen esitystilannetta. Dia sisältää otsikon 'Unique approaches are powerful together' ja alaotsikon 'Context (Futures Research) + People (Service Design)', sekä erilaista tekstiä ja osioita, kuten 'Scenarios Peste', 'Trends Weak Signals', ja 'What if Roadmap'.

Goals

Our goal is to foster seamless co-development among researchers, organizations, and stakeholders in futures thinking.

We advocate for awareness.

We make futures research and foresight easily accessible and understandable to a broader audience. We organize events for our members to discuss current information and future skills needed.

Network meetings and our social media accounts serve as platforms for discussions, sharing ideas, experimenting with new thoughts, presenting concepts, and workshops.

Information

The world is changing at an ever-accelerating pace. We organize events, such as company visits, keynotes, and author meetings,  for our members to increase their understanding of the changing operating environment. We also encourage our members to share information on our platforms and provide  places for sharing knowledge.

Skills

The world continues to evolve, and so do the methods and tools of futurists. We continuously scan the operating environment and remain open to new skills and tools, both from the perspective of the changing environment and our members who develop them. We organize training sessions in collaboration with our members.

Action

Our mission is the effortless co-creation and promotion of high-quality futures thinking. We make necessary initiatives, such as manifestos and statements, to serve the  field  and its development.

Nuori nainen hymyilee ystävällisesti katsoen kameraan, taustalla modernisti sisätila.

We are a part of Nordic Foresight Network.

Nordic Foresight Network is an initiative started by Futures Finland and Futures Sweden. While the idea's roots take us back to 2021, conversations materialized in official collaboration in early 2024.

It was decided to move forward and expand the discussion to include other Nordic countries to create a Nordic Foresight Network. This pioneering network aims to bring together forward-thinking individuals, organizations, and communities across the Nordic region to envision and shape our futures collaboratively. 

Kuvassa on paperinen kolmiulotteinen pallomalli, joka esittää Pohjoisnapaa ja sen ympäristöä, sekä teksti 'Futures Finland x Futures Sweden Nordic Foresight'.

We manifest futures.

Futures Finland's manifesto encapsulates our view on the significance of foresight and the role it should play in our society. We updated our manifesto in collaboration with our members in honor of our 10th anniversary in 2023.

  • The world is changing faster than ever. Hope, enthusiasm, and visions worth of pursuing are needed. Declared future goals and descriptions of target states are essential for political decision-making. We cannot succeed by merely repeating the present.

  • We are the first generation to fully understand the significance of the ecological crisis facing the planet and the last that can significantly impact the progress of climate change, the preservation of biodiversity, and the living conditions of future generations. The transformation to adapt to the planet's carrying capacity is not a transition of any color. Transformation should not be politicized; it is a pragmatic project. It is time for Finns to act.

  • Finland has societal and systemic potential to become a global test market for transformation. We can serve as a model and investment destination for the next generation of systems in areas such as transportation, logistics, energy, production methods, education, food production, and governance. Legislation must support this, and flexibility must be actively increased.

  • To ensure future orientation, well-prepared foresight information should be the basis for decision-making. Legislative proposals should be submitted for consultation to the parliamentary Committee for the Future e. The list of "Finland's hundred new opportunities" regarding radical technologies that reshape society must be maintained. Future government flagship projects should in some way correlate with this.

  • Education must be future-proof. Educational institutions must significantly expand their frameworks forward and prepare for the future. We cannot continue to raise new generations into systems that will no longer exist in their near future. The pressure of the transitional period on education is already strong. Foresight and future guidance expertise should be further disseminated to educational leadership and teaching staff.