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1 HELSINKI NODE ACTIVITIES AND NEW PLANS Prof. Sirkka Heinonen Millennium Project Planning Committee Meeting Mexico City 9th 10th October 2017 Finland Futures Research Centre (FFRC)/University of Turku

2 HELSINKI NODE OF THE MILLENNIUM PROJECT CO-CHAIRS CHAIRS Osmo Kuusi Adjunct professor Aalto University Toni Ahlqvist Professor University of Oulu Sari Söderlund Education Developer, FFRC Juha Kaskinen Sirkka Heinonen Dr., Director of FFRC Professor, FFRC

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4 HELSINKI NODE ACTIVITIES Disseminating information on Millennium Project Future of Work/Technology 2050 Scenarios Co-Operation between Nodes

5 NEW REPORTS, EVENTS, INTERVIEWS with MP connections Clean Disruption > report published Oct 2016: Chile foresight seminar & Futures Clinique & Report March 2017: Anticipation Conference at Trento University April 2017: Tokyo NISTEP April 2017: Urban Studies Days with Geci May 2017: Helsinki Steinmuller Clinique & Report RIBRI project (by Osmo Kuusi) started June 2017 Turku FFRC Conference & FEN workshop and meeting August 2017: Master s Programme in Futures Studies Mr. Parviainen from Finnish Committee for the Future in Global Platform for Youth in Spain FEN joint project plans Energy Conference in Tampere 2018

6 COMMITTEE FOR THE FUTURE, FINNISH PARLIAMENT Presentations incl. Millennium Project given by Sari Söderlund as the senior advisor of the Committee for the Future, Finnish Parliament: 1. A presentation about the Committee for the Future and other national and international scientific and development societies (incl. MP) and expert knowledge, to the foreign EU project partners of the Regional Council of Uusimaa, Helsinki, Dec. the 20th, Presentations about the Committee for the Future and other national and international futures studies scientific and development societies (incl. MP), to the civil servant visitors of the Finnish parliament from Kazakhstan (visitors of the Finnish parliament, Helsinki), Estonia (visitors of Sitra, Helsinki, March 27, 2017) and South-Korea (visitors of the Finnish parliament, Helsinki), during winter term "Framework for anticipation and participation Committee for the Future at Finnish parliament - Systems of social anticipation and influences in the future, Summer Course of the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain 4 July, Member of the Committee Mr Parviainen in Spain with Jerry et co Sept 2017

7 Heinonen, Sirkka Karjalainen, Joni Parkkinen, Marjukka & Ruotsalainen, Juho (2017) Co Operation with the Venezuelan Node Clean Disruption Symposium produced the PUBLICATION: Clean Disruption for Abundant Futures Neo-Carbon Energy Futures Clinique III FFRC ebook 2/2017, Finland Futures Research Centre, University of Turku, 114 p. ISBN , ISSN sut/etutu/documents/ebook_ pdf Summer School of FFA Incl an interview of

8 CHILEAN FORESIGHT CONFERENCE Santiago Oct 2016 Co Operation with the Chilean Node

9 + NEO-CARBON FUTURES QLINIQUE IV What Opportunities For Chile? Santiago Monday 24 th Oct 2016 The Chilean Intellectual Property Institute INAPI OPENING WORDS BY SERGIO BITAR (FORMER MINISTER OF MINING; EDUCATION), ENERGY AND INNOVATION EXPERTS FROM CHILE, INCL. FINPRO.

10 Working in the Neo-Carbon Energy Futures Clinique Neo-Carbon Energy Futures Clinique in Santiago 24 th Oct 2016

11 Neo-Carbon Energy Futures Clinique in Santiago 24 th Oct 2016 Using Futures Wheel

12 Neo-Carbon Energy Futures Clinique in Santiago 24 th Oct 2016 From left to right: Joni Karjalainen, Noora Vähäkari, Linda Nerg, Sirkka Heinonen and Sergio Bitar in the Neo-Carbon Energy Futures Clinique

13 Neo-Carbon Energy Futures Clinique in Santiago 24 th Oct 2016 Sergio Bitar, Héctor H Casanueva (Chilean Node) & Francisco Mojica (Colombian Node)

14 PUBLICATION Heinonen, Sirkka Vähäkari, Noora & Karjalainen, Joni (2017) Neo-Carbon Energy World What Opportunities for Chile? Neo-Carbon Energy Futures Clinique IV. FFRC ebook 3/2017, Finland Futures Research Centre, University of Turku. 63 p. ISBN , ISSN ot/ffrc/julkaisut/etutu/documents/ebook_ pdf

15 Foresight Seminar Program at NISTEP, Tokyo JAPAN MONDAY 24th April Link: (lecture 1 hr)

16 JAPAN Meeting with Japanese Node on future developments of the Node Ms Sungjoo Ogino Co Operation with the Japanese Node

17 URBAN STUDIES DAYS Helsinki, House of Sciences April 2017 Osmo Kuusi and Sirkka Heinonen in the organising committee (Finnish Society for Futures Studies, Society for Urban and Regional Planning & Urban Studies Society) Geci Karuri-Sebina as keynote speaker (South African Cities Network and Millennium Node) Co Operation with the African Node

18 Neo-Carbon Futures Clinique V Sitra 17 th May 2017 On Surprising Energy Futures Comments by Jarno Limnéll, prof of cybersecurity MP Scenarios of Work/Technology 2050 Post Black Swans Cross- Impact Analysis Workshop: 18th May 2017 in FFRC Helsinki Office with Dr Karlheinz Steinmüller & Dr Osmo Kuusi Co-Operation with the German Node

19 PUBLICATION: Heinonen, Sirkka Karjalainen, Joni Parkkinen, Marjukka Ruotsalainen, Juho & Zavialova, Sofia (2017) Surprising Energy Futures Neo-Carbon Energy Futures Clinique V. FFRC ebook 4/2017, Finland Futures Research Centre, University of Turku. 150 p. ISBN , p. ISBN , ISSN ut/e-tutu/documents/ebook_ pdf Interview of Karlheinz Steinmüller on VUCA World and Black Swans by Sirkka Heinonen at FFRC 18 th May v=igopmm5zgtq

20 Post Black Swans Cross Impact Analysis Transformational Scenarios 2050 Radical Startups Value-Driven Techemoths Do-It It- Yourself Engineers New Consciousness Impacts Black Swan 1 Black Swan 2 Black Swan 3 Black Society is organised around startups, which serve social and cultural goals besides economic ones. Quantitative Qualitative Large technology Citizens have companies, organised as with a peer-topeer ethos, communities local have become to survive and states within ecological Quantitative states. Qualitative collapse. Qualitative. Quantitative Shared identities replace individualism. Robotisation and AI have enabled a selfactualizing economy. HYBRID METHOD EXPERIMENT Scenarios black swans crossimpact

21 The EU project RIBRI (Osmo Kuusi FFRC) Radical Innovation Breakthrough Inquirer Partners: Fraunhofer ISI Germany (lead), Finland Futures Research Centre, Institutul de Prospectiva Romania Like in the Finnish Radical Technology Inquirer of the Parliament of Finland, the construction of Global Value Networks (GVN) from the European perspective, autumn 2017 (expert interviews FFRC) Using the artificial intelligence first 200 Radical Innovation Breakthroughs RIB candidates, experts select 100 most promising, autumn 2017 (Prospectiva) The evaluation of the prospects of the 100 RIBs based the GVNs, spring 2018 (main responsibility Fraunhofer) Co-Operation with the German &Romanian Node

22 RIBRI PROGRAM CHART

23 International FFRC Conference Futures of A Complex World Futures of A Complex World June Turku 7 presentations from Neo-Carbon WP1 in Futures Conference: Futures of A Complex World in Turku June Highlights in Neo-carbon Energy WP1 Working Paper 1/2017 Cornelia Dahaim as keynote speaker & Sirkka Heinonen as commentator FEN Workshop and Meeting

24 Cornealia Dahaim s keynote on MP Future of Work Scenarios

25 FEN Workshop at FFRC Conference in Turku

26 FEN Meeting in Turku Hosted by Sirkka Heinonen and Burkhard Auffermann from FFRC in Turku Cornela Daheim chairing the meeting Joint Project plans 100 years horizon interview with Thierry Gaudin (call for papers for FUTURA 1/2018, Osmo Kuusi, Sirkka Heinonen and Matti Minkkinen as visiting editors)

27 International Master s Programme in Futures Studies at University of Turku Call for Applications opens in December Finland Futures Research Centre offers a two year Master s Degree Programme in Futures Studies (FUTU) together with the Turku School of Economics in the University of Turku. The students enrolled in the Master s Programme will take a Master of Arts degree, the size of 120 ECTS credits. The two year programme is instructed in English.

28 Finland Futures Research Centre (FFRC) will organise International Conference on Energizing Futures to be held in Tampere 13th-14 th June 2018 (Burkhard Auffermann & S. Heinonen in the Scientific Board) spx

29 Even before that - FFRC celebrating its 25th Anniversary in Turku 13th December 2017 while Finland celebrating 100 years Anniversary of Independence All MP representatives invited to Turku!

30 Thank You! Kiitos! HELSINKI NODE Prof. Sirkka Heinonen Finland Futures Research Centre University of Turku Korkeavuorenkatu 25 A Helsinki, Finland sirkka.heinonen(at)utu.fi

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