Białystok University of Technology, Poland (BUT) is a modern, dynamically developing institution with 65-year-old experience in educating scientists and technologists. At present there are nearly 12 thousand students studying at BUT in its 7 faculties. BUT, especially Faculty of Management has already a recognized position in conducting foresight research and offers Futures Literacy courses, respectively at curriculum level.

4CF is a strategic foresight consultancy. Its core expertise lies in long term analysis and strategy – helping businesses, NGOs and governments around the world to reach their goals in the rapidly changing environment. They increase organizations’ and teams’ capacity to identify, prepare for and utilize opportunities and threats. 4CF advises, analyses and trains staff for its clients in Poland and internationally.

The University of Pisa (UNIPI), established in 1343, is one of the oldest in the world. It has 20 departments, and offers 58 undergraduate and 74 graduate programmes, 28 PhD, 68 third cycle specialisations, and about 80 post graduate, including an MBA. It has over 52.000 students, 1552 faculty members, and 1467 technical and administrative staff members.

ValueDo S.r.l. is specialized in activities of European, national, regional and local project management and in the support of public socio-economic innovation policies. ValueDo srl carries out activity of research dedicated to the evaluation and definition of the strategies and the best initiatives within the strategic planning in addition to the use of EU structural fund. Valuedo manages also 91C: coworking space and coworkingcaffè. www.valuedo.eu

MONDRAGON UNIVERSITY is a non-profit cooperative university of social vocation and public interest focused on the needs of businesses and organisations. Being officially established in 1997, its academic activity started in 1960, seeking to continue the tradition of the former Sancti Spiritus University of Oñati, built in 1542. University’s has four faculties: Engineering, Business studies, Humanities and Education and Culinary Science.

PROSPEKTIKER is an independent structure for reflection and prospective analysis focused on both the public and private sectors and dedicated to examining what possible futures await today’s world. Prospektiker’s main goals are to detect the innovations, discover strong tendencies, evaluate possible impacts and take a role of sentry over the key factors for the future. www.prospektiker.es

Institut Futur is the name of the division Education and Futures Research at the Freie Universität Berlin. The institute was founded in 2000. Since then, its focus has been on three core areas: 1) Futures Studies based on Social Science, 2) transformation in the education system, with a special focus on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and 3) research on the transfer of knowledge and innovation. www.institutfutur.de

Aveniture is a boutique consultancy specialized in industrial futures studies. It has focus on three questions: What creates growth, how to make companies grow (including innovation, new technologies and foresight), and how to master the risks involved (chiefly geopolitical and innovation-project risks).