The nature of jobs in Europe has changed over time – and so has the demand for skills. Some jobs have moved abroad, some have been automated, new jobs, requiring news sets of skills, have been created. CEDEFOP, the European Centre for the Development of...

Author: Freya Kettner, freelance editor on the project beFORE. Let's look back 50 years: Not so long ago, many things that we take for granted in everyday life today were only found in science fiction movies: smartphones, microwaves, electric cars and, of...

The soft skills for the future of work. We all know that there are skills that will make a difference in the future and they are almost all soft skills. To confirm this, there are dozens of researches and contributions including, to name one, that of the...

Every year, students of the Master's Program Futures Studies at Freie Universität Berlin meet for their Huddle*. They inform themselves about current topics, work and research emphases and reflect on methods and their own self-image. At Huddle 2018, they...

We are happy to announce the 6th beFORE project newsletter. Please find below the latest news and articles.

On 16-17 April 2018 the second meeting of Italian Futurists was held in Bologna, at the headquarters of Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italian National Council of Research, CNR) and was organised by CNR, University of Bologna, University of Parma,...

Author: Alessandro Guadagni, ValueDo, Italy If you asked yourself, who did finance a project for creating an e-learning course for future oriented individuals and why, you will be interested in reading this article. Let’s start saying the beFORE is a...

On 16th May approximately 40 foresight experts and practitioners from over 10 countries met in the Meeting organized by the Foresight Europe Network (FEN) in Berlin. Some of the beFORE partners had the chance to participate there, where Dr. Anna...

Future awareness is not only about predicting the future! It is also about ‘using the future’ to expand our perception of the present!  Following the theory of Riel Miller from UNESCO, if we move away from the dominant approach of likely and desirable...

Author: Christoph Keller, Aveniture, Germany Today, we want to share some counter-intuitive findings on the status meaning of foresight in large corporations that emerged from our interviews in WP2. “Foresight” so one of our first interviewees, “Foresight...