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 Vocational...
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 Institute for...
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 put...
We are happy to announce the 6th beFORE project newsletter. Please find below the latest news and articles. 4th beFORE meeting in Berlin: anticipation, e-learning and design thinking Authors: Freya Kettner and Stefanie Ollenburg, FREIE, Germany On May 14 and 15, the...
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, Italian...
