Latest Conference News
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Conference Updates 16 April 2024
Futures Conference 2024 gives you a unique opportunity to network and learn more about the futures of natural resources! We’re delighted to let you know that we received more than 120 submissions to our event. In addition to the six keynote speeches, there will be around 100 presentations in various sessions and around 20 workshops… Read more
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Welcome to Foresight Europe Network (FEN) Meeting on 12 June
The leadership team of Foresight Europe Network (FEN) cordially invites you to the upcoming in-person meeting on Wednesday 12 June 2024 in Turku, Finland. The meeting is free and open to all who are interested in futures and foresight in Europe. Whether you have signed up as a FEN Member, are wise and experienced in futures or newly… Read more
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Conference Updates 11 March 2024
Please find the preliminary conference programme updated on the conference website. We are starting with a virtual online day on Tuesday 4 June, followed with two full onsite days on Thursday 13 and Friday 14 June. This time the venue for the event is newly built ’Medisiina’ and its conference facilities. The building is also… Read more
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Conference Updates 15 February 2024
Abstract submission to the conference has ended. We have received a great number of proposals with impressive research results and findings on the themes in hand. Warm thank you goes to all the authors for their work so far. Our review team is going through the abstracts at the moment and we will inform all… Read more
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Collaboration with the SRI/SSD2024 Conference
Futures Conference 2024 is partnering with Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress / Sustainability Science Days 2024 (SRI/SSD2024), which will be held on 10–14 June 2024 in Helsinki and Espoo, Finland. SRI is the world’s largest annual event dedicated to sustainability research and innovation, bringing together over 2000 participants from around the globe. Our partners are… Read more
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Special Issue for the Futures Conference 2022 is published
The participants of the Futures Conference 2022 ”Planetary Futures of Health and Wellbeing” had the opportunity to submit articles and reports to a special issue of the Journal of Futures Studies, which dealt with the themes of the conference. The articles and reviews in this issue highlight the need for systemic change as well as… Read more
About us
What are Futures Conferences?
Each year the Finland Futures Research Centre (FFRC) and Finland Futures Academy (FFA) at the University of Turku organises its annual Futures Conference, an invaluable opportunity for meeting, exchanging and debating current topics related in futures studies and foresight. With approximately 200–350 individual participants attending from all over the world, international researchers, organisational delegates, business people and students convene to the FFRC annual conferences in the spirit of futures-oriented information, research, analysis and collaboration. Read more about the previous events.
2023
”Thank you for organizing such an enriching conference, brimming with insightful presentations and stimulating discussions. It was truly a remarkable experience and a platform for new learnings.”
2022
”I got good comments to my research, new ideas from keynotes and sessions, as well as new connections.”
”New participants brought fresher views and this is needed for the whole field.”
2021
”Well managed conference. Delightful to see so many interactive workshops included in the program.”
”Excellent virtual conference, well done for organizing it!”
Futures of Natural Resources
The global consumption of natural resources has accelerated since the industrial revolution, in pursuit of development and economic growth. With the emergence of climate and other ecological crises, it is now acknowledged that the rate and patterns of consumption are neither sustainable nor equitable. The vested interests, and related structures of economic and political power, play a central role in maintaining a status quo, characterised by short-term thinking and a priority on profit maximisation. Within these conditions, the perspective of the future of humanity and of the natural world on which we depend is marginalised. This prompt empirical, philosophical, policy and practice questions, on the social and environmental consequences of continuing this path, on the role and value of nature, and on what would a transformed relationship between humanity and natural resources look like?
Futures of Natural Resources 