Category: events

FORESIGHT & INNOVATION IN BRAZIL 

FUTURLAB, represented by Enric Bas as guest speaker, has participated with a conference entitled “Foresight for Innovation. On participatory methods, empathy and the design of effective networks” at the 2018 International Seminar in Foresight and Innovation organized by the GPEI – Research Group in Strategy, Internationalization…

INTERNATIONAL PANEL ON THE FUTURE OF SHARED ECONOMY IN BRAZIL

Enric Bas and Ana Bossler have participated in the Quartas da Inovação – Edição Especial: The future of Collaborative Economy (AT ZENIT Technological Park, Portoalegre), as guest speakers and panelist on a discussion about the future of shared and collaborative economy. Visions and research outcomes have…

FORESIGHT & INNOVATION IN BRAZIL

FUTURLAB, represented by Enric Bas as guest speaker, has participated with a conference entitled “Foresight for Innovation. On participatory methods, empathy and the design of effective networks” at the 2018 International Seminar in Foresight and Innovation organized by the GPEI – Research Group in Strategy, Internationalization…

COMPLEX FUTURES

The FFRC-Finland Futures Research Center is a cornerstone in Futures Studies History, both at educational and research level. Additionally to being a reference of us, this center is one of the key strategic partners of our research unit since 1994. FUTURLAB contributed to the 2017 FFRC…

PLENARY OF THE FEN – FORESIGHT EUROPEAN NETWORK

Enric Bas, Director of FUTURLAB-UA, participated as Guest Speaker at the last FEN-Foresight European Network, held in Ljubjana (Slovenia) last October, 7th, 2016. He was invited as Coordinator of the WG3-Social Networks of the SFRI (Strategic Foresight for Research and Innovation) Experts Group of the European…

PARTICIPATORY FORESIGHT FOR SMART CITIES

Professor Enric Bas participated as Guest Speaker with a conference entitled “Democracy 2.0: Citizen as User or the role of Participatory Methods in Politics” at the 6th Ljubiana Forum on the Future of Cities held at the Ljubjana Castle (Slovenia) in October 6th,7th, 2016. He also…

CREATIVE FUTURES METHOD PRESENTED DURING THE IWEEK @ UA

Last week took part the International Week organized by The Faculty of Economics (UA) and Futurlab was invited to develop a workshop on “Creative Futures” training method. 20+ professors and researchers from international universities attended the workshop coordinated by Enric Bas and Mario Guilló. During this…

COLLOQUIUM ON THE FUTURE OF WORK

Professor Enric Bas, Director of FUTURLAB-UA, was invited to participate on November, 29th in a one-day intensive Experts Panel on “The Future of Employment” organized by the Foundation Rafael Del Pino (Madrid. Spain) together with other 16 participants representing civil society, business world and academy. Some…

WORKSHOP ABOUT THE FUTURE OF EUROPE @ HELSINKI

Last week we coordinated a workshop about the Future of Europe, held in Arcada University of Applied Science (Helsinki, FINLAND). This workshop was part of Arcada 360 course, with more than 150+ students from different nationalities. During the workshop the students applied our FLUX methodology and…

INTRODUCING THE GYM PROJECT

Yesterday took place the official presentation of the GYM Project, an innovative co-working and intrapreneurship project, in which 66 students from 22 different countries will work together with regional companies in the development of multidisciplinary projects, trying to give creative solutions to the future challenges presented…

HOW TO CREATE OPEN INNOVATION ECOSYSTEMS IN EUROPE

Last weekend Mario Guillo participated in the international ASCI camp held in Espoo, together with other 60 persons coming from 20 different countries. This was the first part of a 9 months prototyping process, which aims to solve 3 major challenges proposed by city of Espoo,…

PRESENTING FUTURLAB @ UFGRS SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, BRAZIL

Last January 27th Enric Bas and Mario Guillo had a meeting in Portoalegre with a group of researchers from the School of Management of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFGRS). This university, one of the most important in Brazil (ranked among Top 5 of…

FUTURLAB @ ICELAND INNOVATION CENTER

This week Enric Bas and Mario Guilló conducted an official visit to the Innovation Center Iceland. The purpose of this visit, organized by Karl Friddrikson (director of the center), was to meet some of the key elements shaping the successful Icelandic Innovation Ecosystem. This week included…

FORESIGHT & INNOVATION IN HONDURAS

Last June 3th Mario Guilló, Head of Development at FUTURLAB, led a workshop on Foresight and Innovation held in Tegucigalpa (Honduras), within the collaboration framework signed by SENACYT, THE NATIONAL AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY HONDURAS and UNIVERSITY DE ALICANTE. This collaboration framework aims to give visibility and to…

PARTICIPATORY FORESIGHT IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Next week Enric Bas will participate as a guest speaker at the V Congress of Excellence in Management in Public Administrations. This conference, to be held in Vitoria on May 22nd and 23rd, is a forum (nationally and internationally recognized) on Experiences and Methodologies of Excellence…

REINVENTING ALICANTE AS TOURISM DESTINATION

On April 9 took place the presentations of final projects of students participating in the 2nd edition of the course “Futures Thinking and Innovation”, taught by Enric Bas and Mario Guilló within the framework of the International Business Program at the Faculty of Economics UA. The…

APPROACHING INNOVATION THROUGH HUMANITIES

Last March 26th Enric Bas and Mario Guilló coordinated a workshop on Innovation and Foresight within the IV Conference on Research, organized by the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alicante. Starting from the assumption that Innovation is not-only-Technology, and working together with Juan Mesa…

FUTURLAB @ VALENCIA. INTERNATIONAL EVENT ON THE FUTURE OF HOME

Last week, Enric Bas (Director of Futurlab) was pleased to open (as guest speaker) the 2nd International Week, an international conference on architecture, design and technology, organized by CEU Cardenal Herrera University (Valencia). This event, whose leitmotiv was “iHome, from the modern house to the future…

FUTURLAB @ SWITZERLAND.PARTICIPATORY FORESIGHT CONGRESS

From Sept. 16th to 19th will take place in Winterthur (Switzerland) the International Congress “Participatory Foresight for Smarter Futures – From Design to Impact”, organized by the International Foresight Academy (IFA), being represented the main foresight research centers worldwide. Enric Bas and Mario Guilló will participate…

FUTURLAB VISITS LA AALTO DESIGN FACTORY

The Aalto Design Factory (ADF) is a global pioneer space, which aims to change the existing paradigm in the relationship between companies and university, providing a collaborative environment in constant development for students, researchers and professionals. Thus, the ADF makes available to students all means so…

FUTURLAB VISITS START UP SAUNA

The Start Up Sauna (formerly Aalto Venture Garage), has become one of the main talent hubs within the Aalto University. This business accelerator and incubator, with all its programs and activities, has managed to generate a blooming startup ecosystem and a pay-it-forward culture into the region,…

FUTURLAB VISITS AALTO UNIVERSITY

Today we started our visit to the Aalto University (Finland), one of the main references in Innovation worldwide. The purpose of this visit, organized by Riina Subra (Foresight & Advocacy Manager at Aalto University), is to get familiar with the Innovation Ecosystem surrounding this university. The…

INNODAY: DESIGNING OPEN INNOVATION ECOSYSTEMS

Innovation is not a wild flower that spontaneusly grow in the country. Innovation needs to be seeded, feeded and stimulated; and has to be based on a strong concept and philosophy to rely on. Designing OIEs (both at conceptual, structural and spatial levels) is a key…

FUTURLAB @ AALTO: THE EUROPEAN SILICON VALLEY

As guests of Riina Subra, the Foresight Manager of Aalto Impact, Mario Guillo and Enric Bas were visiting the Aalto University Campus, specially conceived and designed to become the outstanding european centerpoint of innovation and entrepeneurship. A place were MICROSOFT and NOKIA have made investments by…

DESIGNING SOCIETY THROUGH THINKING: OUR VISIT TO U. OF HELSINKI

In recent decades, Finland has invested large amounts of resources and efforts in building its education system, which is a reference worldwide and is an essential pillar for economic, technological and social development. But far from satisfied with the achievements so far, Finnish universities continue to…

ENRIC BAS, KEYNOTE SPEAKER IN THE TURKU SCIENCE PARK

Electrocity, the Turku Science Park, was where the University of Turku adressed the 14th Annual Congress of the FFRC-Finland Futures Research Center wich started on June 6th. The Director of Futurlab, Enric Bas, acted as Keynote Speaker on Wednesday, 7th, with a speech entitled “Creative Futures:…

FUTURLAB @ THE STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR COMPETITIVENESS OF ALICANTE CITY

Spain, and concretely the Eastern part of the country, is devastated by the current economic crisis. Despite of having a long-term tradition of succesful entrepeneurship, Alicante city and it´s metropolitan area, is hardly suffering the consequences of an historical and structural lack of futures and strategic…

THE CONSUMER OF THE FUTURE

The managing team of FUTURLAB will join the meeting of the GOR (German Operational Reserch) Society working group on Forecasting Methods, which will take place during May, 3rd and 4th at the BDF-Beiersdorf (the pharmaceutical multinational leading company producing) Headquarters in Hamburg (Germany). The main topic…

THE FINNISH CONNECTION (WELCOME ANNA!)

Last December, we enjoyed the visit of our beloved friend Anna Kirveennummi, Project Manager of FFRC. Anna came for a meeting to explore the possibility of an institutional agreement for further joint research activities on Social Innovation and Creative Economy. The meeting took place in Valencia,…

SOSTENUTO: EXPLORING THE ECONOMIC POTENTIAL OF CULTURE

SOSTENUTO is a European research project to explore the feedback relationships between culture, social innovation and economic innovation in time (as a process). This is currently one of the FUTURLAB research mainlines, thanks to our joint work with ECONCULT, the research unit on Cultural Economics of…

INNOHABITAT: FUTURES OF BUIT ENVIRONMENT

As you may know, the one-time succesful economic activity of Construction (one of the key productive-sectors of the spanish economy during the last five decades) is trying to deal with the harder structural crisis ever. FUTURLAB, in order to stimulate dialogue, exchange experiences and to explore…

TEARING DOWN THE WALL TO THE FUTURE (FUTURLAB @ BERLIN!!!)

Futurlab staff will participate at the International Conference “Planning Research for the Future?” that will be held at CCD-Center for Cluster Development (Freie Universität Berlin-Germany) from October 13th to 15th. Creativity will be one of the main axes considered in the event to build up futures…

INNOHABITAT: FUTURES OF CONSTRUCTION

In December 2009 FUTURLAB organized INNODAY, I International Workshop on Foresight and Innovation Culture. The event, attended by renowned experts invited from 6 different countries, was proposed as the first of a series of sectoral meetings aimed to raise awareness -through case studies of international prestige-…

EFP-MEETING EUROPEAN FORESIGHT PLATFORM @ VIENA

Enric Bas and Mario Guillo, from Futurlab, were at the 7th FP-EC project meeting of the EFP (European Foresight Platform) titled “Foresight in public research organizations”, organized by the Austrian Institute of Technology and held June 7th and 8th, at French Embassy in Vienna/Institut Français de…

INTRODUCING THE UNIVERSITY CHAIR OF ADVANCED TERTIARY

Enric Bas, Director of Futurlab was the Keynote Speaker, with a speech on Foresight and Inovation, in the ceremony of presentation of the Chair jointly created by the University of Alicante and CGCE (the regional association of consultancy firms). This first act, which took place at…

ROOKIE-II (KNOWING THE FINNISH NATIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEM, 2ND PART)

For second consecutive year, the management team of Futurlab, with the financing help of the Valencia Regional Government, visits Finland to learn their succesful national system of innovation. During two months, we have been working at FFRC-Finland Futures Research Center (the research leg of the FIS)…

JUHA KASKINEN (FFRC) VISITS FUTURLAB

Juha Kaskinen, Director of FFRC-Finland Futures Research Center, visited us at the University of Alicante with the aim of strengthening institutional relationships with Futurlab and having a kick-off meeting to discuss with Enric Bas (Director of Futurlab) and Jesus Navarro (Director of Corporate Development. AIDIMA) about…