Category: projects

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FORESIGHT AND INNOVATION FOR LASIN NETWORK

As part of the project Erasmus+ LASIN – Latin American Social Innovation Network, 12 students coming from Latam (Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Panama) chosen by their own universities on the basis of their Social Innovation projects, participated in an intensive Workshop on Foresight and Innovation driven…

PROF. JAVIER MEDINA FROM UNIVALLE (COLOMBIA) VISITS UA

FUTURLAB proudly invited Prof.Medina, one of the most outstanding futurists in Latam, as a part of his Sabbatical Period in Europe, in order to participate in seminars, workshops and meetings with academic authorities like the Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Dr. Raul Ruiz. PROF. JAVIER…

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…

THE FUTURE OF SHARED ECONOMY 2030

FUTURLAB won a contract in a call from The OpenDoors Project (INTERREG Program. European Regional Development Fund. H2020-8th R&I Framework Programme. European Commission) to ellaborate a Future Scenarios Report on the basis of the 3-years research results of this european network. The “Future Scenarios for the…

SFRI – REPORT ON RESEARCH & INNOVATION POLICY IN H2020

Soon Available at the Publications Office of the European Union the SFRI-Report on Research and Innovation Policy in Horizon 2020, delivered April, 2017. Enric Bas, Director of FUTURLAB, is one of the co-authors and Editor of the Background Paper on Networking and Foresight, as member of the…

SOCIAL INNOVATION & FORESIGHT IN LATAM

The Project Network 617RT0531- CREATION AND CONSOLIDATION OF THE LATINAMERICAN CONFEDERATION OF FORESIGHT NETWORKS (PROS_RED_LAC) has been approved in the 2016 call of CYTED, and will be developed in the next four years (2017-2020). This network is participated by outstanding academic and research institutions from Colombia,…

SCENARIOS OF THE TRUMP ERA

During January and February, 2017 Professor Enric Bas has been participating as a scientific member of the Techcast Global Think Tank (USA) in an experts panel survey on Future Scenarios for the Trump Era. This ambitious study has been exploring the possible and probable future consequences…

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…

FUTURES OF RENEWAL ENERGY SECTOR IN SOUTH PACIFIC AREA

This September Dr. Mario Guilló has been developing different training sessions on Foresight and Energy Futures in South Pacific Area. This training has been developed under the umbrella of EPIC project (funded by the European Commission), which main aim is to develop skills and capacity on…

EXPLORING THE FUTURE CHALLENGES OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN LYBIA

University of Alicante is coordinating a project with Libyan University entitled UNIGOV-Modernizing University Governance and Management in Libya. In the context of this project Mario Guilló was invited to coordinate a foresight study focused on identifying and evaluating main future challenges for Higher Education Institutions in…

SUSTAINABILITY FOR FOOD SECURITY INITIATIVES IN WEST-AFRICAN COUNTRIES

This week we have received the visit of our colleagues from CAPACITY4FOOD, a project focused on promoting Food Security in Anglophone Western African countries. University representatives from Nigeria, Gambia, Cameroon, Sierra Leone and Ghana have attended the workshop on Strategic Planing coordinated by Mario Guilló. Main…

PROMOTING UNIVERSITY – ENTERPRISE COOPERATION IN PALESTINE

Enric Bas and Mario Guilló represented the University of Alicante during STEP International Conference (Strengthening University-Enterprise Linkages in Palestine), held on June 2nd in the Korean Palestinian IT Institute of Excellence (An-Najah National University, Palestine). The conference covered a wide range of topics about innovation and…

THE FUTURE OF PRODUCTIVE SECTORS IN HONDURAS

This week Mario Guilló coordinated a high level workshop on the future of the main productive sectors in the country. In this workshop representatives from different ministries and the Presidents of the main Universities in the country discussed about the main challenges to be faced in…

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…

IDEAL PROJECT: BOOSTING INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS @ LEBANON

This week, Mario Guilló attended the working sessions of the IDEAL Project – Innovation and Development of Academic-Industry Partnerships through Efficient Research Administration in Lebanon. This project aims to develop systems capable of supporting and promoting relevant research at Lebanese universities, create networks to transfer innovation…

THE GYM PROJECT PRESENTED IN BELGRADE

Last week, Mario Guilló presented The GYM Project within the SIPUS Tempus Project, a project funded by the European Commission that aiming the strength of internationalisation policies at universities in Serbia. During the project consortium meeting held in Belgrade, The GYM Project was introduced to representatives…

TWO UNIVERSITIES FROM USA VISITING THE GYM SPACE

Last weeks we have received very special visits at the GYM Space. In October Elisabeth Barber and Jeffrey Montague (representating the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management at the Temple University, Philadelphia) were at the GYM Space, and last week we received the visit of Andres…

VISITING THE COMPANIES INVOLVED IN THE GYM PROJECT

During this week took place the first site visits to Gioseppo and Grupo Marjal, two of the companies involved in the GYM Project. This is the phase of a process that will last the next 3 months, and will bring together students and companies that will…

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,…

BUILDING A FORESIGHT OBSERVATORY IN HONDURAS

Last week took place the last sessions of the training program that the Foundation of the University of Alicante is providing the Secretariat of Science, Technology and Innovation (SENACYT) in Honduras, which aims to train managers and technicians of the Secretariat for developing a national plan…

TOWARDS A UNIVERSITY – ENTERPRISE ALLIANCE IN JORDAN

On November 23rd Mario Guilló participated as a guest speaker at a workshop on innovation and technology transfer that took place in the Princess Sumaya University for Technology (Amman, Jordan). This activity is part of a project funded by the TEMPUS program, which aims to stimulate…

WORKING WITH HONDURAS GOVERNMENT ON THE FUTURE OF THE COUNTRY

During the last week Futurlab conducted a future workshop in the city of Tegucigalpa (Honduras). In this future workshop, held in the city of Tegucigalpa, we work with researchers, technicians, politicians and students in identifying and analyzing trends and weak signals of change that may affect…

FUTURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN EUROPE ASSOCIATED COUNTRIES

Since last June Mario Guilló works as an expert in Foresight and Innovation Office of International Projects at the UA. This collaboration is focused on projects TEMPUS program funded by the European Union to support the modernization of higher education in the partner countries of Eastern…

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…

PRESENTATION OF FLUX·3D METHODOLOGY @ AALTO UNIVERSITY

Last week Enric Bas and Mario Guilló introduced FLUX·3D methodology at the Design Factory, one of the most emblematic spaces in Aalto University, an international reference in the fields of Design, Innovation and collaboration between University and Enterprise. FLUX·3D workshops were attended by professors and students…

RIINA SUBRA (AALTO UNIVERSITY) VISITS FUTURLAB

Riina Subra, Foresight and Advocacy Manager of the Aalto University (Finland), which is considered the “European Silicon Valley” (because of Microsoft, Nokia,…) came to visit us in Alicante. The main aim was to strength institutional links and to move forward in the draft pilot project FLUX-3D,…

THINK TANK 20+20: FUTURES OF FUTURE RESEARCH

The FFRC-Finland Futures Research Center was founded on 1992, and soon it became a worldwide reference both in Futures Studies and on Innovation (FFRC is a key actor -the one leading with research- of the Finnish National System of Innovation) because its succesful outcomes and wide…

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…

FUTURLAB GERMAN TOUR, PART 3

Since 2008 FUTURLAB and the FOUNDATION OF FUTURES STUDIES (B.A.T. Germany) are partners and use to work in joint projects. The participation of Enric Bas, as guest analyst, expert and co-author, in the books “Futures Expectations For Europe” and “United Dreams of Europe” (prologued by Jose…

FUTURLAB GERMAN TOUR, PART 2

Enric Bas and Mario Guillo, of FUTURLAB, meet Anne Schubring (Project Manager) and Till Huber (Corporate Communication) of STURM UND DRANG- Innovation Insights, one of the leading european consultant companies in Business Intelligence 2.0 (with clients like AUDI, BMW, DANONE, NESTLE, ALLIANZ, MCDONALD’S) on May, 4th.…

FUTURLAB GERMAN TOUR, PART 1

Enric Bas and Mario Guillo, from FUTURLAB, were invited to the Open Party & Exhibition at TRENDONE (Hamburg, Germany) held on May, 3rd in order to celebrate the Award “Land der Ideen”, supported by Deustche Bank, they recently won. During the event, some TrendLabs, Innovation Workshops…

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…

EUROPE ENDLESS

What is Europe? And how do Europeans view their continent? Is Europe merely a supranational institution where everything is all about politics? Can we reduce it to a European Football Cup every 4 years? Or an annual Eurovision Song Contest? Is it just about laws and…

THE WILD, THE WEAK & THE I-KNOW PROJECT (7FP)

The Director of Futurlab, Enric Bas, has been invited as guest speaker to the I-Know (European Commission FP7) Final Conference: “Taming the Wild & Listening to the Weak. Towards a Strategic Issue Management System for Science, Technology and Innovation” that will be held in Brussels (Belgium)…

FAHRENHEIT212: CREATIVE FUTURES & INNOVATIVE IDEAS

The main challenges we must face in the future are global. Taking into account this idea FUTURLAB is going to launch FAHRENHEIT212, an international think tank of students of various nationalities that will share reflections on their own future visions, trying to provide new insights on…

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…

FORESIGHT+DESIGN FOR SMES

Claiming the strategic value that foresight and design can bring to SMEs has been one of the main objectives of FUTURLAB since its inception. Under this philosophy is presented PRODESIGNLAB, an online platform funded by IMPIVA and developed jointly by the IDF-Institute of Design and Manufacturing…

FUTURES FOR MADRID. FUTURLAB+IED IN EXPO SHANGAI-2010

The city council of Madrid will have its own pavillion at Shangai 2010. To provide fresh contents for the pavillion, and under the appointment of IED, a real ambitious Project has been arranged: the Madrid Design Network. Futurlab was asked to conceive and drive an specific…