Transcript OTSIKKO TAI LAITOS - The Millennium Project

Helsinki Node Report July 2009 - July 2010
Millennium Project
2010 Planning Committee Meeting
July 6-8 2010, Boston, USA
MEETINGS AND PERSONNEL
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Node meetings in Oct 23 2009, Jan 26 2010 and May 4 2010
Node members
• Dr. Mika Aaltonen STRAX, Aalto University
• Prof. Sirkka Heinonen FFRC, University of Turku
• Chair person in 2009
• Director Juha Kaskinen FFRC, University of Turku
• Dr. Osmo Kuusi Finnish Parliament and VATT (Government
Institute for Economic Research)
• Foresight Manager Riitta Nieminen-Sundell Sitra (- 05 2010)
• Coordinator Sari Söderlund , FFA, University of Turku
• Chair person in 2010
ACTIVITIES
Real Time Delphi
• Latin America 2035
• The Future of Learning
Internal development of MP
Global Millennium Prize (MP)
• Auli Keskinen and Sirkka Heinonen as judges
Futures Research Methodology 3.0. dissemination
• Research projects
• Training and education in FFA and FFRC
• Millennium Forum for wider audiences
• Node members personal networks
3RD MILLENNIUM FORUM
”EXPERTS AS CARRIERS OF FORESIGHT KNOWLEDGE?”
• organized on 6th Nov. 2009 in Helsinki University by Helsinki Node
(Sirkka Heinonen & Osmo Kuusi) to promote MP FR Methodology V 3.0 and
methodological discussion
• Chaired by Prof. Ilkka Niiniluoto and Prof. Sirkka Heinonen
• Key speaker Prof. Murray Turoff on Delphi, other speakers Sirkka Heinonen,
Osmo Kuusi and Petri Tapio + video message from Jerome Glenn
• Lively debate with the audience of more than 80 participants
• Special Issue of FUTURA Journal of the Finnish Society for Futures Studies,
including the English articles by Jerome Glenn and Murray Turoff
ACTIVITIES
• Fund raising for Helsinki Node
• Training project proposal to Nordic Dimension Initiative
network
• New Book by Mika Aaltonen (2010)
• Robustness – Anticipatory and Adaptive Human
Systems. Emerging Publications.
• University of Turku is the new host university of FFRC
and FFA.
• Futures studies is one of six strategic focus areas of
University of Turku
• Ministry of Education and Culture has nominated FFRC
as national special unit of futures studies and foresight
in Finland