Although Estonia’s pension system is sustainable, it does not ensure financial well-being for the future elderly, and people must take increasing responsibility in securing their future, says the study of the Foresight Centre.
News
The study commissioned by the Foresight Centre shows that during the next 15 years, the development of the rural regions of Estonia is the most affected by technological innovation in industrial production and population trends and the spread of new forms of working.
At the seminar organised by the Foresight Centre and the Office of the Chancellor of Justice, researchers and practitioners working with children discussed the well-being of Estonian children, and focused on the bottlenecks and possibilities of measuring it.
Highly specialized, world market-leading, often family-owned companies are known as „Hidden Champions”. The value chains of the these ‘Mittelstand’ companies are global. This seminar will explore the challenges and opportunities of German Mittelstand companies when transferring business practices to Brazil from cultural and institutional perspectives.
An all-European survey of platform work shows that more and more people are getting their income from gig economy. In Estonia, 8% of working age population do platform work every week, which is more than in Germany and Sweden, but less than in Italy and the Netherlands.
Estonian people tend to give a high assessment of their financial well-being, but they invest less in securing their future than their knowledge and incomes would allow of, studies of money wisdom reveal.
Unicorns like Airbnb, Netflix, Deliveroo, Spotify, Slack, N26, Revolut, Bolt and Transferwise are now part of our daily lives. However, unicorns are mostly incorporated in the Unite States and China. Europe only accounts for a limited number of entities.
We are pleased to invite you to seminar on the emergence of cross-innovation systems. The seminar will focus on how audiovisual industries are co-innovating with education, healthcare and tourism sectors.
The Head of the Foresight Centre Tea Danilov addressed the international seminar “Towards bridging science and decision-making”.
Global policy community often sees Singapore as an outstanding example of long-term thinking and planning in public policy. This is so because strategic foresight has become a central ingredient of Singapore’s policy process. Experimentation with scenario planning started in the 1980s at the Ministry of Defense. Prime Minister’s office established Scenario Planning Office in 1995.