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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.

One of the most important findings in the study “Labour Market 2035” of the Foresight Centre was that understanding the needs of talents and recognising their special skills and knowledge is an important challenge for the future labour market.

We are pleased to invite you to seminar on digital platforms and artificial intelligence. Large Chinese and US digital platforms are shaping the technological frontiers. The American technological hegemony is increasingly challenged by China. Subsequently, technology issues have taken a central role in the trade disputes between China and the United States.

The Head of the Foresight Centre Tea Danilov addressed the international seminar “Towards bridging science and decision-making”. She presented the scenarios on productivity, labour market, and governance that had been based on studies conducted by the Centre, and explained why the Foresight Centre does not propose ready solutions or provide political guidelines.

In 2019, the Foresight Centre plans to carry out three new monitoring projects: the condition of Estonian human resources, the financial well-being of the future elderly, and the evolution of regional development.

While the production of new knowledge remains a corner stone of the academic landscape, a rapidly growing task of scientific community is providing advice to the local and national governments. This challenge calls for further elaboration of the options, best practices and mechanisms of advice in the contemporary society that is oversaturated by information.