Which benefits spill on society and local communities when we are able to explore multiple  implications of socio-economic factors and prospective geopolitical events? How is dealing professionally with the future as a study object? What type of mindset and study career is needed for developing a rigorous methodological framework in future studies?

These questions are among the ones that the participants to ECIU Challenge 2025 ‘Engaging with the Future’ will address and research: they will be involved in an innovative learning environment, dealing with in-presence participatory workshops and lectures and online meetings and seminars with experts and academics. Collaborating in groups and supported by tutors, students are also called to challenge the world with a visionary attitude in formulating ideas about new educational paths and multidisciplinary competencies for ‘Engaging with the futures’.

Within the ECIU educational framework, participants  (BA and MA students), researchers and professionals dealing with future studies and related issues will imagine how anticipatory perspectives can be stimulated at the individual and social level and discuss the possible interconnections between disciplines (anthropology of the future, foresight and scenario planning, risks and disasters anticipatory plans) and across relevant global issues (demographic crisis, ecological transformations, social and political hysteresis, cultural changes).

The 2025 edition of the Challenge will offer in-presence lectures by researchers of both Trento and Linkoping University (Poli, Odella, Foradori, Fredrickson, Dahlin), participatory workshops and online seminars with international experts and professionals of Social Foresight.  Innovative learning models will be implemented in classes and assessments evaluation, encouraging students' creativity and critical thought; each group of participants will be supervised by Teamchers that will assist them in dealing with their projects and progressing in their learning paths. Finally, issues related to European innovation and cultural diversity could also be explored during the two weeks of international mobility (Soi, Trento and Norrkoping Campus, Sweden) during meetings with community and institutional representatives that may contribute to enrich the participants’ educational experience.

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