Annual Summer School and Futures Conferences
Together with the Finland Futures Research Centre, the FFA organises an international summer course parallel to the annual conference. The teaching structure of the summer courses follows the topic of the conference, and students are free to participate in conference presentations and workshops. The summer course is meant for both undergraduate and postgraduate students who are interested in Futures Studies.
Forthcoming Summer School 2026
FFA’s traditional Summer School will be organised this time with a theme ‘Sustainability, Temporalities and Futures’. It consists of weekly online lectures and participation into international Futures Conference (on site). Further information available on March 2026.
Previous Themes
- 2025: Futures of Technologies – Mutual Shaping of Socio-Technical Transformations, 13.5.–12.6.2025, online & Turku
- 2024: Futures of Natural Resources, 7.5.–4.6.2024, online
- 2023: Transformative Visions in Society, 2.5.–26.6.2023, online
- 2022: Data & Futures Studies, 10.5.–28.6.2022, online & Turku
- 2021: Transformative Learning, 10.5.–28.6.2021, online
- 2019: Constructing Social Futures – Sustainability, Responsibility and Power, 12–13 June 2019, Turku
- 2018: Energizing Futures – Sustainable Development and Energy in Transition, 13–14 June 2018, Tampere
- 2017: Futures of a Complex World, 12–13 June 2017, Turku
- 2015: Futures Studies Tackling Wicked Problems: Where Futures Research, Education and Action Meet, 11–12 June 2015, Turku
- 2013: Futures Studies Tackling Wicked Problems
- 2012: Utopias and Dystopias in Futures Studies
- 2011: Trends and future of sustainable development
- 2010: Riski, turvallisuus ja tulevaisuudentutkimus
- 2007: Culture as Innovation
- 2005: Ennakoiva liiketoimintaosaaminen
- 2004: Sustainable Futures
- 2003: Environmental Scanning/International Futures
- 2002: Vision week