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Future Schooling, Education and Learning: Our Aspirations [1]
Byadmin 21 March 201714 March 2023

Scotland 2030: Goodison Group in Scotland Forum Debate Read the Education in 2030: Our Aspirations – Event Report To kick off its investigation into education and learning in the future, the Goodison Group in Scotland held a debate on 21 March 2017 on our aspirations for education in 2030 in conjunction with Scotland’s Futures Forum….

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Democracy | Events and Resources | Session 5 | Technology

Digital Democracy: Opportunities and Challenges for Scotland
ByFutures Forum Staff 9 February 201717 July 2023

Seminar with Nesta Scotland in February 2017 on what Scotland can learn from digital democracy pioneers throughout Europe.

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Economy | Events and Resources | Session 5 | Technology

Automation in the Scottish Economy
ByFutures Forum Staff 2 February 201710 February 2023

The growing level of automation in Scotland’s economy and the implications for our workforce was the subject of a Scotland’s Futures Forum’s Breakfast Seminar in 2017. Hosted by Richard Leonard MSP on behalf of the Parliament’s Economy, Jobs and Fair Work Committee, the seminar heard from Ewan Mearns of Scottish Enterprise’s strategy and sectors team…

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Economy | Events and Resources | Finance | Health | Our work | Session 5 | Society

Fostering Cultures of Innovation
ByFutures Forum Staff 28 November 20164 September 2023

Workshop in November 2016 to support the SUII programme on Fostering Cultures of Innovation, featuring video presentations of each project.

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Education | Events and Resources | Our work | Session 5 | Society

Intergenerational Learning
ByFutures Forum Staff 7 September 20164 September 2023

With Baby Boomers, Generation X and Millennials all sharing the workplace, this forum debate in September 2016 focused on intergenerational learning.

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Education | Events and Resources | Session 4 | Society

Equity and Scottish Education
ByFutures Forum Staff 2 September 201529 August 2023

If we look over the horizon to 2020, what would an equitable education look like? This GGiS forum in September 2015 focused on equity in education and improving attainment.

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Education | Events and Resources | Session 4 | Technology

Technology as a learning environment
ByFutures Forum Staff 25 March 20154 September 2023

This forum debate with the Goodison Group in Scotland in March 2015 explored learning environments, with a focus on technology.

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Events and Resources | Health | Session 4 | Society

IRISS – Imagining the Future Scenarios
Byadmin 17 November 20146 March 2023

What will community, support and social services mean and look like in 2025? Imagining the Future Scenarios There is absolutely no reason to expect that by 2025 social services in Scotland will look the same as they do today. What does the future hold for social services in 2025? Nobody knows for sure. It is…

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Economy | Events and Resources | Session 4

Business Succession: the sustainability of family businesses and SMEs
ByFutures Forum Staff 9 March 20146 March 2023

New research reveals up to £1.23 billion tax gain by increasing the number of successfully transferred SMEs and Family Businesses in Scotland Research demonstrates how SMEs and Family Businesses can significantly grow the Scottish economy. It also suggests that governments across Europe need to recognise the importance of providing support for business transfers to help…

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Education | Events and Resources | Major Projects | Session 4 | Society

By 2025, Scotland will be regarded as a world-leading learning nation
ByFutures Forum Staff 1 February 201312 March 2023

As part of Scotland’s Futures Forum strategic link with the Goodison Group in Scotland in the area of learning and skills, our organisations undertook a project on Scotland as a world-leading learning nation. This ambitious project took a futures look at the learning environment in 2025 and beyond. It aims to help to change attitudes…

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Education | Events and Resources | Session 4

Realising the Potential of Engaged Universities
ByFutures Forum Staff 15 June 201112 March 2023

The Edinburgh Beltane Beacon for Public Engagement held an event on 15 June 2011, focusing on ‘Realising the Potential of Engaged Universities’.

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Events and Resources | Session 4 | Society

The Oxfam Humankind Index for Scotland
Byadmin 16 May 20116 March 2023

Report from a conversation café in June 2011 held as part of the development of the Oxfam Humankind Index.

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Environment | Events and Resources | Session 3 | Society

Facing up to Climate Change
ByFutures Forum Staff 29 March 20116 March 2023

In early March 2011, Scotland’s Futures Forum along with Edinburgh Beltane hosted two seminars to consider the findings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s report ‘Facing up to climate change: breaking the barriers to a low-carbon Scotland’. These events were attended by MSPs, policymakers, academics and others with an interest in the subject.

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Events and Resources | Justice | Session 3 | Society

Women in Prison
ByFutures Forum Staff 2 February 20116 March 2023

Increasing numbers of women are being imprisoned in Scotland (and other comparable jurisdictions), and this cannot be explained by rates of offending or changes in the nature of offences. The Scottish Universities Insight Institute recently held a series of workshops to consider the criminal justice system’s response to women’s offending and its findings were presented…

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Economy | Events and Resources | Finance | Session 3 | Society

Social Impact Bonds
ByFutures Forum Staff 22 November 20106 March 2023

Seminar in November 2010 with public, private and voluntary sectors on an innovative way of funding solutions to social problems.

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Education | Events and Resources | Session 3 | Society

The Future of British Sign Language in an Inclusive Scotland
ByFutures Forum Staff 15 November 201012 March 2023

As part of the 2010-11 seminar series, in partnership with Edinburgh Beltane, a Futures Forum was held on 15 November 2010 bringing together around 70 delegates to explore what is understood by ‘an inclusive Scotland in 2020’ in relation to minority languages. In particular, participants considered what the future might be for British Sign Language….

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Economy | Environment | Events and Resources | Housing | Major Projects | Session 3 | Society

Scotland: Sustainable Communities in 2030
ByFutures Forum Staff 12 September 20106 March 2023

A scenario project from 2010 examining what sustainable communities might look like in Scotland in 2030. Features report and scenarios video.

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Arts&Culture | Events and Resources | Session 3 | Society

The Future of Edinburgh’s Cultural Sector
ByFutures Forum Staff 28 June 20106 March 2023

In 2010, Scotland’s Futures Forum and the City of Edinburgh Council’s Culture and Sport Division engaged in a short-term project to explore the future of the city’s arts and culture sector. The purpose of the project was for those in the arts and culture sector to share their aspirations for the future, and to consider how they…

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Economy | Events and Resources | Finance | Session 3 | Society

Scotland’s Public Finances
ByFutures Forum Staff 16 March 201012 March 2023

Project in 2010 looking at challenges to Scotland’s public finances from budget constraints, technological change and shifting relationships.

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Economy | Energy | Environment | Events and Resources | Session 3

Low Carbon Scotland Report
ByFutures Forum Staff 8 March 20108 March 2023

Futures Forum seminar in March 2010 on realising a low carbon economy. Key messages include a lack of systemic policy making and Scotland’s unique opportunities

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Arts&Culture | Environment | Events and Resources | Session 3 | Society

National Trust for Scotland: a Sustainable Future
ByFutures Forum Staff 25 January 20106 March 2023

A futures discussion paper on the National Trust for Scotland produced in 2010 for the Reid Review.

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Economy | Events and Resources | Finance | Health | Session 3 | Society

What might a Scottish welfare system look like in 2020?
ByFutures Forum Staff 7 September 20096 March 2023

Seminar in September 2009 on what might a Scottish welfare system look like in 2020? With Swedish expert Prof Joakim Palme

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Economy | Events and Resources | Finance | Health | Session 3 | Society

Poverty and Inequalities in Scotland
ByFutures Forum Staff 29 May 200912 March 2023

Conference in May 2009 on poverty and inequalities in Scotland. A decade after devolution, what has improved and what are the priorities for the future?

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Drugs policy | Events and Resources | Health | Session 3

Approaches to Alcohol and Drugs in Scotland – A Question of Architecture
ByFutures Forum Staff 9 June 20086 March 2023

Report from 2008 from a project on how we can reduce the damage caused by alcohol and drug misuse by half by 2025.

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Events and Resources | Health | Session 2 | Society

Growing Older and Wiser Together
ByFutures Forum Staff 7 January 200723 May 2023

Report from 2007 from a futures project taking a positive approach to an ageing society. Includes key questions and three scenarios for discussion

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