Foresight Training Program
The world market of higher education is facing momentous mutations. The 4th industrial revolution and its emerging technologies, in particular artificial intelligence, are posing the greatest contemporary challenge to universities across the globe. Not only does this require far-reaching restructuring efforts on and off our campuses, but the obsolescence or mutation of entire categories of jobs and the ongoing emergence of new ones also compel institutions of higher learning to rethink their educational mission. The ability to understand and assess developing trends and to anticipate future contexts will be key to the capacity of universities to adapt to or simply survive the unprecedented transformations that are underway.
To assist presidents and all staff members involved in management and strategy planning in dealing with these challenges, IFCU has developed a training program that will introduce them to the benefits of foresight methodologies, with an emphasis on trend watching and scenario planning. This program will equip participants with innovative tools and concepts that will allow them to develop a clearer vision of possible futures and identify opportunities and ways to mitigate risks.
The world market of higher education is facing momentous mutations. The 4th industrial revolution and its emerging technologies, in particular artificial intelligence, are posing the greatest contemporary challenge to universities across the globe. Not only does this require far-reaching restructuring efforts on and off our campuses, but the obsolescence or mutation of entire categories of jobs and the ongoing emergence of new ones also compel institutions of higher learning to rethink their educational mission. The ability to understand and assess developing trends and to anticipate future contexts will be key to the capacity of universities to adapt to or simply survive the unprecedented transformations that are underway.
To assist presidents and all staff members involved in management and strategy planning in dealing with these challenges, IFCU has developed a training program that will introduce them to the benefits of foresight methodologies, with an emphasis on trend watching and scenario planning. This program will equip participants with innovative tools and concepts that will allow them to develop a clearer vision of possible futures and identify opportunities and ways to mitigate risks.
Program duration
2 and a half days
Program content
3 modules:
1) Global mutations in higher education and research at world and regional level
2) The methodology of Future Studies
3) Group workshops aimed at acquiring scenario-planning methods
Active involvement is key to the program, as participants will be called upon to share their own experiences and create a scenario for their own institution. Participants will be provided with a complimentary copy of IFCU’s 2018 and 2019 annual trend watching reports and of the “Future of Work and Skills” booklet – a futures studies training tool developed especially for IFCU member universities.
Target groups
University presidents, deans, members of managerial staff at member institutions of higher learning
Trainers
Dr. François Mabille is the Secretary General of IFCU and a researcher at CNRS. He has taught and published in the field of Futures Studies and authored foresight reports for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the French Ministry of Defense and the International Organization of La Francophonie.
Dr. Corinne Mellul heads the Foresight Unit at IFCU and teaches at Sciences Po. She also worked as a ministerial adviser at the French Ministry of Foresight, Public Policy Evaluation and the Digital Economy.
loic.roche@bureau.fiuc.org; programs@bureau.fiuc.org