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Arcos Cielos Research Center
Arcos Cielos Research Center, located in Sedona, Arizona USA, was established for developing unique new paradigms in Science, Education, Fine Arts, Planetary Ecology, Future-Science Technology and Consciousness Transformation.

Australian Foresight Institute
The activities of the Australian Foresight Institute (AFI) at Swinburne University have been assumed by the Faculty of Business and Enterprise (FBE). The teaching and research program continues to be offered through the FBE's graduate school (Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship) complementing the Faculty's suite of world class postgraduate business programs.

BAT-Foundation for Future Studies, Hamburg, Germany
FFS conducts scientific and statistical research into current attitudes and behaviour across a range of social and political strata. The purpose of this research is to develop a picture of the challenges that society will face in the future.

Center for Strategic Futurist Thinking (Israel)
The Center for Strategic Futurist Thinking concerns itself with three areas – economic and business development; global trends of general interest and Jewish issues. The Center offers a variety of Lectures and Workshops as well as Research and Consulting. The Center is directed by Tsvi Bisk. Tsvi is a Futurist and Strategic Thinking consultant, who has devoted himself to developing new and different ways of thinking about the future.

Center for Strategic Management Studies (CGEE)
Studies performed by CGEE identify future possibilities and support public policies for the development of science, technology and innovation in Brazil.

Centre for Future-Oriented Studies, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria
Dr Chrysanthus Chukwuma, Sr is Executive Director, The Chrysanthus Centre for Future-Oriented Studies, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria. The focus of the Chrysanthus Centre is the application of information & scientific technology in sustainable development for the future. The Centre makes provision of the organizing ability of experts and volunteers, but seeks funding from outside sources to take effective action for specific purposes of encouraging interest in awareness-raising/building, workshops, seminars, conferences, training, research, and consultancy in services on economics and business strategy, sectoral and regional development, agriculture and rural development, as well as environment, health and education.

Club of Rome
The Club of Rome is a global think tank and center of innovation and initiative. The Club of Rome is a not-for-profit organisation, independent of any political, ideological or religious interests. Its essential mission is "to act as a global catalyst for change through the identification and analysis of the crucial problems facing humanity and the communication of such problems to the most important public and private decision makers as well as to the general public."

Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
The objective of the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies is to strengthen the basis for decision-making in public and private organisations by creating awareness of the future and highlighting its importance to the present.

COST Action A22: Advancing Foresight Methodologies
The European Science Foundation hosted website for the European Concerted Research Action COST A22 - Advancing Foresight Methodologies: Exploring new ways to explore the future.

David Hicks - Teaching for a Better World
I began my professional career teaching geography in UK secondary schools before moving into initial teacher education in the mid-70s.

Delta Scan: The Future of Science and Technology, 2005-2055
This is a forum for scanning the science and technology horizon over the next 50 years. The forum contains a hundred outlook pages covering a wide range of scientific disciplines and technologies. These include topics associated with the future geography and structure of science.

Europe 2020 - European Laboratory of Political Anticipation
Europe 2020 is a website dedicated to European political anticipation. Developed in partnership with many different organisations including research centres and individual researchers, Europe 2020 website aims at promoting research in the field of European political anticipation and at circulating widely results of this research. Simultaneously, Europe 2020 website provides support to innovating initiatives aimed at upgrading the European Union’s capacity to face 21st century challenges.

Finland Futures Research Center, Turku, Finland
Finland Futures Research Centre (FFRC) is one of the largest academic futures studies centres in the world. The solid and multidisciplinary basic research provides excellent foundations for applied and tailor-made research, as well as services for training and development. In addition, the FFRC continually develops the scientific foundation and methods of futures studies.

Forum Foundation
The Forum Foundation ....Conducts futures research in the field of Administrative Theory and Many-to-Many Communication technology to discover those dynamics which tend to move organizations and institutions, universally, toward solving their problems and anticipating or adapting to changes in their internal or external environment.

Foundation For the Future, Bellevue, Washington
Foundation For the Future was established with the mission to increase and diffuse knowledge concerning the long-term future of humanity.

Fraunhofer ISI
The Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI analyzes the framework conditions for innovations. We explore the short- and long-term developments of innovation processes and the societal impacts of new technologies and services.

Future Problem Solving of New Jersey
The Future Problem Solving Program (FPSP) is a nonprofit educational corporation administering creative problem solving activities for students since its founding in 1974 by creativity pioneer, Dr. E. Paul Torrance.

Next Big Future
Nextbigfuture is the Lifeboat Foundation Technology Research News Website. The Lifeboat Foundation is a nonprofit nongovernmental organization dedicated to encouraging scientific advancements while helping humanity survive existential risks and possible misuse of increasingly powerful technologies, including genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and robotics/AI, as we move towards a technological singularity. Technology is an important factor in solving and creating many of the Lifeboat relevant issues.

Prout College
On-line courses on macrohistory, spirituality, sustainability, alternative futures, Sarkar studies, and more.

Tamkang University, Taiwan
The Graduate Institute of Futures Studies commence from fall 2002. Its major objective is to integrate various disciplines to meet the megatrend of “learning revolution.” The institute emphasized a transdisciplinary approach in facing the new era of globalization, information-oriented education and future-oriented education. The institute also puts great emphasis on local society's historical and cultural development in a broader context of globalization. The students will receive long-range, forward-looking and integrative training so as to become future leaders that have insights and visions.

The AC/UNU Millennium Project
The Millennium Project was founded in 1996 after a three-year feasibility study with the United Nations University, Smithsonian Institution, Futures Group International, and the American Council for the UNU. It is now an independent non-profit global participatory futures research think tank of futurists, scholars, business planners, and policy makers who work for international organizations, governments, corporations, NGOs, and universities. The Millennium Project manages a coherent and cumulative process that collects and assesses judgments from over 2,500 people since the beginning of the project selected by its 35 Nodes around the world. The work is distilled in its annual "State of the Future", "Futures Research Methodology" series, and special studies.

The Future of Children
The Future of Children is a collaboration of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and the Brookings Institution. The mission of The Future of Children is to translate the best social science research about children and youth into information that is useful to policymakers, practitioners, grant-makers, advocates, the media, and students of public policy. The project publishes two journals and policy briefs each year, and provides various short summaries of our work. Topics range widely -- from income policy to family issues to education and health – with children’s policy as the unifying element. The senior editorial team is diverse, representing two institutions and multiple disciplines.

The Manoa Journal
The Manoa Journal of Fried and Half-Fried Ideas (about the future) is an occasional paper series published by the Hawai'i Research Center for Futures Studies (HRCFS). Established by the State Legislature in 1971. Archives are available online from 1992.

The Millennium Project
The Millennium Project was founded in 1996 after a three-year feasibility study with the United Nations University, Smithsonian Institution, Futures Group International, and the American Council for the UNU. It is now an independent non-profit global participatory futures research think tank of futurists, scholars, business planners, and policy makers who work for international organizations, governments, corporations, NGOs, and universities.

The Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH)
The Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH) Programme implements and disseminates results on EU research activities that address the major challenges facing the social, economic, political and cultural make-up of Europe.

Third Sector Foresight
Third Sector Foresight is an initiative of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO). NCVO is the largest umbrella body for the voluntary and community sector in England. NCVO believes passionately in the voluntary and community sector.

UNIDO - Technology Foresight
In response to requests by member countries, United Nations Industrial Development Organisation is implementing global and regional initiative on technology foresight in Asia, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Newly Independent States.

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