Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
Created in 1969
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Bryghusgade 8, 3rd floor, 1473 København, Denmark
København
Denmark
Employees
Scale: 11-50
Estimated: 92
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Value proposition
[Automatic translation follows] An independent, non-profit futures think tank — founded in 1969. We equip you to act on the future, today.
The Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies (Instituttet for Fremtidsforskning) is an independent, non-profit futures think tank – founded in 1969.
We help people and organisations imagine, work with, and shape their future.
The Institute was founded in 1969 by former Danish Finance Minister and OECD-Secretary General, Professor Thorkil Kristensen, with the support of visionary public and private organisations, to better qualify decision-making through futures studies and to contribute to the betterment of our society. That is our purpose.
The Institute is today a truly global entity working with public, private, philanthropic, and academic organisations around the world. We act as an advisory, a publisher, an event organiser, and as an initiator of various future orientated joint-venture initiatives. The Institute is also configured as a community of sorts, offering memberships for organisations and individuals.
We believe that, as the Institute itself, the future belongs to no-one and yet to everyone. We are by decree here to contribute to the betterment of our society, meaning better for the largest possible number of stakeholders. Our own definition of better is based on our perception of our Nordic values firmly rooted in trust, equality, openness, integrity, and inclusiveness, and a society where critical decisions about the future are based on insights, not intuition.
Our research within futures studies is essentially about spotting initial signals, identifying patterns, and convert analysis into insights about potential futures. The Institute does not predict the future, this is of course impossible, but instead we generate the best possibly qualified assumptions for potential futures.
All of the Institute’s profits are allocated to further futures studies and to realising our purpose.
Membership, Publications, Advisory, Talks, Courses, Initiatives, Events, Foresight, Futures Studies, Futures Literacy, and Strategic ForesightOriginal language
An independent, non-profit futures think tank — founded in 1969. We equip you to act on the future, today.
The Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies (Instituttet for Fremtidsforskning) is an independent, non-profit futures think tank – founded in 1969.
We help people and organisations imagine, work with, and shape their future.
The Institute was founded in 1969 by former Danish Finance Minister and OECD-Secretary General, Professor Thorkil Kristensen, with the support of visionary public and private organisations, to better qualify decision-making through futures studies and to contribute to the betterment of our society. That is our purpose.
The Institute is today a truly global entity working with public, private, philanthropic, and academic organisations around the world. We act as an advisory, a publisher, an event organiser, and as an initiator of various future orientated joint-venture initiatives. The Institute is also configured as a community of sorts, offering memberships for organisations and individuals.
We believe that, as the Institute itself, the future belongs to no-one and yet to everyone. We are by decree here to contribute to the betterment of our society, meaning better for the largest possible number of stakeholders. Our own definition of better is based on our perception of our Nordic values firmly rooted in trust, equality, openness, integrity, and inclusiveness, and a society where critical decisions about the future are based on insights, not intuition.
Our research within futures studies is essentially about spotting initial signals, identifying patterns, and convert analysis into insights about potential futures. The Institute does not predict the future, this is of course impossible, but instead we generate the best possibly qualified assumptions for potential futures.
All of the Institute’s profits are allocated to further futures studies and to realising our purpose.
Membership, Publications, Advisory, Talks, Courses, Initiatives, Events, Foresight, Futures Studies, Futures Literacy, and Strategic Foresight
Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
We help people and organisations imagine, work with, and shape their future. The Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies is an independent, non-profit think tank established in 1969. By building the capabilities necessary to address potential futures we help create a society fit to meet the challenges and grasp the opportunities we face.
https://cifs.dk/
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