Welcome to our 14th International Conference

TO BE YOUNG!

Youth and the Future

6-8 June 2012

Sigyn Hall, Turku, Finland

What does it mean to be young today and what will it mean in the coming years of this rapidly accelerating world?
What will future of youth be and look like?

Finland Futures Research Centre explores essential themes on the Youth and the Future during its 14th Annual Conference in June 2012. The aim of the conference is to perceive and create futures through the eyes of today’s youth, adults and decision makers for the young people of the future. The course of a youth’s life, both today and toward the future covers an entire spectrum of reality. Focusing on faith in young people, their ability and determination to build an inevitably different and in many ways, an improved world for us all to live in is the focal point of this conference.

The conference is organised in association with the Finland Futures Academy and the Finnish Youth Research Network.

Our distinguished keynote speakers:

-          Les Back (UK), Professor, Goldsmiths, University of London
“New Hierarchies of Belonging: Young Lives in a Divided but Hyperconnected World”

-          Enric Bas (SPN), Professor, Director, University of Alicante
“Creative Futures. The Role of Youth in a Brand New World”

-          Jennifer Gidley (AUS), Ph.D., President, World Futures Studies Federation
“How do the Megatrends of the Mind impact Today’s Young People?”

-          Tuuli Kaskinen (FIN), Researcher, Demos Helsinki
“How and Why Generational Change Drives Sustainable Lifestyles?”

-          Leena Suurpää (FIN), Ph.D., Research Director, Finnish Youth Research Network
“Rethinking Youth Engagement”

The conference is designed to be an integrative, informative and interpretative conference between academics, public sector and corporate representatives whose main interest is youth and the future. Besides keynote lectures, there are parallel workshop sessions organised using traditional as well as new non-traditional methods.

Register now to ensure your attendance to the conference:

http://www.futuresconference.fi/2012

Welcome to Turku on June!

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The “To Be Young” conference marks Finland Futures Research Centre’s 14th Annual International Conference and its 20th Anniversary celebrating twenty years of quality academic research.

Finland Futures Research Centre: http://utu.fi/ffrc

Finland Futures Academy: http://www.tvanet.fi/en/

Finnish Youth Research Network: http://www.nuorisotutkimusseura.fi/en

Viestin välitti,

Sarianne Karikko

Järjestösihteeri

Nuorisotutkimusseura ry 

Asemapäällikönkatu 1 (2. krs), 00520 Helsinki

sarianne.karikko@nuorisotutkimus.fi

puh. 020 755 2657