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The study offers an insight to the project called “Hungary 2025” that aimed at building future alternatives based on complex understanding of the future. With the younger generations in focus the research went beyond discovering the future orientation of youth and developed complex social futures alternatives. Our paper introduces the methodological approach and the empirical foundations of the project...
The Futures Studies Department at the Corvinus University of Budapest conducted a few strategic foresight projects at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The goals of two projects were to increase the regional competitiveness of two towns in Hungary; whereas, two other projects dealt with the long-term, 15- to 20- year-long, macro-development opportunities of Hungary. They focused on defining...
In the mid-1990s a theoretical definition of future orientation was elaborated by Hungarian futurists Nováky, Hideg and Kappéter to conduct empirical research on the capacity of human foresight under given historical conditions. Future orientation is a way human thinking is manifested, where thoughts are filled with preconceptions, imagination and expectations. Our research has shown that the following...
The significant social changes and unstable social–economic processes we are undergoing require more participation and more future oriented grassroots activity both in designing the possible future alternatives and in the actions for the realization of them. Action oriented futures studies and participatory futures studies are in close connection, because orientation towards actions and participation...
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