Adrian Pop, Chair of the Romania Node of The Millennium Project, will be running an online course on “Strategic Foresight for Social Sciences: Concepts, Methods, and Case Studies”, from February 23 to May 31, 2024, at CIVICA – European University of Social Sciences.

The course is addressed to graduate and doctoral students in social sciences interested to gain introductory knowledge in foresight theory, methods and practice. In order to successfully cope with accelerated change, students need to understand contemporary and future global and regional challenges, anticipate future developments and their implications and impacts globally and regionally, and proactively prepare for them. The course aims to offer basic professional training and studying in the field of futures research with a focus on social sciences in general and international politics in particular.

The course is structured on three inter-related sections. The first section provides an overview of the evolution of Futures Studies as a discipline and the main concepts with which it operates, pinpointing the differences between them, as well as the interplay between International Relations and Futures Studies in the complexity context. The second section offers a summary of various methods and models used in Futures Studies. Last but not least, the third section is more practical oriented, exemplifying with selected international relations case studies as well as the students’ own individual written projects some of the theoretical and methodological knowledge gained so far.

For more information about the course, visit the CIVIVA ESR Course Catalogue (eui.eu): https://civica.eui.eu/PhDCourseCatalogue/FrontOffice