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Kazimieras Simonavičius University’s Big Data Competence Centre, in cooperation with the team at the strategic insight tool Futures Platform, is organising an open lecture on future insights named “Future or futures?” The lecture speaker will be Finnish scientist, futurologist and insights expert Dr. Tuomo Kuosa. The remote lecture will be held on April 8 at 4PM. We invite you to participate!
Often we associate predicting the future with mysticism, however, for long years now, this has also been an object of scientific study. Future insights are a means of thinking about the future, pondering on it and planning, creating innovations in various areas of public activities in pursuit of increased efficiency and increasing competitiveness in the face of contemporary global changes.
Futures Platform expert, futurologist Dr. Tomas Kuosa, who holds 15 years of experience in strategic insights, the development of future studies methodology and other areas related to future predictions will discuss:
Registration will be held here up to April 7.
Dr. Tuomo Kuosa
Dr. Tuomo Kuosa is one of the founders of Futures Platform, the head futurologist and the director of the content team. He has more than 15 years of experience in strategic insights, horizon scanning, scenario, future studies methodology creation, public change forecasting and lectures on the future. Dr. T. Kuosa has written tens of academic works and four books on insights. He works in Finland and Singapore, consulting various organisations around the world.
Futures Platform is a strategic insights tool, which helps companies plan their operations in consideration of changes looming in the future. The tool was created and commercialised by Finnish scientists and specialists in 2016. It allows to foresee trends and form a broad perception of social changes in technology, economics, the environment and politics. The unique Futures Platform information vault holds data on more than 700 future phenomena. More about Futures Platform can be found here: https://bit.ly/2QXhm1N
Big data studies, research and practical application are some of the priorities of Kazimieras Simonavičius University, thus the university has founded its Big Data Competence Centre – a platform for international big data and data economics cooperation. More about the centre can be found here: https://bit.ly/3bFW8xe
Kazimieras Simonavičius University is accepting applications for its Future Insights and Strategic Management Studies Programme. This is the first educational future studies programme in Lithuania. Read more on it at: https://bit.ly/2R31bjJ
Kazimieras Simonavičius University Big Data Excellence Centre has become the official representative of Futures Platform in Lithuania. Futures Platform is a strategic insights tool that helps companies plan their operations in light of future changes.
Developed and commercialized by Finnish scientists and specialists in 2016, the Trend Forecasting Tool provides a broad picture of social change in technology, economics, environment and politics. The unique Futures Platform information repository holds data on over 700 future phenomena. Futures Platforms operates on a SaaS (Software as a Service) principle.
Prof. Dr. Jari Kaivo-oja
“What’s happening in the world right now illustrates the need for and the benefits of this type of tool,” says Dr. Jari Kaivo-oja, Professor of Kazimieras Simonavičius University, Head of the Master’s Programme in Future Insights and Strategic Management. According to him, the world has long lived under so-called VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity) conditions. Volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity are elementary parts of many emerging phenomena, COVID-19 phenomena as well (https://www.futuresplatform.com/blog/covid-19-world-after). Under these real-life conditions, standard solutions are not appropriate and new agile methods are needed. Strategic insights and tools, such as Futures Platform, provide frameworks where both businesses, politicians and NGOs can explore the future, develop and test business strategies, and plan for change. This strategic foresight tool, which can be tailored to organizations for their special business and social needs, is widely used in European industries and business operations.
Prof. Dr. Arūnas Augustinaitis
The Futures Platform tool provides a wealth of detailed and useful information on global trends in various fields. This helps anticipate future changes and plan the organization accordingly, both in the short and long term, to keep up with global trends and to prevent investments in areas that will be less relevant in the future. Collaboration tools offered by the Futures Platform make it easy to involve team members or other stakeholders in processes.
“For example, municipalities can use the Futures Platform tool when planning urban and regional development scenarios, involving all stakeholders in the strategic process and see not only how their planned development correlates with global urban and regional development trends, but also with all stakeholders,” says Prof. Dr. Arūnas Augustinaitis, Lecturer of the Master’s Programme in Future Insights and Strategic Management.
Saku Koskinen
“The recent global developments and the wild card, called Covid-19, has once again proven the importance of continuous foresight and horizon scanning work. We work daily with world leading organizations on future related processes and activities, and lately we have seen a strong signal from these organizations to build continuous and automated AI based foresight systems and solutions. There are two main reasons behind this development. First, a clear lack of time and resources to carry out these activities. Second, it is no longer enough to understand the trends and impacts of you own industry or domain, there is a need to be able to scan the future with a wider scope. That is why we at Futures Platform want to develop a world leading foresight platform,” says Saku Koskinen, Foresight Expert and Partner Futures Platform.
Creating updated future scenarios with Futures Platform is not a one-off project every few years. It is a consistent communication of the latest developments in trends that are important to the organization and its operations. A core feature of Futures Platform is the visual Trend Radar which visualizes which trends are affecting the future. By creating a digital radar around your theme of interest, you can see in a single image the holistic, 360-degree view of changes related to your theme. This tool helps CEOs and management teams work together with updated foresight analyses. The radar provides direct, one-click access to relevant articles and videos produced by experts on the future, providing a broader picture of how the world is changing. More about the Futures Platform can be found at www.futuresplatform.com. Currently, the Futures Platform is used by organizations such as Business Finland, Fortum, Fiskars Group, the European Commission’s Joint Research Center (JRC), IESE Business School in Barcelona, and other leading organizations.
For more information, please contact KSU Chancellor Darius Verbyla, E-mail: darius.verbyla@ksu.lt, Tel: +370 612 78 493
More about Big Data Excellence Centre here.
Today the community of Kazimieras Simonavičius University congratulated the students for the most advanced achievements. KSU Rector Prof. Dr. Arūnas Augustinaitis, Director of the Study Department Ieva Nadvaravičiūtė, Director of the Business School Deimantė Žilinskienė and Director of Institute of Creative Society and Economics Dr. Mindaugas Kazlauskas awarded the students with study grants to pay for the upcoming semester.
Last semester excellent results were achieved by 1st year students of Aviation Management Simas Linkevičius and Ana Marija Sokolovskaitė, Entrepreneurship and Management student Nikita Mudrak, Fashion Industry student Miglė Bivainytė, Entertainment and Tourism Industry student Jekaterina Smagina, 2nd year Marketing and Advertising student Erik Miliuškevič, 3rd year Aviation Management student Marta Kovalchuck, Law student Liudmila Legkova and Fashion Industry student Gloria Šamsutdinova.
Very good results were achieved by 1st year students of Aviation Management Emilia Koščic and Donata Navelskytė, and 2nd year students of Fashion Industry Laura Naidzinavičiūtė and Simona Vysockaja.
This summer from July 16th until 27th Turiba University in Riga will host NORDPLUS intensive course „Security and Active Citizenship”. We invite to apply students of all faculties, especially Security and Law programmes.
In recent years security issues have become important also to Baltic and Nordic countries. World is coping such challenges as migration, conflicts based on different cultural backgrounds, cyber-attacks and other new challenges. This leads to fact that there is need for high quality training for young security specialists.
Student will gain knowledge of assessment of security tactics for guarded sites, basics of tactical planning and implementation methods for threat prevention and their legal regulation; comprehensive knowledge of facts, theory and correlations necessary for carrying out work related tasks, personal growth and development, active citizenship and social integration. There will be topics of Stress Management in Crisis Situations, Globalization and Intercultural communication, Team-building as well as Active citizenship included in the course.
In this Course participants will be bachelor and master level students from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Finland. Lessons and practical seminars will be led by professors from 4 partner Universities as well as invited professionals.
Language of the Course – English, participation in the Course – free of change. Organisers will cover travel, accommodation, catering, study visits’ and free time activity costs. Students will receive 3 ECTS for the participation in the Course.
Please fill application form and send it to interntional@ksu.lt until 17 June. Only 6 students from KSU will get chance to participate in this course.
Feedback and video about the previous Courses can be found here.
This Course is implemented by Turiba University (Latvia) in a cooperation with Kazimieras Simonavičius University (Lithuania), Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia) and Turku School of Economics (Finland). Project receives financial support from NORDPLUS Higher education program. Project number: NPHE-2019/10177.
Kazimiero Simonavičiaus University continues developing an international cooperation network with foreign universities. Last week KSU has been visited by Olena Sviatun PHD, Associate Professor, Chair of Comparative and European Law, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
The guest and KSU Rector prof. dr. Arūnas Augustinaitis discussed the possibility of a double degree diploma in Master of Law programs.
A member of the European Parliament Antanas Guoga visited Kazimieras Simonavičius University yesterday. KSU Rector prof. dr. Arūnas Augustinaitis and KSU Business School Professor dr. Birutė Teodora Visokavičienė discussed the model of universal base income as an alternative of 21st century poverty, inequality and exclusion. Also, economic assumptions, sustainability and philosophy of adaptation of the universal base income model were discussed during the meeting. Activities and plans of KSU Global Economy Center have been presented as well as the researches carried out by KSU in the field of big data, future foresight and linguistic technologies.
Antanas Guoga and KSU representatives discussed about the development and innovative potential of Lithuania’s regions, economic development and social challenges.
Next week we kindly invite KSU students and others to open lectures at Kazimieras Simonavičius University given by international lecturers.
2 April – Lecturer Azra Ahmic from International University Travnik (Bosnia & Herzegovina) will give lecture “Sustainability Management”. Lecture will start at 8.30 in room no. 214.
6 April – Lecturer Rafal Ozarowski from University of Business and Administration in Gdynia (Poland) will give lecture “War in Syria as a battlefield of super and regional powers. The ways of seeking the conflict resolution”. Lecture will start at 14.20 in room no. 214.
On 7 – 8 March, Director of KSU Business School Deimantė Žilinskienė participates in the international conference “Entrepreneurship and Development from regional Perspective. Exchange of Academic Experiences among Erasmus+ Program Countries” where gives the report “Leading tendencies of regional development from the perspective of globalisation” and participates in the working group on international scientific cooperation in the fields of entrepreneurship and social innovation.
The conference is organised by KSU partner in Poland, University of Information Technology and Management.
Open inception workshop “Dos and Don’ts of Big Data for Foresight“ took place at Turku, Finland on 28 February, 2019. Workshop was organised by University of Turku (UT) (Finland) and Kazimieras Simonavičius University (KSU) (Lithuania) within the framework of KSU R&D project “Platforms of Big Data Foresight (PLATBIDAFO)”.
Participants from KSU, UT, other higher education institutions, public sector and industry discussed new models of Big Data and Future Foresight methodologies and their social and business applications. Speakers introduced innovative tools for identification and analysis of large-scale social issues, new mechanisms for business decision support and new approaches to strategic planning for decision-makers. Topics discussed at workshop included strategic positioning in Big Data utilisation, using world-class data science resources to create smart and wise Turku city, Big Data potential for integrated territorial policy development in the European growth corridors, new possibilities in crowdsourcing Delphi method in Future Foresight, using systematic Foresight tools (the case of Futures Platform).
The project “Platforms of Big Data Foresight (PLATBIDAFO)” is implemented by Big Data Excellence Centre at Kazimieras Simonavičius University and is financed by the Research Council of Lithuania. The project aims to create tools and methodologies, which will enable companies and organisations to tackle social problems by helping them to identify social exclusion, demographic change, regional development and other problems as well as spotting and predicting future trends.
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Today KSU hosted 30 students and professors from Belarus. Lithuanian higher education system, KSU study programmes and internationalisation were presented to the representatives of Economics University and Technical University. There were discussed cooperation possibilities in frames of joint study programmes and modules, international projects and academic exchanges.
Kazimieras Simonavičius University starts working on a unique and ambitious project – Platforms of big data foresight. Project aim to create new type digital Big Data plaƞorms that allow us create, organize and use digital content for economic and social well being of society using new methods joining Big Data and Future Foresight methodologies
The project is prepared on the basis of the smart specialisaton ‘Inclusive and creatve society’, which is designed to address the challenges and trends of the future, with partcular attenton to the uneven economic and regional development problems. The main result of the project – the Big data plaƞorm for future foresights – is a tool for identfying and analysing societal issues, antcipating future development scenarios and selectng appropriate strategies for their decision. Great data and informaton technologies are used to tailor future insight methodologies for the development of social and economic welfare. Future Foresight is a methodology of social science (political science, management and Administratve sciences) designed to identify existng social problems and to antcipate scenarios for the development of various social phenomena. Great data and other tools being investgated in the project enables the use of this methodology to address public Development, business development, economic growth and other challenges and opens up new ways and means of more effectve and accurate antcipaton of future scenarios and the choice of acton strategies.
The leader of the project is Dr Jari Kaivo-oja is international expert in the field of foresight and innovaton studies. He is reviewer in 15 scientfic journals. Currently he is foresight researcher in the Radical Innovation Breaktrough Inquirer, R&D project (RIBRI) in cooperation with Fraunhofer ISI (Germany) and Institutul de Prospectva (Romania).
Project results will be extremely valuable for future foresight in long term perspective, forecasting various social, economic, geopolitical processes, e.g. forecasting behavior of refugees and also start operating Hackathon events in the field of Big Data Economy and Foresight.
The project is funded by the European Regional Development Fund.
Kazimieras Simonavičius University together with Turiba University (Latvia) and Laurea University of Applied Sciences published collective monograph “Organizational and Individual Security”. The monograph was prepared in frames of Nordplus project “Development of Society and Organisation Security Programmes 2017”), No. NPHE-2017/10115. During the project the evaluation of Security programmes of 3 partner universities was done, also an international conference “Organizational and Individual Security” was held in Riga. The project was implemented from 1 September 2017 till 30 September 2018.
Monograph is also available online here.
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