The School of Skills of the Future

ABOUT THE SCHOOL

The School of Future Skills is a block of educational lectures and classes for participants of the HORIZON 2100 project, within the framework of which you can gain knowledge in various fields: forecasting, foresight skills, sustainable development and other theoretical materials on interdisciplinary topics. In addition, all students who took part in the project also took part in foresight in order to develop their own projects on selected topics.

EXPERTS

The Center for Modeling the Future invited experts in various fields to act as lecturers of the School of Future Skills in order to share knowledge and competencies in various fields, to gain the necessary skills for further project work.

SCHOOL OF SKILLS OF THE FUTURE. STAGE 1. TUTOR SCHOOL

The first stage of the School of Future Skills was held from September to December 2023 for youth tutors of the HORIZON 2100 project at two sites - Russia, Moscow and Ecuador, Cuenca. At each of the sites, the lesson was held in the local language - Russian and Spanish. At each of the sites, 10 classes were held, combined into thematic blocks, during which the recorded lectures were shown to tutors, after which the authors of the lectures answered questions of interest, the participants arranged a discussion on the topic.

THEMATIC SCHEDULE OF CLASSES FOR THE TRAINING OF YOUTH TUTORS WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE (ECUADOR-MOSCOW)

SCHOOL OF SKILLS OF THE FUTURE. STAGE 2. PREPARATION OF PARTICIPANTS

The school was mandatory for the winners of the competition, invited to the forum to participate in the project further. So, in January 2024, the 2nd stage of the School of Future Skills took place - the training of forum participants. The entire school was held entirely online under the guidance of the organizers and tutors who went through the school of tutors.

Before the start of the School, a webinar was held in Russian and English, where the participants got acquainted with the organizing group and tutors of their teams. Also, frequently asked questions from participants were previously collected, which the organizers answered during the webinar. Participants were able to freely ask any question about the School and the project as a whole.

All sessions were held on the Google Classrooms platform. Video lectures were posted on the YouTube platform, and then integrated into Classrooms, where assignments for each of the topics were also published. Each session was open according to the program, and participants could watch lectures and complete tasks in their free time (within the set deadline).

The school program included a total of 10 sessions, in which the participants, who had previously reviewed the material and completed the task, took part in discussions with tutors in an online format .

Experts also took part in the discussion of lecture topics and interdisciplinary areas. These trainings were aimed at developing a scientific work that will be presented at the international forum "SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT BY 2100: FORECASTS, VISIONS, SCENARIOS AND PLANS. Each session lasted about 2 hours of face-to-face work on Zoom and 2 hours of self-study.

Following the results of the thematic sessions, a 2-day foresight was held with moderator Alexander Alexandrovich Chulok. The foresight session was aimed at developing foresight skills – brainstorming by participants who had already prepared projects as part of teams by the beginning of the session.

At the foresight session, the participants in teams identified various trends in the social, scientific, technological, environmental and other spheres, identified a set of actions necessary to counter threats and take advantage of the opportunities created by trends, and made a final presentation with the results obtained. It was during the final session that the participants were able to present their projects, work out the knowledge gained during the School and prepare materials that were presented at the Forum in February 2024.

During the school, tutors kept the participants motivated, planned their own schedule of discussion sessions within the teams, and could gather online at any time convenient for everyone. At the discussion session, participants could share their opinions about the video lecture, ideas, impressions and ask any organizational questions. Tutors recorded the degree of participation of each participant in their team and monitored the completion of the task in Google Classroom.

THEMATIC SCHEDULE OF CLASSES WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE

RECORDINGS OF THEMATIC LECTURES

Lectures in other languages, as well as other materials can be found on our Youtube channel

• A.Andreev FUTUROLOGY short course.pdf
• A.Turchin, M.Batin Futurology.pdf
• Ageev A.I. The double bottom of the future.pdf
• D.Yusupov FUTUROLOGY - METHODS, PATTERNS, FORECASTS....pdf

RESULTS

A total of 113 people took part in the school: 58 participants worked at the School of Future Skills in Russian, 14 participants in English, 41 people from Latin America in Spanish. The participants represented 21 countries of the world, including Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Egypt, India, China, Trinidad and Tobago, Zambia, Turkey, Jordan, Panama, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico, Cuba.

15 teams were formed, which included 1 youth tutor and from 6 to 14 participants united in the chosen direction.

The participants mastered all the information in an online format. All sessions were held on the Google Classrooms platform.

The school's program included a total of 20 sessions – 10 for youth tutors in October – November 2023 and 10 for participants in January 2024. The sessions included video lectures uploaded on YouTube, zoom sessions, discussions with youth tutors and answers to expert questions.

The final session was held in a 2-day format by moderator Alexander Chulok in 3 languages: English, Russian and Spanish. At the Foresight session, team participants identified various trends in social, scientific, technological, environmental and other areas, identified a set of actions necessary to fend off threats and use the opportunities created by trends, and prepared the results in the form of presentations of their foresight projects.

The School of Skills of the Future allowed the participants not only to prepare well for the forum, gain new knowledge and foresight skills, but also to understand that futurology is a complex science that takes into account a variety of areas, risks and opportunities for global changes in human life at the level of civilization or nation in the near or distant future.

PARTNERS & SUPPORT

The project was implemented using a grant from the President of the Russian Federation for the development of civil society, presented by the Presidential Grants Foundation.

The foresight session is organized by the Center for Modeling the Future, partners and co-organizers are the Presidential Grants Foundation, the International Research Institute of Control Sciences, the V.A. Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Institute for the Development of Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences.