The (New) Case for Wage-Earner Funds

Research seminar with Markus Furendal, Post-Doc in Political Science, Stockholm University, and Martin O'Neill, Professor of Philosophy at University of York. Abstract In our presentation we make the

The European Social Fund (ESF) aims to be more successful in helping people to get a job than Arbetsförmedlingen. The Institute for Futures Studies has studied the results of a variety of projects and

The more things change, the more they stay the same. A follow up of participants in Social Fund financed projects

Research report 2014/5, 77 p. Every year in Sweden, over one hundred thousand job-seekers are assigned to local labour market policy measures, of which a large proportion are financed with money from t

Research at the Institute is structured around a research program, usually conducted over a period of six years. What they all have in common is the futures perspective and the fact that they are all

The Institute for Futures Studies is an institute for social science research focusing on issues deemed important for the future.

Sakli(g)t 2024: Sveriges första sakprosafestival

Sakli(g)t is Sweden's first festival of literary non-fiction, organized by the Rikstolvan cultural centre outside Simrishamn in collaboration with the Institute for Futures Studies and Linnaeus UniverGiven the central role of non-fiction as a knowledge-transmitting link between science and the public, Sweden needs an arena where the narrative non-fiction book is the focus of in-depth discussions on the politically increasingly hot issues of facts, truth, narrative, reality and how form and aesthetics affect both knowledge itself and what knowledge becomes viable in today's technologically mobile media landscape. Such meeting places for producers and consumers of the documentary genre have long existed in the neighboring Nordic countries, but have not yet existed in Sweden.This year's program includes author talks with Åsa Wikforss, Nicolas Lunabba, Saga Cavallin, Johan Hilton, Lyra Ekström Lindbäck, Gudrun Schyman, Lasse Berg and Elena Kostiutjenko. In total, 50 authors will appear at the festival. Read the . Get .Together with Rikstolvan, the Institute is a co-founder of the festival, which was launched last year. A permanent establishment of the festival has been made possible with funds from the Institute for Futures Studies, Linnaeus University, the Nature & Culture Foundation, the Swedish Academy, the Swedish Arts Council, Simrishamn Municipality and Region Skåne.

Bo Rothsteinhold the August Röhss Chair in Political Science at University of Gothenburg, a position established by a donation to the university in 1901. He has also held positions at Oxford Universit

Place: At the Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, or online. REGISTER HEREResearch seminar with Markus Furendal, Post-Doc in Political Science, Stockholm University, and Martin

Venue: Holländargatan 13, Stockholm Research seminar with Erez Maggor, Assistant Professor at Ben-Gurion University. He studies the political economy of industrial policy and innovation. Register here &

I am a philosopher and law scholar, visiting professor at the Institute for Future Studies. I am a Maitre de recherches at the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (Brussels) and a professeur extraordin