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Our program

The Institute offers a training program in Futures, Innovation and Sustainable Development, for participants from a wide range of backgrounds: Decision-makers at companies, State authorities and institutions, NGOs, entrepreneurs, artists, journalists, etc. The school has a full and flexible educational offering to train positive conspirators who will become builders, both individually and collectively, of desirable futures.

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Journey for Tomorrow's World

The LabSession is the Institute’s course on Futures, Innovation and Sustainable Development.

By encouraging participants to shift the way they see the world and to detect weak signals, and by drawing their attention to future-oriented experiments, the school aims to inspire and facilitate action so that everyone can build… their own desirable future.

Specifically

  • INTER-company training
  • 16 days of training spread over 6 months
  • 25 participants from different backgrounds
  • Speakers: 50 of the best experts and actors of change-makers on the future:
    • Exploring existing boundaries to overcome them: demography, biodiversity, climate, global governance, energy, food security, etc.
  • Projecting into the future to better anticipate it: participative governance, digital disruption, blockchain, neuroscience, transhumanism vs hyperhumanism, place-based resilience, data visualisation, perma-economy, open democracy, biomimicry, new managerial utopias, etc.
  • Various formats: talks, conferences, workshops (forsight, controversies, creativity) and multimedia tools.
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Exploring subjects more deeply

The FocusLab is a multidisplinary course to help you open up a range of possibilities by exploring the vast potential approaching specific subjects through practices guided by experts and change makers.

A FocusLab on the subject of biomimicry is currently ongoing in partnership with :

Goals:

  • Understanding biomimicry for inspiration and responsible innovation
  • Discover the tools needed to integrate it into your business
  • To integrate it into an ecosystem of actors involved in this process 

Specifically

  • INTER-company training
  • 4 days of training spread over 3 to 4 weeks
  • Inspiration: lectures, testimonials, videos, etc.
  • Experimentation: visits and excursions, practical cases, workshops, etc.
  • Collective: collaborative sessions, multidisciplinarity, friendly, etc.
  • Tools: tool kits, community of experts

Intra-company training

The IntraLab is an in-house course  in Futures, Innovation and Sustainable Development combining a face-to-face part and an online learning, co-designed on the basis of the challenges facing your organization.

This training course enables groups (teams, networks, trades, etc.) to reinvent their businesses, their organization and their activities by clarifying internal issues in terms of major changes in the world. By alternating between inspiring interventions, hands-on workshops and creativity sessions, the course will help to shift the focus of the group so that they can transform their professions and share a common culture of innovation and change.

Specifically

  • IN-HOUSE  training
  • 3 to 6 days attendance, spread over 3 or 4 months, alternating with exploration missions
  • Follow-up and on-line tools: post-R
  • 4 stages: challenges, changes, resilience, the future
  • Ad hoc training, adapted to the challenges and needs of organizations
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Our conferences

Our workshops

The Institute offers various workshops using prospective methods of collective intelligence and creativity.

These workshops are alternated:

  • Expert interventions to feed new thinking: trends, curve-jumping, weak signals, etc.
  • Time for collective reflection, exchanges and debates: multidisciplinary groups with facilitator, slow dating, controversy, etc.

Generally of 3 hours long, the workshops can accommodate between 12 and 50 people, depending on the organization.

Discover the different workshops offered by the Institute in the presentation brochure for our “educational offering”.

The Institute offers various workshops using prospective methods of collective intelligence and creativity.

These workshops are alternated:

  • Expert interventions to feed new thinking: trends, curve-jumping, weak signals, etc.
  • Time for collective reflection, exchanges and debates: multidisciplinary groups with facilitator, slow dating, controversy, etc.

Generally of 3 hours long, the workshops can accommodate between 12 and 50 people, depending on the organization.

Discover the different workshops offered by the Institute in the presentation brochure for our “educational offering”.

We will examine your challenges and goals together in order to jointly design the most suitable topics or days based on our educational components.

  • For several companies
    • LabSession
    • FocusLab
  • For individual companies
    • Cycles of programs
    • Cycles of prospective thought
    • IntraLab

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  • Components
    • The art of imagning the future
    • Reinvention workshop
    • Desirable futures championship
    • Toolbox
    • WhatIFs
    • Toolbox
    • Thematic conferences
    • Controversy
    • Slow Dating
For several companies For individual companies Components
General LabSession Lecture
Programmes
Lecture
Programmes		 Intralab

Lecture
Programmes 		The art of imagning the future
Reinvention workshop
Desirable futures championship
Toolbox
Themed FocusLab
(specialist courses) 		WhatIFs
Toolbox
Thematic conferences
Controversy
Slow Dating

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