Aims
The main aims of the Futures Academy include:
- Testing policies directed towards evolving a sustainable future.
- Identifying the ‘key drivers of change’ that might impact on the future of sustainable development.
- Providing executive training and trans-disciplinary education in the concepts, methods and techniques of Futures Studies.
- Developing an approach for decision-makers and practitioners involved in forward planning that will lead to effective successful solutions.
Read more about this topic: The Futures Academy
Famous quotes containing the word aims:
“...a fixed aim furnishes us with a fixed measure, by which we can decide whether such or such an action proposed is worth trying for or not, and as aims must vary with the individual, the decisions of any two people as to the desirableness of an action may not be the same.”
—Anna C. Brackett (1836–1911)
“In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“The aims of life are the best defense against death.”
—Primo Levi (1919–1987)