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.
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Famous quotes containing the word aims:
“We are often reminded that if there were bestowed on us the wealth of Crsus, our aims must still be the same, and our means essentially the same.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)
“Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.”
—Leo Tolstoy (1829–1910)