Conference papers
Please send your paper and presentation to Erzsebet Novaky and a copy to Tamas Gaspar not later than 12 August. The instruction for authors helps you finalizing your conference paper. Please pay attention that your paper discusses an aspect in relation to action for the future via interplay of generations.
Technical support available for presentations: projector+computer, overhead projector, blackboard. In case you have any special request, please contact Peter Bakos from the Organising Committee.
The structured abstracts have created sessions and forums that provide different aspects of the conference topic. If you feel like adding comments to any of the abstracts or open a discussion in any of the sessions, please see the discussion forum.
The list of accepted conference abstracts:
Alács, Péter: Uncertainty studies in developing better future models
Asija, Pal: Sustainable futures of the universe
Bachika, Reimon: Values: affect and rationality
Balázs, Judit: Security of economy – asymmetric war: a new era in security policy
Bartha, Zoltán: The effect of information & communication technologies on the
mobility of knowledge
Benedek, András: Future of Learning in the Mobile Age
Botos, Katalin and Brunnhuber, Stefan: Our future monetary system
Cinquerani, Riccardo: Citizenship, generational partnership and civil governance
Cordeiro, Jose: Future generations among humans and posthumans
Dator, Jim: Age-cohorts, k-waves, and future generations
Dator, Jim: Unbound to fail? A strong nation with a weak state: America's current path and challenging futures
Dienes, István: The importance of consciousness researches in the cooperative living of different generations and in their successful aducation
Dunagan, Jake and Reynolds, Bruce: A Futures Generations Seal of Approval
Erős, Adrienn: The role of fiscal instruments in enhancing competitiveness and
economic growth
Florescu, Elisabeth: Future ethical issues
Florescu, Elisabeth and Cordeiro, Jose: State of the Future Index
Gáspár, Judit: Corporate foresight – an attempt to listen to the voice of futures
generation in the strategy making processes
Galántai, Zoltán: A possible scenario on the future of „Human Rights”
Gasparikova, Jana: Future studies and globalization
Gaudin, Thierry: Technology-society interaction during the 21st century
Gidai, Erzsébet: System-exchange in higher education and lifelong learning
Gilányi, Zsolt: The interrelationship of sustainable futures and demographic transitions
in closed bank-money economies: some scenarios
Goux-Baudiment, Fabienne: Cultural value and orientation of scenario-building
Groff, Linda: The challenge of cultural and religious diversity and peacebuilding in an
interdependent world, with implication for future generations
Groff, Linda: The future evolution of humanity
Gubik, Andrea: Future challenges of small and medium-sized enterprises
Hayward, Peter and Voros, Joseph: Generating futures
Hayward, Peter: Inside the foresight mind
Hideg, Éva: Youth generation and the paradigms of futures studies
Hofmeister-Tóth, Ágnes and Simányi, Léna: Values in transition
Hronszky, Imre: Drawing a historical lesson: toward prospective technology studies?
Hurley, Karen: Is that a future we want? An ecofeminist exploration of images of
the future in contemporary science fiction film
Iván, László: Different generations and gerontology
Jones, Christopher, B. and Denning, Kathryn E. L.: Historical consciousness and
sustainable futures
Kalas Kőszegi, Mária: Generations in the future
Kapolyi, László:
Kelly, Patricia: Opening eyes and minds: teaching for social foresight in higher
education
Kiss, Endre: Globalisation and future shaping
Kolber, István: Chances of generations in different territories
Krawczyk, Elzbieta and Ratcliffe, John: Imagine ahead – plan backwards:prospective
methodology in urban and regional planning
Lentner, Csaba: The centers of learning of the Hungarian universities in attached of sustainable development
Ligvoet, Andreas: The supply and demand of e-skills in Europe
List, Dennis: Envisioning the invisible
Lowe, Ian: Shaping a sustainable future
Lutz, Rüdiger: Beyond globalization: the (all)secret tranCeoformation to planetary integration
Mannermaa, Mika: Democracy and the futures
Mezey, Gyula: Risk management paradigms in decision-making
Mettler, H. Peter: Converging technologies
Miller, Riel: Improving the effectiveness of scenarios for decision making: a hybrid
strategic scenario methodology for developing three levels of futures literacy
Mizuta, Kazuo: Legacy for the 21st century: a vision of a cultural personality in the
year 2020
Molnár, László: Some moral aspects of sustainable development
Molnár, Péter and Vass, Zoltán: Pessimistic futures generation for pessimistic future
generations
Nagy, Zoltán: Stroke prevention and care of stroke patients
Nelson, Ruben: Consciousness matters: exploring the intellectual foundations of a co-
creative society
Nováky, Erzsébet and Kappéter, István: How do students relate to changes?
Ortt-Saeed, Jocelyn: Distant horizons
Paffendorf, Jerry: The future of video games, online virtual worlds, simulation technologies and the geo-spatial web
Pitlik, László, Pető, István and Bunkóczi, László: Objective awarding as the possibilities
of similarity dissection
Ramba Varga, Viorica: Science and law – a paradoxical contemporary divorce in the 21st
century
Ramos, José: The communication of foresight
Ramos, José and Gáspár, Tamás: Youth and WFSF: a generational approach
Ristic, Dusan and Radun, Victor: The spiritual paradigm and the factors of shifting of
global economy to the spiritual economy
Ruiz, Raul and Climent, Fran: Future situation of the ethnic businessman in the ICT society: building tech companies
Sallee-Kereszturi, Barbara: Long-term junior entreprises and their effect on a sustainable
future
Schweiger, Robin: The contribution of young people in building a different future for
the Catholic church in Slovenia
Slaughter, Richard: From forecasting to integral futures: implications of a forty year
overview of futures methodologies
Szegő, Szilvia and Vass, Csaba: Continuity and brakes in the generational reality:
a future with braking strains – the example of Hungary
Szita-Tóth, Klára: Food systems and sustainability
Tonn, Bruce: Human extinction scenarios
Tonn, Bruce, Conrad, Fred and Hemrick, Angela: Cognitive representations of the future: survey results
Tóth, Ferenc L.: Charting sustainable futures: intergenerational linkages in global
environment and energy supply
V. Csorba, Éva:
Vág, András: The floating world-modelling philosophy
Varga, Csaba: Meta-theory, future vision, participating democracy
Varga, Károly: Delphi-consultation of Hungarian sociologists on the occasion of our
accesion to the European Union
Visegrádi, Ildikó: The future of knowledge society
Vitalini, Roberto: Sharing for Faster Growth: communication and computing technologies amplify human talents for cooperation
Voros, Joseph: A nested hierarchy of civilisational visions
Woodgate, Derek: The new generation gap
Zidansek, Aleksander:
Future of sustainable development education
Zsolnai, László: Responsibility for future generations