Covid-19 pandemic is focus of UoE electives
Students will build skills and understanding of global challenges in two different electives featuring the pandemic and societal responses to it.
Future Present: Perspectives from the Edinburgh Futures Institute
Professor Shannon Vallor, Director of the new Centre for Technomoral Futures, asks why scientifically- and technologically-rich nations like the UK and the US failed in their response to the pandemic, and highlights the missing link for getting it right in the future.
EFI launches Centre for Technomoral Futures
The Centre for Technomoral Futures launches today with the aim to design more sustainable, just and ethical models of innovation.
EFI to host new Traveltech for Scotland organisation
Scottish Tourism receives hi-tech boost to help smooth road to recovery with the launch of Traveltech for Scotland. A new organisation supported by EFI to help Scotland’s tourism sector make a sustained recovery.
Coronavirus pandemic accelerates financial vulnerability support tool development
EFI research project working with experts from European leader in digital transformation, Sopra Steria, to develop a new data-driven tool to help people financially impacted by the coronavirus pandemic find and access the right support, now and in the future.
Why the creative communities are critical to coronavirus recovery
Director, UoE Festivals, Cultural and City Events, Janet Archer, explores how the arts can be part of our civic, emotional and economic recovery and why creative communities are critical to coronvirus recovery.
Future Present: Perspectives from the Edinburgh Futures Institute
Chair of the Strategic Advisory Panel for the EFI Centre for Future Infrastructure, Professor Gordon Masterton considers the impact of the pandemic on our tolerability of risk and the implications on our response to climate-change.
EFI plays vital role in FinTech community drive to tackle financial exclusion
EFI research project collaborating with partners across the Scottish FinTech sector to develop data-driven solutions to democratise financial advice, help people to manage their money and access essential benefits and affordable lending.
New online course pioneers EFI vision for hybrid learning
The coronavirus pandemic has challenged university teachers to design high-quality teaching without access to classrooms. Three lecturers at EFI rose to this challenge to create its first fully-online course, engage learners and enhance their teaching capabilities.
EFI responds to coronavirus pandemic with innovative research projects
The Edinburgh Futures Institute announces a raft of new data-driven research to boost economic and community recovery after the coronavirus pandemic.
