Discovering EFI from Behind my Laptop
This summer the usual office job was not an option. One of our summer interns, Anne van der Poel, reflects on her unusual internship experience – delivering on goals from a distance.
My Wee Journey with Edinburgh Futures Institute
EFI’s student intern Paulette Mukarurangwa shares her experience of joining the team – from virtual tea breaks to online event planning – and tells us how remote interning worked for her.
EFI collaboration with Edinburgh partners empowers students to drive change
Over the summer, more than 120 undergraduate and postgraduate students tackled complex challenges posed by public, private, third-sector and community organisations in the latest Students as Change Agents Programme (SaCHA).
Data innovation key to creative sector’s recovery
New report finds more support to help the City Region’s creative sector develop through better use of data-driven innovation and technology.
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.
