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The Edinburgh Culture Conversations will bring together members of the public, artists, academics and cultural leaders to debate the future shape and purpose of the culture sector. 

Edinburgh Futures Institute’s launches its first undergraduate course in September 2020 offering students a multi-disciplinary elective focusing on the Covid-19 pandemic…

World-first collaboration between University of Edinburgh, FDATA and Fintech Scotland receives £22.5m from UKRI and will be a cornerstone for EFI's fintech proposition...

EFI confirms the winners of this year’s Research Awards. Successful projects projects receive up to £5,000 to explore a wide range of issues...

In the course of making the Closes & Opens film, the filmmakers had an opportunity to speak with Sir Geoff Palmer about Scotland’s role in the slave trade and the shadow of its history evident …

EFI Deputy Director and Doctoral Researcher in Philosophy, Owen Kelly, explores how the coronavirus pandemic has made us re-evaluate the nature of a 'good' life and why we mustn't lose sight of it.

The coronavirus pandemic is financial markets’ greatest ‘grey rhino’ (but it won’t be the last). Dr Gbenga Ibikunle considers the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on financial markets, and what this means for our economic …

EFI is publishing a series of blogs that allow our community to respond to the existing crisis of COVID 19 through a variety of lenses and perspectives. 

EFI announced recipients of its first student research awards for 2019/2020 today.

Following the premier of her film Closes and Opens, Liz McFall (EFI Chancellors Fellow) discusses the history of the Royal Infirmary and how cities plan and think about the future.

EFI Events and Coronavirus planning Our ethos is to be outward-facing and open - welcoming engagement and collaboration across the University, across local and global communities and with our partners. We run many public events and …

What’s on your list for top reads in Data Driven Innovation? Edinburgh Futures Institute is calling for recommendations for new library materials, in particular, in the areas of social aspects of data driven innovation. EFI is …

A briefing note from the Centre for Future Infrastructure in November 2019 reviewed how the UK was performing against Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 3.6 - to halve road fatalities between 2015 and 2020.  

In 2018, a Centre for Future Infrastructure Briefing Note explored the challenge of meeting road safety global goal targets.

From George Orwell to extra-terrestrial terrain, culture-seekers at this year’s Edinburgh Festival and Fringe will have the chance to see how Scotland’s creative community is harnessing data and AI to produce thought-provoking multimedia experiences.