FuturICT

"The FuturICT Knowledge Accelerator is a previously unseen multidisciplinary international scientific endeavour with focus on techno-socio-economic-environmental systems. The ultimate goal of the FuturICT flagship project is to understand and manage complex, global, socially interactive systems, with a focus on sustainability and resilience...

"Specifically, FuturICT will build a sophisticated simulation, visualization and participation platform, called the Living Earth Platform. This platform will power Exploratories, to detect and mitigate crises, and Participatory Platforms, to support the decision-making of policy-makers, business people and citizens, and to facilitate a better social, economic and political participation."

"The FuturICT flagship proposal intends to unify hundreds of the best scientists in Europe in a 10 year 1 billion EUR program to explore social life on earth and everything it relates to."

The project is supported by scores of institutions all over the world (like the Club of Rome) but the two "Notable Individuals" involved are George Soros (and his Institute for New Economic Thinking) and Paul Crutzen.

People

 * Prof. Dr. Dirk Helbing - Scientific Co-ordinator
 * Prof. Steven Bishop - Management Co-ordinator

Contact
URL: http://www.futurict.eu