Educating for the Unforeseen (DU-INN)

Using educational science and innovation to prepare managers and employees to work with unforeseen events

Basic Research Project (NIFU-USN), funded by NFR (2021-2024). Project number 325870/H20

Many events contain unseen elements. These can have consequences for you and I, for those dealing with the event and for society in general (eg. Pandemics, terror, financial crises, and natural catastrophes). Our main question is therefore: How can we best prepare ourselves for the unforeseen?

Education and training help, but education is traditionally based on a curriculum with specific learning content and detailed learning aims. What if we don’t know what should be learned?