2 Thrakis
2313 Nicosia
Cyprus
- Democracy and community development
- Human rights
- International/Cultural relations
- Media
- Others
- Research
- Youth and education
Future Worlds Center (legally registered as Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute) is a non-profit, non-governmental, independent organization, active in implementing projects with a future orientation whose aim is to bring about positive social change and to encourage social entrepreneurship. Future Worlds Center (FWC) was founded in 1991 under the name of the Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute. FWC is an incubator of social entrepreneurs who envision, design, and implement projects that promote the culture of co-existence, human rights, and peace, using methods grounded in the latest methodologies, technologies, the science of dialogic design, and democratic dialogue.
FWC’s mission is to enable people to re-think and re-solve social challenges, both on the local and the European level. Its actions are positioned right at the edge of where social change can happen.
FWC’s projects are roughly clustered within three different units: New Media Lab: concentrates on the role of new media and technology in bridging the educational, economic, political and other gaps in society by facilitating learning. Future Designs Unit: envisions, designs implements peace projects in Cyprus and world-wide; and the Global Education Unit: promotes and supports active global citizenship through local, European, and global initiatives. The work focuses on equipping youth and educators with knowledge, skills, tools and competencies to raise awareness about global issues. Through intercultural dialogue, discussion groups with youth and youth leaders from all communities in Cyprus and workshops with pupils on how to take action for change, the Unit supports the public in their active citizenship skills and in planning and implementing their own actions. Moreover, FWC has extensive experience in coordinating, conducting, and supervising projects, trainings, conferences, and workshops beyond national boundaries with the use of modern technology for education. Its competencies are development of new educational models based on cognitive science and computing, world-wide operations focused on international development, and enhancement of inter-ethnic and international peace.