Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future
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The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University convenes symposia and conducts interdisciplinary, policy-relevant, and future-oriented research that contributes to long-term improvements in the human condition. The center’s focus is defined by its longer-range vision and is not confined to any particular set of issues. Its work seeks to identify, anticipate, and enhance the long-term potential for human progress; in all its myriad dimensions.
The Pardee Center’s Mission is defined along three dimensions:
Research: To facilitate intellectual inquiry and generate scholarly discourse and policy options on longer-range challenges and to seek to identify, anticipate, and enhance the potential for human progress in the longer-range future (35-200 years range).
Education: To cultivate a new generation of scholars working on interdisciplinary, policy-relevant, future-oriented, and global (or multi-national/regional) research that contributes to improvements in the human condition in the longer-range future.
Outreach: To establish linkages between the worlds of scholarship and practice for meaningful cross-learning so that scholarly insights on the possibilities of improved human well-being can be translated into practical programs of action.
