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Committee for the Future

​The Committee for the Future is an established, standing committee in the Parliament of Finland. The Committee consists of 17 Members of the Finnish Parliament. The Committee serves as a Think Tank for futures, science and technology policy in Finland. The counterpart cabinet member is the Prime Minister. The Committee was established in 1993.

Committee's mission is to generate dialogue with the government on major future problems and opportunities.  At least once during its term of office, the Government issues a report (Government's Future Report) on long-term future prospects and the Government's targets which is submitted from the Prime Minister's Office to the Parliament. The main task of the Committee for the Future is then to prepare the Parliament's response (Parliament's Future Report) to the Government's Report on the Future. By this way Finnish Government and Parliament can recognize important political themes at such an early stage that different alternatives and policy lines are still completely open and under development. Since 2017, The Government´s implementation for Agen­da2030 for Sustainable Development is also submitted to the Commit­tee for the Future during each electoral term.

Committees other tasks are statements (draft submissions) to other committees in relation to other Government reports or budget and foresight projects and reports to examining different kind of societal issues and technological development. The most important efforts are devoted to these Committee’s own issues, its own projects. The power of decide its own agenda is one of the pillars of the strength of the Committee. 17 parliamentarians themselves stake out policy lines for the future. The time perspective is long and the scale of issues broad.

​​The World Summit of the Committees of the Future

​The World Summit of the Committees of the Future brought together, for the first time, the committees responsible for dealing with future issues in different parliaments. The World Summit was held in the Parliament of Finland on 12—13 October 2022 (Little Parliament building).  

​​Homepage of the summit​

English press releases

Publications in English

2020–​​

TuVJ 3/2022  ​​The World S​ummit of the Committees of the Future 2022​ (pdf)

​TuVJ 1/2021 Towards a better future : technological opportunities and threats to the promotion of sustainable development (pdf)

TuVJ 3/2020 Development of Genetic Engineering in Different Areas of Application 2018-2020 (pdf)

2015–​2019

TuVJ 13/2018 Committee reports 2015-2018 (pdf)

TuVJ 10/2018 Societal transformation 2018–2037 (pdf)

TuVJ 5/2016 For the Next Generations : report of the International Seminar in the Finnish Parliament 7–8 June 2016 (pdf)

TuVJ 2/2016 Technological change 2013–2016 : preliminary investigation of the development of radical technologies after the 2013 review (pdf)

2010–​2​014

TuVJ 11/2014 100 Opportunities for Finland and the world : radical Technology Inquirer (RTI) for anticipation/evaluation of technological breakthroughs (pdf)

TuVJ 10/2014 An Enabling State – experimenting Finland (pdf)

TuVJ 9/2014 Russia as a Neighbour (pdf)

TuVJ 7/2014 Chinese–Finnish green growth cooperation (pdf)

TuVJ 1/2014 Crowdsourced off-road traffic law experiment in Finland - Report about idea crowdsourcing and evaluation (pdf)

TuVJ 5/2013 Black swans : what will change the world next? (pdf)

TuVJ 1/2012 Crowdsourcing for democracy : a new era in policy-making (pdf)​

​​TuVJ 10/2011 Summary: The welfare model – taboos and black point (pdf)

2005–​2009

TuVJ 6/2008 Mertpolises, Asia and General Culture (pdf)

​TuVJ 4/2008 ​ Very many democracies : a festschrift presented to Kauko Sipponen on his 80th birthday 
​– Very many democracies​ -julkaisun saatavuus Eduskunnan kirjastossa

Report by the Committee for the Future on the Council of State (Government) report. Part 1, "Finland and the future of Europe". Tulevaisuusvaliokunta, 1997.
– Finland and the future of Europe -ju​lkaisun saatavuus Eduskunnan kirjastossa​

​​The models on success. Part 2, China : report on seminars in the Finnish Parliament 7.3.1997 and in Finlandia House 11.3.1997 organized by the Special Parliamentary Committee for the Future. Paula Tiihonen. Tulevaisuusvaliokunta, 1997.
– The models on success. Part 2 -julkaisun saatavuus Eduskunnan kirjastossa​

The models on success. Part 1, Southeast and East Asia : report on video-seminars in the Finnish Parliament 13.– 4.6.1996 organized by the Special Parliamentary Committee on Finland's Future Optios. Paula Tiihonen. Tulevaisuusvaliokunta, 1996.
– The models on success. Part 1- julkaisun saatavuus Eduskunnan kirjastossa​

Report no. 1/1994 of the Special Parliamentary Committee set up to Consider the Government Report on Charting Finland's Future Options. Tulevaisuusvaliokunta, 1995.
– Report no. 1/1994 -julkaisun saatavuus Eduskunnan kirjastossa​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​