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Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI)

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Description

The Edinburgh Futures Institute challenges, creates, and makes change happen. The Institute is focused on tackling today’s increasingly complex issues by bringing people and disciplines together to spark the unexpected and make better futures possible. It is creating a new environment for learning, teaching, research, and innovation, side-by-side with students, communities, businesses, and industry.

Currently active

Yes

Offers funding

Yes, this infrastructure provides funding in the following categories:

  • Bursaries
  • Funded fellowships

Founding year

2018

Contact details

1 Lauriston Place
Edinburgh
Midlothian
EH3 9EF
Website: https://efi.ed.ac.uk/
Public email: efi@ed.ac.uk
  • @UoE_EFI

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Categorisation

Type

  • University-based infrastructure
  • Institute

Tags

  • Design tag
  • Law tag
  • Information studies tag
  • Digital humanities tag
  • Policy tag
  • Sustainability tag
  • Philosophy tag
  • Ethics tag
  • Data science tag
  • Creative industries tag
  • Social justice tag
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) tag
  • Education tag
  • Climate Change tag
  • Tourism tag
  • Policy studies (keyword) tag

Parent infrastructure(s)

Alan Turing Institute

The Alan Turing Institute, headquartered in the British Library, London, was created as the national institute for data science in 2015. In 2017, as a result of a government recommendation, artificial… read more about Alan Turing Institute

British Library
96 Euston Road
London
NW1 2DB
United Kingdom

Ada Lovelace Institute

The mission of the Ada Lovelace Institute is to ensure that data and AI work for people and society. Members believe that a world where data and AI work for people and society is a world in … read more about Ada Lovelace Institute

Nuffield Foundation
100 St. John Street
London
London
EC1M 4EH
United Kingdom

University affiliation(s)

University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh

Partner Universities

Heriot-Watt University

Additional Partnerships

National Robotarium; Bayes Centre; Edinburgh International Data Facility; Nesta; Innovation Unit; Scottish Policy & Research Exchange; National Robotarium; Bayes Centre; Edinburgh International Data Facility; Nesta; Innovation Unit; Scottish Policy & Research Exchange

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2026-02-13 16:41:49

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