Manufacturing Engineering: Economical use of electricity by using equipments that require less electric energy. Consume more greener energy as a replacement of source of electricity-like solar and wind. Integrate circular economy while deisgning, purchasing, final usage and scrap value.

Restaurant industry: Usage of organic products, master food management and manage and minimise food waste. Use seasonal based products, and the chef should be able to adapt according to local availability of seasonal foods. Reduce carbon wastes.

Printing and media: Usage of eco-friendly inks and use of sustainable resources. Teaching involves sustainability, encourage experimentation, also printing one copy before the whole load is printed.

WEAK SIGNAL: Green washing/ viherpesu. It is more used as a marketing tool.

Ethical usage of AI. Use AI more as a tool, rather than use it for decision making.

Implementation of digital twins. Before the final result use experimentation and simulation. Reduce costs.

Use of AR & VR for teaching purposes. Using of AI machine robotics in different fields.

Use of digital/electronic platforms for teaching.

Restaurants also can use AI to minimise food waste. Stick to megatrends. Digitalisation of kitchens enable green transition in culinary industry.

Social Media: Increasingly becoming source of communication. But the authenticity of reliability of facts is questionable.

WEAK SIGNAL: Over dependence on AI is losing human touch.

Educational insititutions have partnerships & international collaboration with eachother as well as workplaces. example: erasmus programmes

Exchange of culture and study curriculums.

Internalisation helps the individuals to understand the local culture and tailor to the culture appropriate needs.

This also helps in making humanity richer by learning different languages and understanding cultures.

WEAK SIGNAL: Shift back to local from global

Globalisation: Earlier there was a lot of outsourcing productions but geo-political issues are changing this towards more local.

Rise of forced immigration cos of geo-political issues.

Freelancing is becoming more common. It will help to work beyond borders.

Hence teaching should focus on enhancing skills required for enterpreunership.

In Finland it is easy to start but not sustain a business. There needs to be a cultural, political and mindset change.

Enterpreunership could be a key to innovation - which inturn can solve world problems. It could be seen as a support for job creation, especially in times of unemployment.

WEAKSIGNAL in finland: Policy change needed inorder to help with mindset and cultural change.