Embracing the unknown: Jaana Venkula’s path to navigating uncertainty In an era where the rules-based world order feels increasingly threatened and the future feels impossible to predict, many of us feel paralyzed by strategic anxiety. Traditional western philosophy often focuses on changing "minds", attitudes, motivations, and values, to influence behavior. However, the philosophy of Jaana Venkula flips this assumption on its head with a radical starting point: “In the begin

Learning to navigate uncertainty is a time taking journey. TRIC offers practical frameworks and tools to make this process structured, safe, and impactful for individuals. We live in a world where uncertainty is no longer a temporary crisis, it is the baseline. Rapid technological shifts, societal changes, and unpredictable futures challenge our sense of security. But what if we stopped trying to eliminate uncertainty, and started practicing it as a skill? Within the TRIC pr

The objectives of communication and dissemination in the TRIC project are to maximize the visibility and impact of TRIC results, support the uptake of the tools and methods developed within the project, and build a community of practices around uncertainty competence. Project partners contribute by producing content and disseminating it through multiple channels within their own networks, considering their target groups and local contexts. This ensures that TRIC messages rea

The international TRIC team from Finland, Poland, Denmark, Spain and Austria shared an interesting workshop online on April 10, hosted and facilitated by Hanna Haliseva and Markus Vähälä from Kukunori. In the workshop, we focused on developing content for our forthcoming Impact Strategy Workbook, maximizing the impact of the TRIC project and received valuable insights from the TRIC team.

The future belongs to professionals who can navigate the world and its complexities with confidence, not despite uncertainty but through it. So, in a world that's increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA), how do we prepare the next generation of professionals to handle the experienced uncertainty productively? That's exactly the question the PUNC (Professional UNcertainty Competence) project set out to answer. Brought together by six European partners