What is the ISM Resilient Futures Research Institute?
The ISM Resilient Futures Research Institute (RFRI) is a university-level research platform at ISM University of Management and Economics, launched in autumn 2026. It brings together faculty, doctoral students, and partners who study how people, organizations, and societies can thrive in times of geopolitical, economic, technological, and demographic change.
The Institute serves as ISM’s engine for research excellence and external funding. It enables its members to produce research that is internationally visible, methodologically rigorous, and socially relevant, and connects this research with business, policy makers, and the wider public.
At Resilient Futures, we aim to:
- Produce high-quality research: supporting publications, working papers, conference presentations, research collaboration, and international academic visibility.
- Win competitive external grants: building capacity to identify, develop, and win national, European, and international research funding.
- Strengthen research skills and culture: developing researchers’ methodological, writing, publishing, grant-writing, supervisory, and collaborative capacities at every career stage.
- Do research for business: expanding ISM’s collaboration with companies through joint research and research-based consulting, such as wargaming.
- Build reputation and impact: strengthening ISM’s profile as a research-active institution through international partnerships, public engagement, policy and practitioner relevance, and research communication.
Our research hubs
The Institute’s work is organized in research hubs: communities of researchers gathered around a shared challenge and societal needs.
Sustainable Careers Hub
Key question: How can people build productive, healthy, and meaningful careers across longer and changing working lives?
The hub studies ageing and longer working lives, diversity and inclusiveness, new forms of work, and the conditions that allow people to stay well and engaged at work throughout their careers. Hub lead: Prof. Dr. Bernadeta Goštautaitė.
Read more here.
Baltic Resilience Hub
Key question: How can individuals, organizations, and societies remain resilient under geopolitical, economic, technological, and other disruptions?
The hub brings together business, government, and academia to understand the changing threat environment in the Baltic region and to strengthen preparedness. Hub lead: Joe McMahon.
Read more here.
Contacts
Prof. Dr. Bernadeta Goštautaitė – Professor of Management, Head of the ISM Resilient Futures Institute – Resilient.Futures@ism.lt
Alina Kalachova – Research Project Manager, Coordinator of the Institute – Resilient.Futures@ism.lt