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This paper aims to present an overview of deep issues flanking the ideas of system and complexity, and an overview of the mentioned course as a proposal for systems thinking.

The paper provides a discursive overview of systems and philosophical concepts related to the described course.

The review offers a perspective of a super-system that includes the students, the lecturers and the context of their interaction, in which one may recognize a relational framework for social learning of a systemic sustainability.

The overview concerns only the actual intervention in the University of Trento.

The described concepts and related philosophical discussion may contribute to the integration of system thinking in the future studies.

The described intervention is a new Italian context and the integration of systems concepts with futures studies seems not to be commonly established.

The purpose of this paper is a presentation of the guiding ideas underlining the master degree course in social foresight recently launched by the University of Trento (Italy).

This paper is a reconstruction of the guiding ideas that have been used for designing the social foresight master degree.

Students are exposed to a mix of contributions from futures studies, the human and social sciences (including psychology of decisions, social change, values and secondary analysis techniques) and mathematics (not only statistics, but also system theory and simulation).

A unique look at the ideas behind the master degree course in social foresight at the University of Trento (Italy).