Editing your profile

Whether you would like to update your picture, biography, or adjust your preferences, take a moment to personalise your profile, let the community know who you are and what inspires you!

1. View tab - Personal information and recent activity

View personal information

This is the default tab when you access your profile. Here, you can view:

• Name and surname
• Membership duration: how long you have been a Futurium member.
• Organisation
• Department

Note: To update you name, email or password, visit EU Login, as these details are managed through the European Commission’s authentication system.

Recent activity

Below your personal information you will find a summary of your latest interactions:

• Latest Posts you have published.
• Latest Events you have organised.
• Latest Comments you have posted.
• Groups you have joined. You can leave a group directly from this section.

2. Edit tab – Customise your profile 

Under the “Edit” tab, there are 3 additional tabs where you can find your EU Login information, manage your profile picture, biography, language settings and set your time zone.

EUlogin tab

Displays your EU Login email address, first name and last name. 

The information is greyed out so you cannot change it from here. To update these details, visit EU Login.

Info tab

Here you can add or update your profile picture and biography.

• Profile picture 
  • You can add, edit or remove your profile picture.
  • Supported picture formats: PNG, GIF, JPG, JPEG.
  • Maximum picture size 200 MB.
• Bio section (Biography)
  • You can add, edit or remove a short biography to introduce yourself to the Futurium community. 
  • Guidance: avoid sharing personal data (e.g. phone number, private email address). 
  • Text Formats: you can choose how your biography is displayed using basic HTML or plain text.
    • Futurium Basic HTML
      • Supported HTML tags: <br> <p> <h2 id> <h3 id> <h4 id> <h5 id> <h6 id> <cite> <dl> <dt> <dd> <span> <blockquote cite> <a hreflang name href> <ul type> <ol type start> <strong> <em> <u> <li>
      • Automatic formatting: Line breaks (<br />), paragraphs (<p>) and close paragraph tags (</p>), are inserted automatically. If paragraphs are not recognized, simply add a couple of blank lines.
      • Web page addresses and email addresses turn into links automatically.
    • Futurium Plain Text
      • No HTML tags allowed.
      • Automatic formatting: Line breaks, paragraphs are inserted automatically. If paragraphs are not recognized, simply add a couple of blank lines.
      • Web page addresses and email addresses turn into links automatically.

Misc tab (Miscellaneous)

• Language settings

  You can change your preferred language for communications via email, select the site language from the drop-down menu. 

• Locale setting – Time zone

  Select the country of your time zone. Dates and times throughout this site will be displayed using this time zone. 

   

3. My contributions tab

Here you will find a complete list of your contributions on Futurium, including your posts, comments and events.

• Grouped contributions

  Contributions are organised by group.

• Filtering options

  You can filter them by title or content type (post, event, comment). 

• Editing or deleting contributions

  Click on “Edit” link of any of your contributions to update its content or remove it. 

4. My Invitations tab

You can view the group membership invitations you received. 

When you log in, a status message at the top of the platform will remind you of any pending invitations. 

5. Notification Settings tab

By default, you will not receive notifications from any group you have joined. 

To change the notifications settings, select a frequency (never, send immediately, daily, weekly) from each group you joined, then save the information at the bottom of the page.