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Competence Centre on Foresight

We foster a strategic, future-oriented and anticipatory culture in the EU policymaking process.

Collection of Foresight Engagement Tools

Foresight engagement tools are designed for arranging participative workshops to support decision making, explore systemic topics and encourage long-term thinking.

  • Page | Last updated: 21 Mar 2025

The Megatrends Hub

Megatrends Tool

Megatrends are long-term driving forces that are observable now and will most likely have significant influence on the future.

 

Polycrisis Exploration Workshop

Risk cards

Workshop tool to facilitate strategic conversations about current and future risks, disasters, and polycrisis.

 

Digital Transition Toolkit

Digital Transition Tool

Toolkit for strategic conversations on digital transition for farmers and rural communities. 

 

Reference Foresight Scenarios

Reference Scenarios Tool

Four scenarios for the global standing of the EU in 2040 offer strategic reflections which can serve as a compass for decision-makers navigating under increasingly unpredictable circumstances.

 

The Scenario Exploration System (SES)

SES serious game

Teaching and simulation tool to experience your possible paths towards the future, in relation to a certain topic.

 

 

FuturGov Game

Future Gov Tool

Tool to stimulate policy debates offering structured conversations that can examine multiple viewpoints on a given policy and examine socio-political actors’ landscape.

 

Migration Discussion Toolkit 

Immigration Tool

Seven discussion formats for a forward-looking debate on migration and integration.

 

 

Complex System Analyser

Workshop-based tool designed to facilitate the systems thinking approach.

System mapping tool

#DLT4Good Scanning

DLT4 Tool

Data exploration tool to support anticipatory policy-making on Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) for social and public good.

Industrial Landscape Vision Generator

Industrial Landscape Generator Tool

Workshop tool designed to engage with industry sectors, develop shared long-term visions and identify challenges and opportunities.

Related reading
PUBLICATION | 28 May 2026
Powering the Future
This technology foresight report presents the process and findings of a Horizon Scanning exercise conducted in the context of FUTURINNOV (FUTURe-oriented detection and assessment of emerging technologies and breakthrough INNOVation), a collaboration...
PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES | 10 Jun 2026
FUTURINNOV
The FUTURINNOV project supports the European Innovation Council (EIC) in building strategic intelligence capacity through foresight and other anticipatory approaches. This is done through activities to identify...
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