Helps identify emerging issues, weak signals of change and events that could lead to changes in behaviour, strategy or policy.
What we do
The Competence Centre on Foresight supports EU policy making by
- providing strategic and future-oriented input,
- developing an anticipatory culture inside the European Commission,
- continuously experimenting and developing different methods and tools to make foresight practically useful for decision making processes.
It was launched in 2018 during the conference Future-oriented Technology Analysis (FTA2018).
Brief me
- Foresight helps priority-setting and steering policies towards common long-term objectives.
- It is an action-driven collective intelligence exercise.
- It is structured, systematic, participatory and inclusive.
- Deals with the medium to long-term future.
- Informs present-day decisions and facilitates joint actions.
- Helps you plan major spending, define the strategy of your organization or transition in the economic or political system.
Explore our library of tools, use them in your organisation, and learn more about our foresight projects and trainings.
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Megatrends are long-term driving forces that are observable now and will most likely have significant influence on the future.
Teaching and simulation tool to experience your possible paths towards the future, in relation to a certain topic.
Data exploration tool to support anticipatory policy-making on Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) for social and public good.
Workshop-based tool designed to facilitate the systems thinking approach.
A guide to provide practitioners, policy makers and beginners the means to understand and practice foresight.
Tool developed to stimulate policy debates. You can play it in 4 to 8 persons, with a duration of approximatively 2h.
Workshop-based tool designed to engage with industry sectors, develop shared long-term visions and identify challenges and opportunities.
Seven discussion formats for a forward-looking debate on migration and integration.
