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Peering into the Future: How Horizon Scanning can help shape EU Policy

  • News | 24 Jan 2024
Strategic Foresight
Horizon scanning
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Blog post on EU Policy Lab site presents ESPAS Horizon Scanning project from the test phase to current ongoing practices. It describes the different steps and opens its role in EU policy. ESPAS Horizon Scanning exercise is building a community of future scanners, searching for ‘signs of new’ that are discussed in participatory sense-making sessions followed by collaborative meaning-making sessions to put these signals of change in context for the European Commission policymakers. These initiatives are all part of building more futures-literate European institutions.  

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Originally Published | Last Updated

24 Jan 2024 | 25 Jan 2024

Related project & activitiesESPAS Horizon Scanning
Related organisation(s)JRC - Joint Research CentreEPRS - European Parliament Research ServiceESPAS - European Strategy and Policy Analysis System
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Digital Europa Thesaurus (DET)foresightpolicymakingBetter regulation
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