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  • Topic / Tool | Last updated: 11 Dec 2024
Futures Literacy

- understanding why and how we use the future to prepare, plan, and interact with complexity and novelty.

Foresight

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  • Futures literacy helps people understand why and how we use the future to prepare, plan, and interact with the complexity and novelty of our societies. In the context of EU policy making, futures literacy is one of the crosscutting competencies for innovative policymaking. 

  • Being futures literate is essential for embedding foresight into policy making. It equips policy makers to take informed, future-oriented decisions. 

  • The Competence Centre on Foresight offers trainings, engagement tools and practices to develop skills and competences to foster futures literacy. In addition, we conduct a variety of participative foresight projects to engage policymakers, stakeholders and other citizens in futures thinking.

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Foresight trainings

Participative foresight projects

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PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES | 25 Mar 2026
Future-oriented Policymaking
The project aims to support foresight capacity building in EU Member States and to integrate future-oriented thinking into decision-making
PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES | 25 Mar 2026
ESPAS Horizon Scanning
The European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS) brings together EU institutions and bodies who are committed to thinking longer term about the challenges and opportunities...