Competence Centre on Foresight

Scenario Exploration System that facilitates societal debate around nanotechnology development in Europe.

UN DESA - Population Division: World Population Prospects (2019) World Population Ageing (2019) Adolescents and Youth UN Population Fund - UNFPA...

AI Watch. Defining Artificial Intelligence, JRC, 2020 AI Watch, European Commission - Joint Research Centre (DG JRC) and Directorate General for Communications...

The media and policy organization could increase communication about accelerating advances in S&T, to encourage policy discourse, teaching in schools, and general public knowledge and debate. Innovative...

In the 2030s, humans might become hybrids with augmented intelligence, with the brains connected directly to the cloud via nanobots made from DNA strands; in the 2040s, thinking might be predominantly...

That many societies have a growing older population will have implications for economic growth, inequality, and the sustainability of public finances. Furthermore, population ageing has an impact...

Across OECD countries, R&D intensity (R&D spending as a percentage of GDP ) was 2.37% in 2017, a slight increase compared to 2.34% in 2016, but about stable...

The State of Health in the EU 2018 EU Action on Antimicrobial Resistance EU Food Safety More on this Megatrend

Assistive medical technologies; genetic engineering; highly specific drugs; molecular diagnostics and therapy tools with individualised approach at the cellular level are only some of the trends...

EUROSTAT Population Projections projects the likely future size and structure of the population. Trend and convergence scenarios for absolute and relative population values to the year 2060.