Competence Centre on Foresight

Non-ferrous Metals Manufacturing: Vision for 2050 and Actions Needed Textiles and Clothing Manufacturing: Vision for 2025 and Actions Needed

This foresight study aims to leap forward, envisioning plausible medium- and long-term futures for the European labour markets. It aims to shed light on how jobs will...

Scenario Exploration System that pictures four future scenarios using societal values and fiscal framework, from traditional to highly supporting sustainability.

Explores how effective standards contribute to jobs and growth in a sustainable manner, by highlighting priorities for the development of standards in the future.

Circular economy can bring a positive net effect on job creation, provided that workers acquire the skills required by the green transition. By moving towards a more circular...

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

Demographic Scenarios for the EU - Migration, Population and Education, Joint Research Centre, European Commission and International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) (2019). Ageing...

Regional demographics of working-age population are deepening: by 2050, the number of people of 20-64 years old will decrease (compared to 2015) by 49 million in Europe, by 22...

If current patterns continute, the total size of the EU labour force is projected to decrease during the next four decades. The projected decrease will come from the part...

How a smaller labour force shall provide for a larger proportion of retired persons is increasingly a matter of concern in some regions of the world. Rising old-age dependency ratios...