Competence Centre on Foresight

A forward looking sociotechnical exploration of existing, emerging and potential applications based on blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) for industrial/non-financial sectors.

New generations entering the workforce and older generations working longer are changing employment, career models, and organisational structures.

Non-state actors, global conscientiousness, social media and the internationalisation of decision-making are forming new, multi-layered governing systems.

Increasing global connectedness will continue to foster the interaction among non-state actors beyond states capacity to control it, thus challenging in several ways traditional...

Augment individual intelligence could eventually create functional geniuses, fundamentally changing the education and learning systems. Future prejudices could emerge between those who...

Future of Learning: Preparing for Change - The central learning paradigm is characterised by lifelong and life-wide learning, shaped by the ubiquity of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). To reach the goals...

An increasingly knowledgeable society is exponentially rising the amount and quality of knowledge that becomes ubiquitously available. Knowledge is becoming more accessible to everyone everywhere as never before. There...

Transnational organised crime is estimated as having a budget twice larger than all military budgets combined. How much influence and governing power could non-state actors...

Globalisation of all sectors — economic, security, information, technological development, etc.— together with increased mobility and solidarity of the population worldwide are accelerating the spread and implementation...

Policymaking has to adapt to an increasingly digital and data-driven world as well as an increasingly (dis)informed citizenry. AI algorithms are increasingly impacting all aspects of life and add...