Competence Centre on Foresight

More and more generation Y employees are demanding that their employers meet specific values.

New approaches to work increase the role of project-focused teams, the gig-economy, freelancers, and micropreneurs.

Data is of substantial economic value and the IT sector is expected to continue to grow in the future.

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

The transformation towards a fairer society will involve a re-design of how production chains work.

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...

Fiscal strategies, social protection and labour market policies should consider support the increasing independent, solo-preneurship, and flexible work systems to address the root-causes of the emerging work...

Non-standard forms of employment -- e.g., all forms of employment other than a full-time permanent contract -- have increased over the past few decades in both...

Rapid implementation of automation and robotics and the emergence of AI and IoT are radically changing the work environment. Smart homes, virtual secretaries, AI doctors, care robots...

The "digital revolution" is impacting everything, from economy, innovation, science and education, to health, sustainability, governance, and lifestyles. Digital technologies will fundamentally change business models, institutions...