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Time is not a neutral backdrop to policymaking – questions of pace, timing and horizons have become central to what we govern. Learn more about our conversation at PolyFutures.
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- Foresight
- Design for policy
- Behavioural insights
Our idea for this "off-site day" was simple: to bring those shaping EU policies and institutional processes into the same room as design experts working in innovation, human-centred transformation, and futures thinking.
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How can policymaking become more rooted in how people think and decide? This was the starting point for the Discover Behavioural Insights for Policymaking workshop at the PolyFutures conference.
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- Behavioural insights
Technology foresight, like all foresight, is often misunderstood as attempting to predict what is coming. While it will not tell you the future, it can do something powerful: provide a structured way to explore possible futures and actively shape them.
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- Foresight
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We invited participants to engage in an unusual exercise: a conversation with young EU citizens from the year 2040.
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- Design for policy
- Foresight
We have been developing a scenario-building tool designed to shift how we think about the future. Rather than focusing on what different futures might look like, this approach asks a more fundamental question: how do values and attitudes shape the futures we create?
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- Foresight
If Europe is to navigate an age of overlapping crises, it needs to cultivate new cultures of governance, not just new tools. Here is how the PolyFutures event imagined them.
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- EU policy lab
- Design for policy
- Foresight
- Behavioural insights
Space is often discussed as if its future were already mapped out: more satellites, more launchers, greater competition, higher performance. Yet this framing leaves little room to question how these futures are imagined in the first place.
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- Design for policy
When artists, scientists, and policymakers collaborate over time, new forms of sense-making become possible: weak signals are detected earlier, insights flow across disciplines, and the very definition of what counts as evidence broadens.
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- Design for policy
- Foresight
The Future-Oriented Policymaking (FOP) project, in partnership with the Reform and Investment Task Force (SG REFORM), invites policymakers all over Europe to learn new ways of approaching policymaking.
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- Foresight