Eyes to look at the future

Foresight explores long-term futures and creates shared visions for policy-making.
The Competence Centre on Foresight supports EU policy-making by providing strategic and future-oriented input, developing an anticipatory culture inside the European Commission, continuously experimenting and developing different methods and tools to make foresight practically useful for decision-making processes.
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The future of Europe: what do you imagine it will look like?
A portrait of how EU citizens imagine their futures; analysis of stories collected by #OurFutures
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- Foresight#OURFUTURES

Future of Government 2030+
The role and form of government are changing. Identifying requirements for future governments allows us to rethink their structures and processes and explore what they might look like in the future.
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- ForesightFuture of Government

Farmers of the Future
The aim of the study is to identify possible future professional roles of farmers in 2040 and to explore potential implications for relevant EU policies. The study will combine different methodological approaches and is exploratory in nature
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- ForesightDesign for policy

Last Bootcamp of DLT4EU Accelerator: DLT-solutions for public and social sector soon ready
The Bootcamp of the DLT4EU programme, a major milestone in this Accelerator programme supported by the DLT4Good project, with focus on the use of Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) in social and public sectors
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- Foresight

Forward-looking reflection on the future of EU environmental policy and the 2050 sustainability transition
This foresight study developed long-term visions for eco-industries (Horizon 2035), identifying relevant trends and drivers, highlighting implications for EU policies and describing realistic and desirable possible futures.
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- Foresight

Experiencing possible customs futures before taking the plunge
The top rungs of customs administrations across the EU explore future scenarios at the Helsinki High-Level Seminar on Strategic Foresight and the Future of the Customs Union.
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- Foresight

Exploratory workshop – Future trends and farmers in 2040
A workshop initiating the exploration of the Farmers of the Future, to discuss trends and their impacts towards 2040 regarding farmers’ professional and social roles.
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- Foresight

How do we build scenarios in a foresight exercise?
The process of building scenarios in a foresight exercise and the role of scenarios in a world of uncertainties, going through continuous transformation
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- Foresight

#Blockchain4EU: Blockchain for Industrial Transformations
Blockchain for Industrial Transformations is a forward looking exploration of existing, emerging and potential applications based on Blockchain and other DLTs for industrial / non-financial sectors.
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- Foresight

Non-ferrous Metals Manufacturing: Vision for 2050 and Actions Needed
This report comes at the end of a yearlong process during which the EU Policy Lab worked with representatives of the non-ferrous metals industry and other associations from this sector, researchers, trade unions and our EU-policy-making colleagues.
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- Foresight