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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Reference Foresight Scenarios: How to Futureproof EU Policies?
How can EU policymakers ensure that their efforts today are futureproof and adapted to the constantly changing realities of our world?
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A Vision to Support the Digital Transition of Agricultural & Rural Communities
What does the future hold for farmers and rural communities? What will agriculture look like in 2040? More importantly, how can we ensure that rural communities reap the benefits of digital technologies, while staying true to their values and needs?
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Unlocking the Path to a Sustainable EU: The Science behind the 2023 Strategic Foresight Report
Discover the foresight process the EU Policy Lab undertakes every year to inform the European Commission’s Strategic Foresight report. Join us as we take you behind the scenes and unveil the innovative methodologies we have used in the process.
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Future forward and...beyond
In our fast-paced world, every day, policymakers face the critical challenge of making informed decisions that will shape the future. To meet this challenge head-on, the cultivation of foresight and anticipation skills are essential.
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Technology foresight: anticipating the innovations of tomorrow
Technologies are not the future. However, the future is shaped by our capacity to anticipate them.
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The future of Europe: futures imagined by Greek citizens
#OurFutures collects EU citizen’s images through a narrative inquiry method. In Greece we did this in close collaboration with the Foresight Unit - Presidency of the Government. We reached out to Greek citizens and gained insights about how people in this part of Europe imagine the future.
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- #OURFUTURESForesight

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