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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As the EU moves forward on its pledge to put Intergenerational Fairness (IGF) at the heart of its policymaking, the visioning phase has become an inspiring journey, filled with creative aspiration, honest dialogue and the practical tools we’ll need to build a Europe where every generation thrives.
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How will today’s democratic shifts shape the Europe of tomorrow? What new paths might develop in the EU's democratic landscape and how can these imagined futures equip policymakers to act more decisively today?
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Why you should be thinking about using games in policymaking environments .
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What do ants and EU trainees have in common and what transforms a scattered multitude into a purposeful network?
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Find out more about the foresight methods informing this year's Strategic Foresight Report!
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How do we better protect the natural world when biodiversity is under unprecedented threat? If we want to halt and reverse biodiversity loss, we need to address the behaviours that drive it and how we design policies. To do this, all actors in society are key.
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The Polycrisis Exploration Workshop Tool transforms foresight from an abstract exercise into an actionable, collective process.
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How can the EU stay competitive, while also safeguarding strategic autonomy?
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Imagine a Europe where the voices of the young, the old, those yet to be born, and even the living world (animals, plants and ecosystems) are all heard and valued equally around the same table.
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What if, instead of just preparing children and young people for ‘the future’ we could hand them the tools to shape it?
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