What we do

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.

Technologies are not the future. However, the future is shaped by our capacity to anticipate them.

#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.

A portrait of how EU citizens imagine their futures; analysis of stories collected by #OurFutures

Making waste sorting more effective: A participatory design and behavioural science approach to developing harmonised waste sorting labels for the EU.

The Living Lab for Testing Digital Energy Solution (DES-Lab) in collaboration with the EU Policy Lab coordinates an experimental project using nine electric-vehicles charging stations at the JRC in Ispra. Unlike other charging stations, this project supplies each station with electricity produced by

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.

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

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