Foresight Community News
The European Foresight Platform (EFP) is a network building program supported by the European Commission’s (Framework Programme 7). It aims at building a global network of networks bringing together different communities and individual professionals to share their knowledge about foresight, forecasting and other future studies methods. For more information about EFP please click here or contact the project coordinator: Susanne.Giesecke@ait.ac.at.
On this homepage of the foresight platform, you find information about current and past foresight projects, conferences, workshops, press articles and other future studies information, e.g the sucessor of the wellknown forlearn foresight guide. Please considere to apply for registration here, to get full access. The following public list provides a small selection of current news about the foresight community.
Is your Foresight exercise not represented as a Brief on the EFP website yet? Use the occasion and disseminate your interesting forward looking project to a widespread audience of practitioners, academics and other interested readers from the European Commission, the European Parliarment, national ministries, universities and other research organisations, NGOs and international audiences such as the UNIDO. Readers of EFP Briefs come from all over the world and like to learn more about your experience. Please share your knowledge with us and send a Brief to Susanne.Giesecke@ait.ac.at. You can find the template for EFP Briefs here. The new filter function will make it easy for the EFP Community to find the Briefs of their interests, e.g. by looking for a special topic or country.
The OECD has recently released an interesting report on the future of familiy and household structures. From their website: This report explores likely future changes in family and household structures in OECD countries; identifies what appear to be the main forces shaping the family landscape between now and 2030; discusses the longer-term challenges for policy
Start: January 1, 1970 12:00 am
Author: Bas van Schoonhoven
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The British Academy of Management Conference 2012, organized in September at Cardiff University, UK, has a Strategic Foresight track focusing on foresight in organizations. From the conference website: The Track focuses on developing greater understanding of Strategic Foresight in organization’s day to day thinking, acting and the link to strategizing and (long term) strategies. Strategic
Start: September 11, 2012 || End: September 13, 2012
Author: Bas van Schoonhoven
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The Manchester Institute of Innovation Research is organizing a conference titled “Demand, Innovation and Policy”. From the invitation: “The current policy focus is on the intelligent use of public procurement of innovation, but increasingly a more comprehensive mix of tools are being applied. However, current ‘demand-side’ policy practices are not broadly underpinned by academic studies on appropriate
Start: March 22, 2012 || End: March 23, 2012
Author: Bas van Schoonhoven
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From the workshop website: “The goals of the Europe 2020 initiative of the European Commission for reviving the economy of the European Union can be briefly summarised as the achievement of “Smart, Sustainable, and Inclusive Growth” with greater coordination of national and European policy by 2020. How to achieve these goals and to maintain European
Start: December 12, 2011 || End: December 13, 2011
Author: Bas van Schoonhoven
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The EU is considering spending 1 billion Euros on the FuturICT flagship project. This project has as its goal to utilize the opportunities offered by the developments in ICT to integrate ICT, Complexity Science and the Social Sciences, and in doing this create a paradigm shift, facilitating a “symbiotic co-evolution of ICT and society.” Some quotes: “This
Start: January 1, 1970 12:00 am
Author: Bas van Schoonhoven
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