Briefs
EFP Brief No. 132: Target 2020: a Quantitative Scenario on Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions for the EU 25
An integrated quantitative scenario analysis was conducted to elaborate, describe and evaluate strategies and paths for the European Union to achieve significant reductions in domestic greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. [...]
EFP Brief No. 131: Banks & Future Preparing for the Scenario 2015
In the Innovation Forum “Banks & Future” (Innovationsforum “Bank & Zukunft”) under the academic direction of Fraunhofer IAO (Germany), numerous banks and IT service companies have pooled their competences with [...]
Read More... from EFP Brief No. 131: Banks & Future Preparing for the Scenario 2015
EFP Brief No. 130: Migration: One of the Most Important Challenges for Europe
This brief presents major social, technological, economic, environmental and political trends and rationales for migration, followed by a number of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of migratory processes. In the [...]
Read More... from EFP Brief No. 130: Migration: One of the Most Important Challenges for Europe
EFP Brief No. 129: Rural Areas: One of the Most Important Challenges for Europe
This brief presents an overview of major trends and policy options for rural areas. A number of social, technological, economic, environmental and political trends as well as strengths, weaknesses, opportunities [...]
Read More... from EFP Brief No. 129: Rural Areas: One of the Most Important Challenges for Europe
EFP Brief No. 128: Third Czech National Research Programme (2009-2014)
A national foresight exercise aimed at identifying research priorities for the Czech National Research Programme III, through which about 20 % of public R&D funds are to be allocated from [...]
Read More... from EFP Brief No. 128: Third Czech National Research Programme (2009-2014)
EFP Brief No. 127: Malta’s Futures for Higher and Further Education
The main aim of this initiative was to promote more long-term futures and evidence-based approaches to governance, strategies, and policy development in the higher and further education in Malta under [...]
Read More... from EFP Brief No. 127: Malta’s Futures for Higher and Further Education
EFP Brief No. 126: “In the Long Run” Best Practices for New Foresight Conditions
The objective of this foresight brief is to summarise foresight experiences made by foresight practitioners of international companies attending the conference “in the long run” in Berlin in October 2004. [...]
Read More... from EFP Brief No. 126: “In the Long Run” Best Practices for New Foresight Conditions
EFP Brief No. 125: Technology Foresight on Cognition and Robotics
This technology foresight project was motivated by the significant resources recently invested, both nationally and internationally, in the development of increasingly advanced and complex robots. There is a need to [...]
Read More... from EFP Brief No. 125: Technology Foresight on Cognition and Robotics
EFP Brief No. 124: Foresight to Strengthen a Regional Innovation Strategy – the Case of Lower Silesia
The UPRIS foresight exercise built upon the Regional Innovation Strategy (RIS) of the Lower Silesia region in Poland. The foresight complemented RIS with a broader based and longer-term know-how for [...]
EFP Brief No. 123: Scenarios 2026 for the South West of England
This study (which took place in 2004) presents four ‘socio-economic-political scenarios’ designed to stimulate, guide and inform strategic thinking about the future of one of nine English regions, namely the [...]
Read More... from EFP Brief No. 123: Scenarios 2026 for the South West of England