Archive for the ‘Security’ Category
Tuesday, January 29th, 2013
This brief gives an overview of the recent trends, drivers and ‘grand challenges’ in the area of security as they were iden-tified in the mapping and analysis of the 2nd EFP Mapping Report on Security Futures (Amanatidou et al., 2012). These findings were compiled from 16 different forward-looking activities (FLA), representing four types of FLA, namely: fore-sight, impact assessment, horizon scanning and forecasting. The selected FLA offer an interesting and complementary mix of national views and European perspectives.
Download EPF Brief No. 248_Drivers, Trends and Grand Challenges in Security
Tags: fla, forecast, foresight, horizon scanning, impact assessment
Posted in EU, Security, until 2050 | Comments Off
Friday, December 21st, 2012
Under the influence of (inter)national technological, political and economic developments, the Dutch defence industry is increasingly intertwined with and developing towards a civilian industry. Consequently, the political responsibilities, atti-tudes and criteria are changing for both the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Economic Affairs. An analysis of the Dutch defence industry helped to determine the main opportunities for innovation in the industry and to identify the com-plementary technological competences needed to make the most of them. A strategic vision, including options for innova-tion policy, was developed as well. In this follow-up brief, we reiterate the background, approach and results of the initial foresight study and describe its impact in the years to follow.
Download EFP Brief No. 236_Assessing Dutch Defence Needs_Follow-up.
Posted in Information and communication technologies (ICT), Netherlands, Security, until 2015 | Comments Off
Friday, November 23rd, 2012
In January 2012, the Copenhagen Research Forum (CRF) gathered 80 European scientists to discuss the societal chal-lenges to be addressed by Horizon 2020, the next framework programme for European research and innovation, and consider how research could contribute the best solutions. This EFP brief explains the process behind the CRF and gives a summary of recommendations. It ends with a discussion on cross-disciplinarity and strategic partnerships as tools for organising research in order to solve complex societal challenges.
Download: EFP Brief No. 228_Visions for Horizon 2020.
Posted in Energy, Environment (including climate change), EU, Food, agriculture and fisheries, biotechnology, Health, Information and communication technologies (ICT), Security, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Transport (including aeronautics), until 2020 | Comments Off
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012
New technologies can improve our quality of life greatly, but they may also have a “dark side”. The objectives of FESTOS were to identify and assess evolving security threats posed by the potential abuse of emerging technologies and new scientific knowledge, on the one hand, and propose means to reduce the likelihood of such threats, on the other. Looking ahead to the year 2030, this foresight study scanned the horizon of different fields of technology. Possible means of prevention and policy measures were studied in the context of trade-offs between security needs and the freedom of research and knowledge.
Download: EFP-Brief-No.-225-FESTOS
Posted in brief, EU, Food, agriculture and fisheries, biotechnology, Nanosciences, nanotechnology, materials, new production technologies, Security, until 2035 | Comments Off
Friday, May 25th, 2012
FOCUS helps shape European security research to enable the EU to effectively respond to tomorrow’s challenges stemming from the globalisation of risks, threats and vulnerabilities. FOCUS concentrates on alternative future EU roles to prevent or respond to incidents situated on the ‘borderline’ between the internal and external dimensions of the security affecting the Union and its citizens. It does so by elaborating multiple scenarios, based on IT-supported foresight, in the form of alternative futures. These are plausibility-probed versus mere threat scenarios.
EFP Brief No. 214_Foresight Security Scenarios
Tags: IT-supported foresight, scenario building
Posted in brief, EU, FP7 Themes, Geography, Security, Time Horizon, until 2035 | Comments Off
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
SANDERA (The Future Impact of Security and Defence Policies on the European Research Area) explored the future relationship between two critical policy domains: namely, the EU strategy to move towards the European Research Area (ERA) and those EU policies focused on the security of the European citizen in the world. More particularly, SANDERA investigated the possible future relationship between the ERA and defence research and innovation policy.
EFP Brief No. 199_SANDERA
Tags: defence policy, European Research Area (ERA)
Posted in brief, EU, FP7 Themes, Geography, Security, Time Horizon, until 2030 | Comments Off
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
The objective of ForeSec is to tie together the multiple threads of existing work on the future of European security in an attempt to provide a more coherent guidance, orientation and structure to all future security-related research activities. It aims at enhancing the common understanding of the complex global and societal nature of European security in order to pre-empt novel threats and capture technological opportunities. The project takes a participatory approach in an attempt to facilitate the emergence of a coherent and ho-listic approach to current and future threats and challenges to European security. ForeSec builds a pan-European network around the European security foresight processes and helps foster a societal debate on European security and security research. As this brief is published, ForeSec still has a few months of project work lying ahead. Accordingly, all results presented here are merely intermediate.
EFMN Brief no. 159_ForeSec
Tags: aging population, climate, defense, demography, enlargement (EU), globalisation, migration, services, terrorism, water
Posted in brief, Environment (including climate change), EU, Food, agriculture and fisheries, biotechnology, FP7 Themes, Geography, Security, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Time Horizon, until 2025 | Comments Off
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
The main objective of the project was to establish a future vision (2020) and define the best means for the production, commercialization and innovation of products on the basis of medicinal plants of the Andean region of South America that would contribute to its social and economic development.
EFMN Brief No. 155_Andean Medicinal Plants
Tags: financial services, human resources, medicine, natural resources, roadmap, services, SWOT, tourism, UNIDO, water
Posted in brief, Food, agriculture and fisheries, biotechnology, FP7 Themes, Geography, Health, Information and communication technologies (ICT), Latin America, Nanosciences, nanotechnology, materials, new production technologies, National, Security, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Time Horizon, until 2020 | Comments Off
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
CEFFOR was created to promote the sustainable development (in terms of all three pillars: economic, social and environmental) of the
furniture industry in countries with high costs of production. CEFFOR is to accomplish this task by means of contributing strategic
information to the social agents and companies who participate in determining enterprise strategies and industry policies.
EFMN Brief No. 151_Furniture Foresight Centre
Tags: arts, building (housing), consumption, demography, environmental sustainability, furniture, housing, manufacturing, migration, software, sustainability
Posted in brief, Environment (including climate change), FP7 Themes, Geography, Nanosciences, nanotechnology, materials, new production technologies, National, Security, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Spain, Time Horizon, until 2015 | Comments Off
Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
This brief intends to provide an overview of the rationale underlying the EU-Africa Energy Partnership, in addition to an analysis of the potential implications of this policy on the development of sub-Saharan African nations. It is posited that the partnership could have potentially negative repercussions if critical uncertainties are not sufficiently taken into account, and that it is in the EU’s best interest to ensure that outcomes are genuinely equitable. The research also has implications for other developing nations around the world seeking to further their economies and raise living standards by means of engaging in the global biofuels industry.
EFMN Brief No. 149_EU-Africa Energy Partnership
Tags: biofuel, climate, environmental sustainability, farming, gas, hydrogen, natural resources, OPEC, roadmap, social change, sustainability, tourism, vehicle, water
Posted in brief, Energy, Environment (including climate change), EU, Food, agriculture and fisheries, biotechnology, FP7 Themes, Geography, Global, Nanosciences, nanotechnology, materials, new production technologies, Security, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Time Horizon, Transport (including aeronautics), until 2015 | Comments Off
