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Competence Centre on Foresight

Collection of Foresight Engagement Tools

Foresight engagement tools are designed for arranging participative workshops to support decision making, explore systemic topics and encourage long-term thinking.

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Strategic Foresight
The Megatrends Hub
Megatrends Tool

Megatrends are long-term driving forces that are observable now and will most likely have significant influence on the future.

Polycrisis Exploration Workshop
Risk cards

Workshop tool to facilitate strategic conversations about current and future risks, disasters, and polycrisis.

Futures Wheel workshop
Futures Wheel

The Futures Wheel is a participatory method to explore possible future direct implications and knock-on effects of a chosen change factor. 

Digital Transition Toolkit
Digital Transition Tool

Toolkit for strategic conversations on digital transition for farmers and rural communities.

Reference Foresight Scenarios
Reference Scenarios Tool

Four scenarios for the global standing of the EU in 2040 offer strategic reflections which can serve as a compass for decision-makers navigating under increasingly unpredictable circumstances.

The Scenario Exploration System (SES)
SES serious game

Teaching and simulation tool to experience your possible paths towards the future, in relation to a certain topic.

Migration Discussion Toolkit
Immigration Tool

Seven discussion formats for a forward-looking debate on migration and integration.

 

Complex  System Analyser
System mapping tool

Workshop tool designed to engage with industry sectors, develop shared long-term visions and identify challenges and opportunities. and public good.

FuturGov Game
Governments

The game uses people’s anticipatory assumptions about what the future may look like to generate conversations, negotiations and collaborations through a participatory setting.

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Future-oriented Policymaking
The project aims to support foresight capacity building in EU Member States and to integrate long-term thinking into decision-making
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