With the availability of new technological means, foresight has experienced a resurge in popularity in recent years. The majority of Western countries have used foresight in one way or another to positively affect the medium to long-term future.
We see foresight - due to its participatory nature - both as a networking tool and as a policy-making tool that, if well-designed, allows to collectively gather insightful intelligence on future developments. This in turn allows to make better-informed decisions today.
We apply foresight methods predominantly in research cooperation projects as well as in topics of high societal relevance, such as Climate Change, Energy, or Bioeconomy. To enable policy actions today, based on insights of the future, an adequate foresight process involving major stakeholder groups is necessary, e.g. policy-makers, scientists, industry, or civil society, as they help to identifythe barriers to and catalysts of a desirable future. Recommendations help decision-makers to ascertain the challenges and their possible solutions.
Some of ZSI's foresight endeavours focus(ed) on
- providing a Foresight-on-Demand mechanism to the European Commission,
- improving future RTDI governance and priority-setting,
- regional cooperation with Southeast Asia on sustainable development,
- future EU-India S&T collaboration,
- ICT RTDI policy reform in South East Europe, or
- sustainable science collaboration programme between the EU and Russia.
References / Contracting authorities:
European Commission (Forward Visions on the European Research Area, ERA-Net New Indigo, Linking Russia to the ERA, TEL-Map)
European Regional Development Fund (Regional ICT Foresight exercise for Southeast European countries)
Contact person: DI Dietmar Lampert
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Cooperation Partners
Projects
- Mission Service Facility
- Deutsche Beteiligung am EU-Rahmenprogramm und aktuelle Trends der europäischen F&I-Förderung
- Policy and governance of urban energy prosumption models – examining and co-visioning a social transformation process
- The Future of Social Confrontations
- Austrian Research and Technology Reports 2023-2026
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Publications
- Futures of Social Confrontations and Effects on European Democracies 2040
- Foresight on demand brief in support of the Horizon Europe mission board: Adaptation to climate change, including societal transformation
- Strategic Foresight in the Western Balkans: Recovery on the Horizon
- Exploring the performance gap in EU Framework Programmes between EU13 and EU15 Member States
- Using the Delphi Method in Evaluations – Incorporating a Future Oriented Perspective in Evaluations
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Events
- future lines - Rückblicke in die Zukunft
- POLICY ANSWERS Workshop on Anticipatory Science Advice in the Western Balkans
- Conference: Evaluation of Public Policy Responses to 'black swans'
- STRATEGIC FORESIGHT: A VISION FOR THE FUTURE OF EUROPE
- BILAT USA 4.0 Citizen Science Workshop 2018
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