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Posted on: 28/05/2025
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How will the city of tomorrow grow? How is food production changing in the future? In their new brochure โ100+ Trends Cultivating Urban Agricultureโ, Dr. Anna Kirstgen and Dr. Bjรถrn Moller from Fraunhofer ISI Foresight Department provide answers within the framework of the FOODCITYBOOST project โ and show just how diverse and dynamic urban agriculture is becoming.
๐ Included in the brochure:
โข A trend radar featuring over 100 key developments, offering a structured overview and strategic orientation on emerging trends and future perspectives
โข 15 deep dives exploring key topics such as social innovations, new technologies, regulations, new business models, and ecological challenges like food waste
A compact overview for anyone involved in urban development, agricultural innovation, or sustainable food systems.
Posted on: 03/05/2025
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FOODCITYBOOST is a trailblazing project that will help develop the foundations for turning urban jungles into lush, green, food-producing hubs! We imagine cities where rooftops, balconies, and even vertical spaces are bursting with greenery and fresh produce. This is the future that FOODCITYBOOST is planting seeds for, whilst tackling the major contemporary difficulties such as: climate change, biodiversity loss, and the great divide between urban, peri-urban, and rural areas.
Posted on: 03/05/2025
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Posted on: 17/04/2025
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Delivering solutions for a more sustainable future
ISINNOVA provides research services and strategic consultancy to public and private actors pursuing sustainable visions, solutions, and policies.
Five Pillars of Our Approach
1. Anticipate โ Apply systems thinking and foresight methodologies to identify emerging challenges, reveal interdependencies, and inform proactive, future-resilient strategies.
2. Integrate โ Connect disciplines, sectors, and knowledge systems to foster richer analysis and tackle complex challenges holistically.
3. Align โ Ensure research, innovation, and governance processes reflect the values, priorities, and needs of society through ethical, participatory, and responsible approaches.
4. Co-create โ Engage diverse stakeholders โ researchers, policymakers, citizens, and industry โ in collaborative processes to design solutions that are inclusive, relevant, and impactful.
5. Transform โ Drive systemic change by translating shared knowledge and co-created solutions into sustainable, scalable actions, supported by continuous assessment to ensure applicability, effectiveness, and long-term value.
Track Record
Posted on: 03/04/2025
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The stages of the implemented process were as follows:
1. Shared understanding of the current situation in the mountain areas
The discussions within the working groups started from a set of summarized information from the extensive analyses previously conducted, structured by strengths and weaknesses, along with additional synthetic data on the tourism, agriculture, forestry, and wood industry sectors.
2. Selection of the drivers of change
The working groups explored and enriched a list of factors/trends that influence the contextual change toward the 2035 horizon, across various dimensions: social, technological, economic, ecological, geopolitical, and values-based factors.
3. Scenario projection for 2035
Based on thematically grouped change drivers, the working groups envisioned and described the state of mountain areas in 2035 under the influence of these drivers, in the absence of strategic corrective interventions.
4. Identification of aspirations โ key values, opportunities, best practices
The groups proposed and debated a series of values and aspirations for the future of mountain areas by 2035, including inspiration from best practices in other countries.
5. Consolidation of aspirations into clear directions for transforming mountain areas
This stage involved grouping aspirations by thematic areas, more clearly articulating the transformation vector, and partially exploring concrete actions that would enable these transformations. The sum of these transformation directions forms the **Vision for mountain areas by 2035**.
6. Roadmapping - includes the set of actions that support progress toward the desirable transformation of the mountain areas, across multiple levels.
7. Priority directions
Participants in the workshops identified the actions perceived as the most impactful and/or urgent in transforming mountain areas.
Posted on: 01/04/2025
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We help people and organisations imagine, work with, and shape their future.
CIFS is one of the worlds oldest think tanks exclusively focusing on foresight. CIFS teach very popular courses in foresight, gives key notes and launch various initiatives and do research projects. CIFS is a self-owned think tank, completely independent of special interests.
Posted on: 31/03/2025
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Supports the economic growth in South-East Europe by promoting innovative solutions and facilitating the transfer of technologies and know-how.
The first organization in the South- East region to implement foresight methods to shape public policy.
Posted on: 19/03/2025
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The EU introduced missions as a new instrument in Horizon Europe. Mission Boards were appointed to elaborate visions for the future in five Areas: Adaptation to Climate Change, Including Societal Transformation; Cancer; Healthy Oceans, Seas, and Coastal and Inland Waters; Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities; Soil Health and Food. Starting in autumn 2019, five Foresight on Demand projects supported them with foresight expertise and methodology.
This report provides the work in support of the Mission Board on Soil Health and Food. Adopting a long-term perspective, the project first contributed to better understand the drivers, trends and weak signals with the most significant potential to influence the future of soil health and food. With the Mission Board, three scenarios for 2040 were sketched. In the final step, system-thinking knowledge was applied to identify concepts, solutions, and practices able to promote systematic change in the sector.
Posted on: 28/01/2025
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The EU introduced missions as a new instrument in Horizon Europe. Mission Boards were appointed to elaborate visions for the future in five Areas: Adaptation to Climate Change, Including Societal Transformation; Cancer; Healthy Oceans, Seas, and Coastal and Inland Waters; Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities; Soil Health and Food. Starting in autumn 2019, five Foresight on Demand projects supported them with foresight expertise and methodology. This report provides the work in support of the Mission Board on Soil Health and Food. Adopting a long-term perspective, the project first contributed to better understand the drivers, trends and weak signals with the most significant potential to influence the future of soil health and food. With the Mission Board, three scenarios for 2040 were sketched. In the final step, system-thinking knowledge was applied to identify concepts, solutions, and practices able to promote systematic change in the sector.
Posted on: 28/01/2025
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Posted on: 13/01/2025
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4CF The Futures Literacy Company is a consultancy entirely focused on strategic foresight and long-term strategies. For nearly two decades, 4CF has been on the mission to help its clients prepare for an uncertain tomorrow. The Company has executed hundreds of projects for private companies, public institutions and international entities, including the European Commission and its agencies (EUDA, ENISA), FAO, UNFCCC, UNESCO, UNEP and UNDP. 4CF is at the forefront of global innovation, and actively contributes to the development of cutting-edge foresight tools, including 4CF HalnyX (Delphi platform), 4CF Sprawlr, 4CF FLEx.
Posted on: 17/12/2024
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The vision of FOSTER is to build a foundation from which a new Knowledge and Innovation System (KIS) for Europeโs food system can emerge. The current structure is insufficient to address the emerging challenges of nourishing people in a healthy and sustainable way. Key objective is to gain insights into how it can be built to be more inclusive and better governed.
FOSTER shall help to transform Europeโs food system outcomes and will achieve this by:
To inspire adoption of FOSTER learnings, over 20 workshops and a final conference will be conducted; scientific position papers and policy briefs will be widely communicated.
Posted on: 09/12/2024
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Arctik is a Brussels-based communications agency recognised for its strategic and creative communication capacity in the field of sustainability. Arctik develops tailored public relations and communication strategies that take both objectives and resulting impact into account. We facilitate the creation of communities and networks that contribute towards circulating content, whilst cultivating meaningful dialogues and synergies between influencers and decision-makers.
Arctik has substantial experience in designing and implementing communication campaigns and projects which mix creative communication and sustainability. We believe in communication campaigns which provide a setting where opportunities are created, and knowledge is shared between actors. It is an occasion to convey a message and collect insights and intelligence.
Our team has a strong commitment to sustainability. We incorporate sustainable values into operations Arctik has substantial experience in designing and implementing communication campaigns and projects which mix creative communication and sustainability. We believe in communication campaigns which provide a setting where opportunities are created, and knowledge is shared between actors. It is an occasion to convey a message and collect insights and intelligence. and consider environmental and social factors in every business decision, while encouraging our partners and clients to think circular! Arctik is also registered to obtain the Brussels โEnterprise ecodynamiqueโ label.
Arctik, as part of Technopolis Group is present in more than 10 countries with 300 consultants originating from +45 countries and speaking +30 languages. This diversity offers a unique perspective on what local-level stakeholders are receptive to.
Our offices are located in : โข Austria โข Belgium โข Colombia โข France โข Germany โข Ivory Coast โข Netherlands โข Greece โข Portugal โข Sweden โข Ivory Cost โข Colombia โข United Kingdom.
Our solutions: Strategy โข Messaging and copywriting โข Online and offline engagement โข Thought-provoking design โข Web services โข Project Management โข Video and animation โข Data-driven communication โข Events โข Social media campaigns & monitoring โข Knowledge management and Capitalisation โข Media and visibility.
Our expertise: Regional Policy, Circular Economy, Climate Services, Education, Entrepreneurship, Science & Innovation.
Arctik is part of Technopolisย |group|
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Posted on: 27/11/2024
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Considering prevalent trends, such as population growth, increasing demand for animal protein, land use change, and resource scarcity, a blueprint for future crops may help prioritise sustainable and efficient agriculture practices, as well as improved food systems. CropBooster-P, funded under the Horizon 2020 Programme, is a project that aimed to find a solution to this question by looking into innovative crop-breeding technologies for improving climate adaptability, resource use efficiency, yield, and quality.
Posted on: 12/05/2023
Last Edited: 6 months ago
Results for the working group Food are available at: http://foresight.cnr.it/working-groups/wg-food.html
Posted on: 25/11/2024
Last Edited: 7 months ago
SF4S is a collaborative action with partners from Higher Education institutions (HEIs), Vocational Education and Training (VET) providers, innovation networks and business entities from the Agri-food, Health and the Mobility sectors.
Carried out between July 2022 - June 2025, SF4S supports our transition to a more sustainable European economy by helping to address the lack of green, digital and future (i.e. sustainability foresight) skills among students and professionals and by connecting knowledge flows between HEI, VET and industry actors that are necessary for Europe to develop cooperative solutions on a large-scale and support the recommendations for action in the major reports and initiatives: Green Deal, NextGenerationEU, European Skills Agenda and OECD Future of Education and Skills 2030.
Posted on: 30/10/2024
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Posted on: 14/10/2024
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Institutul de Prospectiva is a research organisation (NGO) with the mission to stimulate future-awareness aimed at addressing the challenges of contemporary societies. To this end, we implement tailored foresight exercises supporting strategic orientation in the public sector, with a focus on foresight for R&I policy at European and national level.
Prospectiva is part of the Foresight-on-Demand (FOD) consortium, tasked with advising the European Commission and fourteen other EU organisations on science and technology policy programming for a period of four years (April 2024 โ March 2028).
This is an extension of the previous successful cooperation within the Foresight on Demand framework contract (2019-2023); during this period Prospectiva has contributed to numerous projects, on components related to horizon scanning, large scale Delphi consultations, scenario building, co-creation workshops, speculative design, and the elaboration of various briefs, in-depth case studies and reports. These projects addressed a range of themes, among which the future of food, of retail, of ecosystemsโ flourishing, and even of the human condition.
Posted on: 14/10/2024