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Evolution of Governance

Evolution of Governance

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The pace at which technologies and economic structures have changed in recent decades challenges political systems around the globe. Democracies often struggle to adapt to changes in the environment they seek to govern. Yet, as Winston Churchill famously said: “Democracy is the worst form of government – except for all the others that have been tried.” This theme encourages us to discuss forms of participation, innovative democratic methods, the foundations of democracy, and the necessities of international cooperation.

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Actualization of Czech republic 2030 strategy

The aim of this study was to serve as one of the inputs to the update and to initiate a discussion on the possibilities of updating the Czech republic 2030 strategy. In order to ensure that this strategic document reflects the dynamic developments on the global and domestic scene, mechanisms for regular reviews and updates of the objectives and measures have been proposed. Given the events of the last 3 years (especially the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine), it is relevant to review the relevance of the assumptions regarding the long-term development of the Czech Republic, which served as the basis for the original wording of the strategic objectives and targeting of the document. The role of České priority was to provide foresight exercises in order to reach two goals: Assess the relevance of existing goals: the problems and challenges facing society are changing and so are the definition of objectives for further development. The task of this section is therefore also to determine whether the original ČR 2030 goals are still relevant in the context of change and respond to the major challenges that society is facing and will continue to face in the coming decades. Identify blind spots: there may be issues or opportunities that the document does not cover - i.e. blind spots. The next task of this part of the update is to identify such gaps to increase the comprehensiveness of the document. The project was implemented in the form of workshops, which were attended by experts and representatives of public institutions and ministries. On the basis of pre-prepared scenarios of development, the participants had to identify the resulting challenges, opportunities and areas that have not yet been covered in the CR 2030. The list of these areas was subsequently consulted with representatives of public institutions. These expert consultations were complemented by input from the general public through a creative competition held in September 2022.
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EUARENAS

Democracy across Europe has experienced immense challenge, change and uncertainty in recent years (Canal 2014; European Commission & Merkel; 2019) - from the rise of populism to decreasing levels of public trust in governance institutions and processes, to the war in Ukraine. Set against the backdrop of these issues, EUARENAS has been investigating how cities and urban spaces can strengthen legitimacy, identification and engagement within the democratic public sphere. Specifically, EUARENAS has been exploring how participation and deliberation in democracy and decision-making can be increased, and how voices and communities who are excluded from such arenas can be more actively involved. Foresight is one of the research strands present in EUARENAS. In this project, foresight is both a tool for understanding democratic innovations as they emerge, and for engaging citizens and other actors in such innovations within the participatory and deliberative realms. Mixed method approaches to foresight that incorporate a diversity of activities such as media discourse analysis, lived experience storytelling, social media analysis, three horizons mapping, driver-mapping, scenario and visioning exercises and policy stress- testing have been used in EUARENAS to investigate and hypothesise over future trends and scenarios in participatory democracies. From this work, we propose the following recommendations for Cities wanting to strive towards more equitable local democracies:Address structural barriers to participation Build relationships of trustInvest in formal and civic educationMake decisions for the long-termA more equitable, inclusive local democracy landscape is not too far in the distance for us to conceive it being possible. In fact, the future is now – the seeds to create it are already being planted, they just need nurturing by:Scaling and mainstreaming existing pilot or niche practices that are working locally – whether that beparticipatory budgeting, citizen assemblies or other smaller-scale projects – so that these become thenew ‘status quo’Adopting test and learn approaches to promote experimentation and on-going learning – this will enableongoing innovation and be responsive to society's needsFinding ways to celebrate and connect-up the small changes that are taking place - this will help peoplesee that progress is being made, even when it feels like things are changing too slow
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The Millennium Project

The Millennium Project is a global participatory think tank established in 1996 under the American Council for the United Nations University that became independent in 2009 and has grown to 73 Nodes around the world (an MP Node is a group of institutions and individuals that connect local and global perspectives). Purpose: Improve humanity’s prospects for building a better future. Mission: Improve thinking about the future and make that thinking available through a variety of media for feedback to accumulate wisdom about the future for better decisions today. Vision: A global foresight network of Nodes, information, and software, building a global collective intelligence system recognized for its ability to improve prospects for humanity. A think tank on behalf of humanity, not on behalf of a government, or an issue, or an ideology, but on behalf of building a better future for all of us.
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Trigger

The ultimate objectives are to provide EU institutions with knowledge and tools to enhance their actorness, effectiveness and influence in global governance. TRIGGER specific objectives are: Advance the state of the art in understanding global governance; Evolution of the EU’s interaction with global governance, in particular so-called “actorness” and “effectiveness” of the EU; Understand how global governance and emerging technologies interact, and what role the EU plays in this respect, in particular as “regulatory superpower”; Identify emerging trends that strengthen / loosen deeper global governance and cooperation; Build capacity for strategic foresight and public engagement inside EU institutions.
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Deep Dive: Geopolitical Reconfiguration: The EU in a volatile new World: the challenge of global leadership

This deep dive is part of the Foresight towards the 2nd Strategic Plan of Horizon Europe project. An increasingly volatile global geopolitical context is emerging with growing threats not only to global security and governance but also to the EU and neighbourhood countries. These conflicts, which can escalate and spread quickly across national borders, highlight the fact that the EU is becoming increasingly vulnerable due to its dependence on a volatile transatlantic relationship. No global institution or authority guarantees stable relationships as the United Nations is often in the position of a toothless tiger. Instead, there is a vacuum in global governance. About this topic The EU’s dependence on the transatlantic partnership and NATO is both a source of strength and weakness; the recent legislation period has shown an un-cooperative US President, an ambivalent US-China relationship, and the US in a position to dictate terms to the EU. All this takes place in an environment of major geopolitical upheaval and reconfigurations, with the rise of new regional powers, and the emergence of new actors, creating uncertainty about future coalitions. Growing political instability in the EU’s neighbourhood was made worse by the pandemic, and its economic and social effects represent another challenge to the EU’s global standing and security.
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Futures of Science for Policy in Europe

The project explores futures of science for policy; practices and processes by which information is exchanged between knowledge actors and policymakers with the intention to produce scientifically-informed policy in Europe. We are making a deep dive into developments which are currently underway and will take us to different possible 2030s, according to events largely unpredictable and decisions bound by a number of constraints of diverse nature. The project is one of eight foresight deep dives of the project 'European R&I foresight and public engagement for Horizon Europe' carried out by the Foresight on Demand consortium.
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#OurFutures

#OurFutures is a collection of stories, by citizens of Europe, indicating their desirable futures. Share your storyWe love to hear what you think. You can write more than one short story if you feel strongly about more than one issue. Available in all EU languages. You want to share your story as well? Go to bit.ly/our_futures   WhyThe aim of this collection is to support the discussion around visions for Europe, what do you want the future of Europe to look like? Which stories can we imagine together. All current stories can be found at futures4europe.eu/stories. And do you want to understand what these stories tell us, check out the open database behind the stories. The hopes and worries will be shared with (EU) policy makers, to help (re)direct their ideas and policy actions. The #OurFutures project is set up by the European Commission (Policy Lab: foresight, design & behavioral insights of the Joint Research Centre).ResultsCheck out our dashboard to learn about https://ourfutures.dashboard.voicesthatcount.net/  More in-depth analysishttps://policy-lab.ec.europa.eu/news/future-europe-what-do-you-imagine-it-will-look-2023-05-09_enhttps://policy-lab.ec.europa.eu/news/future-europe-futures-imagined-greek-citizens-2023-05-15_en
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The Responsible Research and Innovation Living Lab and The Prospects of Institutionalizing the Values of Openness and Mutual Responsiveness in Science and Democracy:

The establishment of responsible innovation requires four key institutional changes. First, innovation must be value-driven. Second, an ethics of co-responsibility among stakeholders must be implemented. Third, innovation should be made directional and manageable. Fourth, market failures need to be addressed to facilitate necessary transformative changes, especially with regard to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This research project will take into account the evolution of Living Labs and various specialized Living Labs (e.g., urban labs, social labs, and responsible Living Labs) to assess to what extent they address these institutional requirements. On this basis, the concept of a new dedicated Living Lab: a Responsible Research and Innovation Lab for Engineering Practices will be introduced. Subsequently this dedicated Living Lab will be operationalised on a theme from the engineering sciences. We will consider innovations stemming from digital tech for Health issues, additive manufacturing or other engineering pratices. We will deploy participatory foresight, to enable a form of anticipatory governance of emerging new innovations.This dedicated ling lab is contextualised in a broader context of a deliberative democracy: Living Labs can be seen as spaces for Organisational Learning and Collective Experimentation:Living Labs: ‘real-life test and experimentation environments that foster co-creation and open innovation among the main actors of the Quadruple Helix Model, namely: Citizens, Governmental Organisations, Industrial organisations and Academia’ (ENoLL 2024)It operationalises an important feature of Responsible Research and Innovation: Making stakeholders co-responsible and mutually responsive to each other by engaging them in an open co-creation/ co-enquiry process. (among other on the basis of participatory foresight of emerging technologies and innovations)The idea of 'openess' and 'mutual reponsiveness' as values of actors and institutions will also be subject of analysis.Science and innovation can be better fostered in an open, democratic society than in other types of societies. The norm of civic participation in a ‘democracy’ is a lived ideal for citizens, just as the norm of ‘communalism’ is a lived ideal for the scientific community. Both norms presuppose the values of ‘openness’ and 'mutual responsiveness' among scientist and citizens.This highlights ‘openness’ not as a prescriptive norm but as a value of the institution of science. Simultaneously, ‘openness’ is also an institutional value of a democracy. However, science and democracy are dependent on the extent to which scientist and citizens engage on the basis of these norms. How can we best encourage and incentivise those? Project duration: 1-1-2023 till 1-4-2027 Project partners: RWTH Aachen University with team members Prof. dr. Stefan Boschen, Julia Backhaus and Dr. Dr.phil Rene von Schomberg
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Reference Foresight Scenarios: Scenarios on the global standing of the EU in 2040

3The Reference Foresight Scenarios report from the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) summarizes the results of a foresight process that started at the end of 2020 with the goal to develop a set of reference foresight scenarios to support policymakers. Foresight scenarios are a tool to improve strategy development and decision making in a context of turbulence, uncertainty, novelty, and ambiguity. Recent events, such as the COVID pandemic or the Russian invasion of Ukraine, made clear that being prepared for the unknown and unexpected becomes increasingly important. The reference scenarios presented in this report aim to help decision makers to increase the preparedness of their organisations under increasingly unpredictable circumstances. The scenarios are four plausible versions of how the world may look like in 2040 and what this would mean for Europe’s global standing. They are called Storms, End game, Struggling synergies, and Opposing views. They do not claim to predict or project how the future may look like but offer strategic reflections, which can serve as a compass for policymakers for navigating through unchartered territories of turbulence, uncertainty, ambiguity and novelty. These four geopolitical scenarios are called ‘Reference’ Foresight Scenarios because they represent a forward-looking framework that provides a reference for use in policymakers’ debates about potential futures.The study was conducted between 2020-2023 by European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC). Read the report Read the blog and learn more about the process and how these scenarios can be used in future oriented policy making. Stress-testing policy options with the scenarios The work with the reference foresight scenarios continued as a pilot process of stress-testing some policy options against a set of Reference foresight scenarios. The process was led by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and applied to a specific EU policy proposal on Standard Essential Patents. The process ran during the initial stage of the impact assessment process, but it was not an official part of it. The results of this pilot helped to understand which policy options are more or less robust and how they can be made more future-proof. The process also provided rich insights into what the challenges and opportunities of this approach are, and into how stress-testing can be further incorporated into EU policymaking. The report provides an example and serve as a guide for any future process of stress-testing policy options against foresight scenarios. Read the report: Stress-testing of policy options using foresight scenarios: a pilot case
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i-Portunus Houses – Kick-Start a Local Mobility Host Network for Artists & Cultural Professionals in AllCreative Europe Countries

The i-Portunus Houses project, implemented on behalf of the European Commission by a consortium of three partners – the European Cultural Foundation (coordinator), MitOst, and Kultura Nova Foundation – was dedicated to testing and analysing diverse transnational mobility schemes for the cultural sector. Apart from granting support for local hosts from all Creative Europe countries for the mobility of artists and cultural professionals, the project also included research on mobility in culture and the design of policy recommendations.  In the research, the mobility of artists and cultural professionals is understood as the temporary, cross-border travel of artists and cultural professionals with the purpose of creating, connecting, exploring and learning. The research was carried out by experts from different disciplines with Dea Vidović being the research leader. As a result of the aforementioned research, in 2022 Kultura Nova Foundation published a 4-volume publication. Each volume represents one of the research sections: (1) conceptual framework of mobility in culture; (2) the study on mobility in culture from the perspectives of artists, cultural professionals, hosts and funders; (3) an evaluation of i-Portunus Houses mobility grant scheme and (4) scenario for the future of mobility in culture.  The research covers a wide range of topics related to mobility in culture, such as its participatory and networking dimension, its digital dimension and virtual mobility, as well as its green dimension. The culmination of the research, alongside extensive recommendations and action points for sustainable mobility, is Scenario for the Future which introduces a new concept of "slow mobility".

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life in 2040 I am hoping for better changes and improvement in our government because our government is slowly ruining our country with corruption in the departments, there must be improvements, especially in health living, public clinics are providing poor service also the health workers behavior is the worst they need to treat patient well with respect and stop undermining the poor because they also need to be treated with care. Social justice must be well-implemented, be improved more especially on crime, the crime rate is very high in South Africa and we no longer feel safe walking around whether in daylight or at night, something should be done about the youth that turn into criminals instead of studying or doing something legit to make a living. car hijacking, money heists, fraud, corruption, and gadget robbery are the most dominating crimes that need a permanent change. I would describe the future as a life of improvement especially in education (fees and safe space that has no discrimination, racism, and equality). In governance, I am looking at a future that has improved facilities and leadership skills. better working environments, and job creation that will minimize crime, there shouldn't be a thing of hiring people because they are friends, relatives, or some sort of connection. everyone should be given a chance to work and use their qualifications without age restriction.

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An integral Europe that revitalises its spiritual roots (Ein integrales Europa, das seine spirituellen Wurzeln wiederbelebt)
An integral Europe that revitalises its spiritual roots (Ein integrales Europa, das seine spirituellen Wurzeln wiederbelebt)
An integral Europe that revitalises its spiritual roots (Ein integrales Europa, das seine spirituellen Wurzeln wiederbelebt)

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Following a longer dialogue in the sense of a dialogical aesthetic in the Antrhopociene (the working title of my artistic research) with ChatGPT, the following vision emerged: In 2040, Europe has undergone a profound transformation and has become a model of regeneration, spirituality, peace and an integral world vision integrating European and non-European indigenous wisdoms. This vision shows how civil society processes and the public interest economy are involved in this transformation process: 1. Participatory communities: European cities and regions have developed a culture of active participation and participation. Citizens shape local decisions and projects, leading to vibrant and committed communities. 2. Public service enterprises: Europe has experienced a blooming period of companies in the public interest. In addition to profit-making, these companies actively promote social and environmental responsibility and promote fair working conditions. 3. Education for sustainability: The education system in Europe emphasises the importance of sustainability, ethics and social engagement. Schools and universities encourage students to work for environmental protection, peace and the common good. 4. Ecological neighbourhoods: European cities have become ecological neighbourhoods where sustainable construction and renewable energy are promoted. People live in green communities and share resources. 5. Cultural diversity and integration: Europe has experienced a cultural renaissance characterised by the integration of diverse cultural influences. Artists and creators from different backgrounds enrich the cultural landscape. 6. Intergenerational dialogue: Society promotes intergenerational dialogue and respects the knowledge and experience of older people. Communities are characterised by a sense of attachment between the young and the old. 7. Health and prevention: Europe has focused on preventive medicine and holistic healthcare. People pay attention to their physical and mental health and use natural curative methods. 8. Global cooperation: Europe is actively working with countries and regions around the world to address global challenges. Together, they are committed to peace, environmental protection and social justice. 9. Regenerative agriculture: European agriculture has embraced regenerative practices that restore soils and promote biodiversity. Farmers use organic farming methods. 10. Indigenous wisdoms and common good: Europe has integrated indigenous wisdoms from different cultures and uses them as a source of inspiration for community projects, environmental protection and social justice. These wisdoms emphasise the importance of the balance in nature and the common good. Civil society processes and the public interest economy have played a crucial role in shaping and promoting this holistic vision for Europe in 2040. They have shaped a society based on values such as cooperation, sustainability, social justice and respect for nature. Europe lives in line with the spiritual dimensions of life and honours the diversity of indigenous wisdoms that contribute to regeneration, peace and harmony.

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I would like to see a future where all people will feel happy and financially secure. There will be no criminality, no wars, no violence.

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The New World - A sisterhood
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In 2040, I envision a world where gender equality has become an unquestionable reality and women's increased participation in leadership positions has fundamentally reshaped society. This includes: 1) Equal Representation in Leadership: By 2040, gender parity in leadership roles is the norm, not the exception. Hopefully, women will hold an equitable share of positions in politics, business, academia, and other sectors. I hope that Boards of directors, government cabinets, and executive teams will reflect the diversity of the population, with a balance of women and men at the decision-making table. 2) Legislation and Policies: In this future, I hope that comprehensive legislation and policies have been put in place to ensure gender equality. Laws against gender discrimination and pay gaps to be strictly enforced, fostering an environment where women have the same opportunities for career advancement as men. Parental leave policies to become more equitable, encouraging men to take an active role in caregiving. 3) Education and Empowerment: I wish that educational institutions will better prioritize gender-sensitive curricula, promoting equality from an early age. Girls and young women to be encouraged to pursue any field of study or career they desire without fear of gender bias. I also envision mentorship programs abound, helping women break through glass ceilings and reach their full potential. 4) Media and Representation: The significant evolution of media and advertising. The dismantling of gender stereotypes, and women's portrayal in multifaceted, empowering roles in all forms of media. The representation of women in STEM fields, politics, and leadership roles in movies and TV shows in a way that inspires young girls to aim higher. 5) Work-Life Balance: The prioritization of a healthy work-life balance. Companies to offer flexible work arrangements, remote options, and on-site childcare facilities, enabling women to excel in their careers while maintaining fulfilling personal lives and not be judged for their decisions. 6) Intersectionality: The fight for gender equality to become more intersectional, addressing the unique challenges faced by women of colour, LGBTQ+ individuals, and those with disabilities. In this future, I wish for inclusivity and diversity to be celebrated 7) Global Solidarity: Nations collaborate on a global scale to promote gender equality. International organizations and governments work together to eradicate gender-based violence, provide access to education for all girls, and ensure women's rights are upheld everywhere. 8) Stereotype-Free Future: Traditional gender roles and stereotypes have faded into history. Boys and girls are encouraged to explore their interests and talents without limitations based on preconceived notions of what is "appropriate" for their gender. 9) Economic Prosperity: Gender equality isn't just a matter of justice; it's also an economic boon. In this future, countries that have prioritized women's participation in the workforce are reaping the benefits of a larger talent pool and increased innovation, leading to overall economic prosperity. 10) Empathy and Inclusivity: Society is marked by a greater sense of empathy, inclusivity, and collaboration. This future embraces the understanding that gender equality benefits everyone, leading to a more harmonious and prosperous world for all.

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