The Foresight-on-Demand (FOD) framework contract enables the European Commission to quickly access future knowledge and enhance anticipatory capacities within its organizations. This knowledge, developed through participatory processes, guides Europe’s investment plans for science, technology, and innovation.
Foresight projects under FOD offer science-based, systemic, and participatory approaches to generate forward-looking knowledge, supporting current policy-making processes. These projects produce concrete outcomes like scenarios, visions, and action recommendations, shared via reports, blogs, and newsletters. Additionally, Foresight processes have indirect benefits, such as strengthening stakeholder networks through participatory workshops, events, Delphi surveys, and interviews, which support long-term agile and transformative policymaking.
We are excited to announce our four-year partnership in the FOD consortium for DG RTD, led by AIT Austrian Institute of Technology!
The consortium has expanded with competent European partners. In addition to VA, it now includes fifteen leading research, university, and consultancy organizations in foresight and R&I policy, involving:
- AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna (lead partner)
- Arctik, Brussels
- Center for Social Innovation, Vienna
- 4CF The Futures Literacy Company, Warsaw
- 4strat, Berlin
- Finland Futures Research Centre, Turku
- Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, Karlsruhe
- IDEA Consult, Brussels
- Insight Foresight Institute, Madrid
- Institutul de Prospectiva, Bucharest
- ISINNOVA Institute of Studies for the Integration of Systems, Rome
- RAND Europe, Cambridge/Brussels
- Technology Centre, Prague
- Technopolis Group, Brussels
Visionary Analytics, together with the aforementioned partners, will handle future contracts together with five associated partner organisations and a global network of foresight experts. The specialised partners associated to this offer consist of five leading research and consultancy organisations in Europe covering diverse thematic fields, foresight, and R&I policy:
- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Cologne
- Eunomia, Bristol
- Prognos, Berlin
- TIS, Lisbon
- VTT, Helsinki
The Foresight-on-Demand framework contract runs from April 2024 to March 2028.
