The EU Policy Lab uses foresight, behavioural insights and design to help policymakers map out the policy landscape and the challenges they face going forward. We provide strategic and future-oriented input through continuous experimenting and developing different methods and tools to make foresight practical for decision-making.

Supply chain dependencies pose serious threats to our economy. Understanding their impact is crucial.

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Learning from good practices that worked in other territories,
experimenting with all policies landing in the territories, establishing a
comprehensive governance framework and enhancing inter-territorial
cooperation are key to stay at a competitive edge and strengthen our
European strategic autonomy

Addressing complex challenges requires different tools, mindsets and approaches from traditional ones. This publication is a milestone in our research on place-based transformative innovation, an example of cocreation with key stakeholders and a living document that we will enrich with ongoing support to territories.

Anticipatory thinking and foresight are of utmost importance to help explore trends, risks, emerging issues, and their potential implications and opportunities in order to draw useful insights for strategic planning, policy-making and preparedness. The findings include a set of 106 signals and trends on emerging technologies and disruptive innovations.

Foresight scenarios are a tool to improve strategy development and decision making in a context of turbulence, uncertainty, novelty, and ambiguity. The reference scenarios presented in this report can be used to stress-test current and future policies and to increase the preparedness under increasingly unpredictable circumstances.