Foresight on Demand

Support to the Mission Board on 'Climate Neutral and Smart Cities of Horizon Europe'

FOD Cities

FOD I Completed
Client
DG RTD
Lead organisation
AIT
Year
2019
Start date
2019-10-11
Duration
6 months

Project summary

The foresight project Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities aimed to support the reflections of the corresponding Mission Board by providing future - oriented inputs on challenges and options in the area. The overarching goal of the project proposed was to c omplement the Mission Board’s deep and wide-ranging expertise with a foresight perspective. In particular, the project intended to develop a forward-looking perspective on the importance and future significance of the mission area. Starting with a systemic analysis, the FOD team identified urban challenges in existing forward-looking studies in order to determine the thematic scope together with the Mission Board, collected data about consolidated external and internal drivers, trends and practices as well as weak signals, potential disruptive events or incremental changes with a potentially substantial positive impact on cities.

Resources

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Final report

European Commission: Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, Dinges, M., Borsboom, J., Gualdi, M., Haindlmaier, G. et al., Mission area – Climate-neutral and smart cities – Foresight on demand brief in support of the Horizon Europe mission board, Publications Office of the European Union, 2021, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2777/123417

Project focus

Topics

Climate ChangeMobility & TransportEnergyEnvironment

Foresight methods

Systems MappingTrend AnalysisWeak Signal DetectionHorizon ScanningExpert Consultations

Policy objectives

Green TransitionSustainabilityResilienceAnticipatory Governance

Outputs

RecommendationsVision

Project type

Strategic ForesightStakeholder Engagement