FOD FRA Foresight
FOD II Completed- Client
- FRA
- Lead organisation
- AIT
- Year
- 2024
- Start date
- 2024-12-16
- Duration
- 11.5 months
Project summary
This project is aimed at supporting FRA in providing advice to foresight practitioners, the EU institutions and Member States on how to foster a more focused attention on fundamental rights (FR) in foresight activities and on how to better integrate FR into their foresight work. This is the reason why one part of the project is dedicated to further developing and testing the FRA Foresight Guidance, and a second part to co-creatively implementing a FR foresight with a time horizon of 2040 and thereby applying and testing the principles of the FRA Foresight Guidance. A main driver for the project is the existence of a gap in foresight practice: fundamental rights are not explicitly considered in foresight activities, though they are an essential component for transformative governance in the European Union and its Member States (MS). The project context is related to the question of how the European Agency responsible for safeguarding fundamental rights in the EU – FRA – can integrate foresight into its advisory capacity for foresight practitioners, EU institutions and Member States? Though FRA already uses foresight approaches in its strategic activities and provides an impressing amount of publicly available anticipatory knowledge, FRA’s self-under-standing does not necessarily include foresight expertise, but rather stresses its core fundamental rights expertise. Therefore, this project answers to the specific demand of FRA that has a twofold need: further integrating foresight into FRA’s work and support in advising others on integrating FR into foresight. Tasks include horizon scanning, retrofitting the JRC scenarios, developing future pathways and stress-testing of identified policy options. Outputs encompass scenarios, foresight briefs, and the updated guidance for integrating fundamental rights into foresight.Resources
Project focus
Topics
Fundamental Rights
Foresight methods
Horizon ScanningScenario DevelopmentPolicy AnalysisParticipatory Workshops
Policy objectives
Anticipatory GovernanceHuman-Centric InnovationCapacity BuildingEvidence-informed Policymaking
Outputs
ScenariosGuidancePolicy BriefRecommendations
Project type
Strategic ForesightCapacity BuildingForesight Uptake