Welcome to the UF Research and Innovation Ecosystem

The Universal Foresight Initiative brings together foresight practitioners in a quest to reload foresight and futures studies with a more comprehensive understanding of its impact, methodology and practice.

We hope that decision-makers will use this sort of platforms to achieve desirable futures and to better manage undesirable ones by preventing or building resilience…

 

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News

10.06.2020 - by Monika Popper

Public launch of the UF Platform

UF Call for Chapter Abstracts 29.04.2020 - by Monika Popper

Open Call for Abstracts

Open Call for Foresight Cases 29.04.2020 - by Rafael Popper

Open Call for Cases

Explore the UF Archives 29.04.2020 - by Rafael Popper

Explore the UF Archives

New blog feeds

04.03.2021 - by Tim Schatz

Attending the 'Foresight Methods'…

25.06.2020 - by Torsti Loikkanen

COVID-19 as “wild card” driver of…

16.06.2020 - by Guillermo Velasco

Computing the Human Brain

07.05.2020 - by Monika Popper

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Latest documents uploaded

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Transitions on the Horizon:…

Matthias Weber, Liviu Andreescu, Kerstin Cuhls, Bianca...
2018

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100 Radical Innovation…

Philine Warnke, Kerstin Cuhls, Ulrich Schmoch, Lea...
2019

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The Future of Forest-based…

Rafael Popper, Nina Rilla, Klaus Niemelä, Juha Oksanen,...
2020

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ERA Open Advise

Rafael Popper, Guillermo Velasco, Jakob Edler, Effie...
2015

Featured cases

The Human Brain Project

The Human Brain Project (HBP) is building a research infrastructure to help advance neuroscience, medicine, and...

RIBRI - Radical Innovation Breakthrough Inquirer EU

On behalf of the European Commission, an international Foresight team led by Fraunhofer ISI has investigated...

BOHEMIA - Beyond the Horizon - Foresight in Support of the Preparation of the...

Beyond the Horizon - Foresight in Support of the Preparation of the EU‘s Future Policy in Research and Innovation has...

Common Framework for Assessment and Management of Sustainable Innovation

The project “Public Participation in Developing a Common Framework for Assessment and Management of Sustainable...

Forest-based Bioeconomy Areas in Uruguay

The Forest-based Bioeconomy Areas in Uruguay and the World: Strategic openings by 2050 project (FBA-Uruguay) aims at...

Space Foresight Exercise UAE

Commercial study commissioned by UEA Space Agency. The overall goal of the UAESA project was to identify critical...