The ESPAS (European Strategy and Policy Analysis System) Annual Conference, this year entitled “Building Europe’s Future: Time for Strategic Choices”, was held on 14th November and as with the WFSF…
Author: Tony Diggle
The World Futures Studies Federation's 50th Anniversary Conference
The World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF) was founded in Paris in 1973 as a global network of leading futurists, committed to truly global futures and to creating alternative futures that…
The UN Report 'Our Common Agenda' and Foresight – 2
In last week’s blog, we looked back at the UN Secretary-General’s Report, “Our Common Agenda”, published in September 2021 in response to a request from Member States for recommendations on…
The UN Report: Our Common Agenda and Foresight - 1
In September 2020, on the 75th Anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, Member States asked for recommendations so that they could better respond to current and future challenges.…
Transatlantic Co-operation on Strategic Foresight
On 14th March, 2022, Maros Sefcovic, Vice-President of the European Commission for Interinstitutional Relations and Foresight held a fireside chat with Julia Friedlander of the Atlantic Council GeoEconomics Center, to…
Futures Literacy and Anticipation
Anticipation is a growing trend. In January, Jonathan Blanchard Smith reviewed the European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS) Conference in November 2020, which launched the EU-wide strategic foresight network.…