After our report to the European Commission to develop a system for using foresight to develop EU R&I in which we developed four global scenarios for 2040 and expanded on these…
Category: Futures
Opportunities and risks for 2022
This week’s blog post captures the results of an online workshop session of SAMI Principals, brainstorming potential radical events in 2022. We worked through a basic PESTLE format to generate…
Everyone for themselves – the world after COP26
COP26 concluded on 12 November. Since then, we have seen quick takes, considered reviews, relief and anger. Too little has been done; too much has been done. The ground has…
Lessons from ESPAS 2021
SAMI Fellows David Lye and Jonathan Blanchard Smith attended ESPAS 2021, the annual meeting of the European Strategy and Policy Analysis System, on 18-19 November. The second day of the…
EC SAFIRE Scenarios: The Journey Game
This is the third in a series of ten blogs based on a report to the European Commission by SAMI and a consortium of partners, IFOK, Cadmus, and Teknologi Radet, to…
EC SAFIRE Scenarios Sample: Life in Oak
This is the second in a series of blogs based on a report to the European Commission by SAMI and a consortium of partners, IFOK, Cadmus, and Teknologi Radet, to…