Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI
The Competence Center Foresight develops and conducts strategic foresight processes in enterprises, politics and society.
Our aim is to strengthen the futures literacy of our clients and of society as a whole with customized foresight activities. Our foresight methods are suitable for the analysis of future options and challenges and provide orientation for dealing with uncertain futures and crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
We support you in the development of future strategies, e.g. by applying horizon scanning, trend analyses, creative dialogues, scenario processes or road mapping. With our methods, we promote the exploration of alternative future scenarios, initiate learning processes, question biases and open up new options to create your future for you. This also includes participatory methods for stakeholder involvement, e.g. in scenario development or co-creation workshops.
Our interdisciplinary team
- searches for and evaluates signals of change in technology and society,
- works alongside our clients and stakeholders to develop alternative scenarios for the future, and
- supports the development of robust future strategies.
In our research and consulting projects
- We work with scientifically based foresight methods.
- We customize the processes and formats in order to integrate them into the ongoing strategic processes of the respective organization.
- We offer transparent, well-documented processes which reveal future expectations and interdependencies.
- We involve experts and stakeholders whenever possible to increase the validity of the results and strengthen the futures literacy.
News
- Kickoff-Meeting of the EU project SOLO
- Asylum Scenarios 2032 published together with the European Union Agency for Asylum
- Article published in Futures: »The potential of futures literacy for impact-oriented business schools«
- Would you like to join our Foresight team? We are hiring... (jobs.fraunhofer.de)
- Podcast "Neugefragt"by Katrina Günther, Lilith Boettcher, Wenzel Mehnert and Bernd Hopfengärtner on the speculative future narratives explored during the Berlin Science Week
- A journey into different futures at the Berlin Science Week on 07.11.22, for more details visit the project FAQInformatics
- Project for Münsterland e.V. completed and reports on 5 think tanks available now
- New publication: Future agricultural systems and the role of digitalization for achieving sustainability goals. A review
- Article published in the European Journal of Futures Research: Setting life cycle assessment (LCA) in a future-oriented context: the combination of qualitative scenarios and LCA in the agri-food sector
- Dynamic Argumentative Delphi – a BOHEMIA project paper has been published in collaboration with our colleagues Kerstin Cuhls and Aaron Rosa.
- Project "Orientation towards the common good in the digital age: Transformation narratives between planetary boundaries and artificial intelligence" completed under the lead of the Competence Center Foresight.
- What do food systems need for their transformation? They need broad democratic directionality supported by responsible, pluralistic, collaborative, and open research, according to our colleague Kerstin Cuhls in a new Nature Food publication (Duncan et al. (2022): Democratic directionality for transformative food systems research).
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