Lorenz Erdmann, Dipl.-Ing.

• Horizon Scanning – debiasing, participatory, semiautomated
• Scenarios – co-creation, alternative, story & simulation (SAS)
• Environmental Foresight – raw materials, human-technology-environment relations, transformations
• Research and innovation futures  
• Exploration of unconventional Foresight topics – Living Labs, values, time 

• Fod 2 – Foresight on Demand in Science, Technology, Research and Innovation Policy (EC DG Research and Innovation, 2024-2028)
• European Topic Centre on Sustainability Transitions  (EEA, 2022-2026)
• Accompany Research on FONA-Strategy - Fraunhofer ISI (BMBF, 2022-2026)
• Integration of Sustainability and Digitization at the EU Level and Institutional Challenges of Systemic Policy Approaches - Fraunhofer ISI (UBA, 2022-2025)
• Strategic Horizon Scanning of Developments Relevant to Climate Protection - Klimascan (UBA/BMWK, 2021-2025)
• Environmental Research and Governance in the Digital Age (UBA/BMU, 2020-2023)
• Raw Materials for Emerging Technologies 2021 - Fraunhofer ISI (DERA/BGR, 2019-2021)
• Orientalisation towards the Common Good in the Age of Digitalisation; Link to the publication with a 10 page project summary in English: Digitalisierung und Gemeinwohl (German Environment Agency UBA, 2018-2021)
• Time Rebound, Time Prosperity, and Sustainable Consumption (ReZeitKon) (BMBF, 2018-2021)
• Digitization and Environment  - Digi & Ökot - Fraunhofer ISI (German Environment Agency UBA, 2017–2019)
• Living Labs in the Green Economy: Real-world innovation spaces for user-integration and sustainability (INNOLAB) (German Ministry of Education and Research BMBF, 2015-2018
• MICA – Minerals Intelligence Capacity Analysis: Stakeholder identification and appraisal of emerging information needs in the field of primary and secondary raw materials (EC DG Research and Innovation, 2015-2018)
• Foresight on the Impact of Changing Value Systems on European Research and Innovation Policies: Signals, Drivers, and Responses (EC DG Research and Innovation, 2015-2016) 
• Commons-based Peer Production in Open Workshops: a decentralized path into the Green Economy  (BMBF, 2014-2027)
• Critical Raw Materials Innovation Network (CRM_InnoNet ) – Substitution of Critical Raw Materials (EC DG Research and Innovation, 2012-2015)
• BMBF Foresight Cycle 2 - Fraunhofer ISI (BMBF, 2012-2014)
• VERA: Vision for the European Research Area (EC DG Research and Innovation, 2012-2014)
• Research and Innovation Futures 2030: From explorative to transformative scenarios (EC DG Research and Innovation, 2011-2013)
• Sustainability Innovations in Living Labs (German Ministry of Education and Research BMBF, 2011-2012)

Erdmann, L.; Kimpeler, S. (2025): Debiasing with Foresight. A horizon scanning process on the digitalisation of research and policymaking. In: Kox, T.: Uncertain Journeys into Digital Futures. Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research for Mitigating Wicked Societal and Environmental Problems. Baden-Baden: Nomos. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748947585

European Environment Agency (Ed.) (2025): Imagining a sustainable Europe in 2050. EEA Report 03/2025. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.  https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/publications/imagining-a-sustainable-europe-in-2050

Cuhls, K.; Dönitz, E.; Erdmann, L.; Gransche, B.; Kimpeler, S.; Schirrmeister, E.; Warnke, Ph.: Foresight. Fifty years to think your futures. In: Edler, Jakob; Walz, Rainer (Eds.) (2024): Systems and innovation research in transition. Research questions and trends over the last 50 years. Heidelberg: Springer. https://www.isi.fraunhofer.de/de/50-jahre-isi/sammelband-50-jahre-isi/foresight.html

European Environment Agency (Ed.) (2024): Transformative Resilience: the key to governing Europe's sustainability transitions in the polycrisis. EEA Report 10/2023. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union. https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/publications/transformative-resilience-the-key-to-governing

Erdmann, L.; Lange, B. (2019): Technology assessment for the society of singularities. New impulses from a cultural theory perspective using the example of open workshops. Journal article in Journal for Theory and Praxis of Technology Assessment v. 28, n. 1, p. 65-70. https://doi.org/10.14512/tatup.28.1.65

Erdmann, L.; Schirrmeister, E. (2016): Constructing transformative scenarios for research and innovation futures, Journal article in Foresight 18 (2016), pp. 238-252. https://doi.org/10.1108/FS-06-2014-0041

Erdmann, L.; Graedel, T. E.: The Criticality of Non-Fuel Minerals: A Review of Major Approaches and Analyses. Journal article in Environmental Science & Technology 45(18), 2011, pp. 7620–7630. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es200563g

Erdmann, L.; Hilty, L.: Scenario Analysis: Exploring the Macroeconomic Impacts of Information and Communication Technologies on Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Journal article in Journal of Industrial Ecology 14(5) 2010, pp. 826–843. https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1530-9290.2010.00277.X