7 Jul 2005

Foresight in the Lisbon process

XTREME EUFORIA: COMBINING FORESIGHT METHODS a link
Rafael Popper, Werner B. Korte

Keywords: Foresight methods, Knowledge Society, Europe and the Lisbon objectives.

(EU-US SEMINAR: NEW TECHNOLOGY FORESIGHT, FORECASTING & ASSESSMENT METHODS. Seville 13-14 May 2004)

"The EUFORIA project was launched to explore the Knowledge Society and new ways of organising, designing and managing foresight activities. The combination of several 'hard' (performance indicators, critical influences analysis) and 'soft' (literature review, brainstorming, panels, workshops, Delphi and scenario building) techniques was carried out in a multi-cultural and cross-regional setting to achieve further insights and gain experiences with respect to the strengths and weaknesses of different individual and combined approaches for goal achievement as part of foresight activities."

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Euforia, Knowledge Society Foresight Reports

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The knowledge society in Greece: current situation and future trends
"Scenarios for the development of a KS in Greece
Background
Based on the current situation and the major drivers and trends characterising the course of Greece to the Knowledge Society, three scenarios were developed:

- the “Awakening” scenario where social change and radical reconsideration occurs and the conditions are created for the trends to have positive impacts and for the negative impacts to be tackled,
- the “Lethargy” scenario with no major changes from today (business as usual), and
- the “Nightmare” scenario where the characterising trends lead to negative impacts due to ineffectiveness of measures, no real change and other external factors with severe consequences."

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