The Competence Centre on Foresight supports EU policy making by providing strategic and future-oriented input; developing an anticipatory culture inside the European Commission; continuously experimenting and developing different methods and tools to make foresight practically useful for decision making processes.

Foresight is the disciplined analysis of alternative futures. Foresight aims to support policymakers in making better-informed decisions, having considered future eventualities, scenarios and outcomes.

Foresight is the discipline of exploring, anticipating and shaping the future to help building and using collective intelligence in a structured, and systemic way to anticipate developments. Strategic foresight, on the other hand, seeks to embed foresight into European Union policy-making. Strategic Foresight is not about predicting the future; it explores different possible futures, alongside the opportunities and challenges they might present. In the context of raw materials, the EC has produced analyses both in relation to supply as well as demand.

Foresight is the discipline of exploring, anticipating and shaping the future to help building and using collective intelligence in a structured, and systemic way to anticipate developments. Strategic foresight, on the other hand, seeks to embed foresight into European Union policy-making. It builds on collective intelligence in a structured and systematic way to help better develop possible transition pathways, prepare the EU to withstand shocks and shape the future we want.

The ECDC Foresight Programme is a cross-cutting strategic programme aimed to inform strategic decisions and policy in the area of infectious disease prevention and control.

EDA Technology Watch & Foresight activities address questions such as: What worldwide scientific developments could impact defence and security in the future? How do we ensure awareness to emerging scientific developments? How do we exploit new technology and thinking to overcome our current challenges?

The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) is the Union's agency dedicated to achieving a high common level of cybersecurity across Europe. ENISA contributes to EU cyber policy, enhances the trustworthiness of ICT products, services and processes with cybersecurity certification schemes, cooperates with Member States and EU bodies, and helps Europe prepare for the cyber challenges of tomorrow.

Foresight approaches bring together diverse viewpoints to explore and anticipate future developments, helping society to plan and build resilience in the present.

Strategic foresight, while conducted for decision-making, is mainly done by entities slightly removed from the running of day-to-day business. After all, its role is precisely to challenge the assumptions of institutions, to search for and detect weak signals, to inspect the outer contours of events, and to investigate areas which do not necessarily feature in the headlines. The EUISS is one of those bodies built for such an enterprise.

The foresight platform futures4europe was launched to support engagement with strategic foresight activities for Horizon Europe. It brings together foresight experts and R&I policy-makers from across the EU, collecting national and European foresight projects and promoting futures literacy through educational material and relevant newsletters.