2019 is going to end and we are already thinking what the new year will bring.Gartner’s analysts already studied the top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2020, trying to identify the main technologies that organizations should explore in the future.The...

While on Monday the partners met for the last project meeting, in order to discuss the main open issues and finalizing all the materials to upload on the website, on Tuesday they all took part to the Final Conference. During this public event the main...

The United Nations but also the European Union understood the importance to re-think growth in a more inclusive way to enhance sustainable development. This purpose can be achieved, among others, by technological innovation efforts to reach more...

Foresight in European Union: tomorrow is already todayIn all the languages ​​spoken within the European Union there isn’t any corresponding term that faithfully translates the word foresight. The best way, therefore, to approach this technique is to start...

In July 2019, Alicja Gudanowska, representing BUT research team, attended a summer school in China.  The school is organized by the Ningbo Institute of Technology at Zhejiang University in China and the Faculty of Engineering Management at BUT. During the...

As a methodology for predicting the most likely technological developments in the mid-term future, technology foresight analysis can support different kinds of subjects in planning a technological strategy and controlling its evolution in time.Among the...

Futures Conference 2019 in Turku, Finland Presentation and workshop: Becoming future-oriented in the age digitalisationAuthor: Stefanie Ollenburg, research associate at Freie Universitaet Berlin, for the Erasmus+ beFORE projectAt the 20th International...

The 7th partnership meeting of the beFORE project took place in Warsaw on 2nd and 3rd July 2019, hosted by 4CF.The meeting felt in a critical phase for the project. In May and June 2019 the pilot test of the training course was implemented in the 4 partner...

Author: Jon AldazabalManagers of a growing number of companies and institutions are realising that their current organisational design is a suit that’s starting to get a little tight. The time of manufacturing and/or service provision in large series with...