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Using foresight to examine the global food system
On behalf of the UK Food Standards Agency, RAND Europe conducted foresight exercises to gain a long-term perspective on the global food system. The team used a three horizons framework and bespoke horizon scanning approach to identify threats and opportunities for the UK and wider global food system out to 2030.
Scenarios help explore the future of education and youth in the EU
Researchers developed a set of scenarios to explore the future of education and youth in the EU, and found that personalised learning policies could be helpful across all scenarios if funded sufficiently and targeted appropriately. Supporting and reinforcing the teaching profession is also key.
How Horizon Scanning Can Give the Military a Technological Edge
Horizon scanning could promote innovative practices and innovation uptake, through the adoption of new ideas, equipment, and methods, with benefits that could positively affect the UK economy as a whole. But a wider mechanism for processing and assessing the selected developments would be needed.
Violent Extremism Evaluation Measurement (VEEM) Framework
A key challenge in counter violent extremism evaluation is the lack of commonly agreed metrics to measure behavioural changes in people. RAND Europe researchers developed a web-based framework that lists behavioural categories, attributes, and suggested measurement tools.
Exploring Europe's defence capability requirements for 2035 and beyond
Researchers employed horizon scanning methodology to identify new and emerging technologies, strategies and societal developments that might affect capability requirements extending to 2035. The team also developed a range of scenarios used in the context of a table-top exercise analysing the capability implications of future conflicts and operations.
The future of Arctic cooperation in a changing strategic environment
The study examined factors that could potentially upset Arctic cooperation in the coming decade. Participants in a table-top exercise considered the reactions of stakeholders to successive events designed to trigger responses that ranged from low-intensity to potential conflict.
Using historical foresight to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
Researchers examined complex and enduring policy issues that have implications for public health to gain a new perspective on how to tackle AMR. The team combined literature review and interviews with scenario planning and analysis to explore how historical analysis can be used to inform future AMR policy.
Mediterranean Foresight Forum
The Mediterranean Foresight Forum (MFF) was a RAND-funded effort to connect political, social, economic and technological developments in the region with policy agendas. The MFF supported the development of comprehensive, integrated civil-military responses to complex challenges through an innovative combination of research, future scenario-based sensitivity analysis and table top-exercises.
Examining future transport scenarios to drive innovation in the UK
The UK’s roads, railways and airports are some of the most congested in the world. At the request of Innovate UK, RAND Europe identified emerging technologies that could impact the transport network and developed three future travel scenarios to explore how they might make the transport system more efficient and effective by the year 2035.