General Foresight Studies 

• Fraunhofer (2009): FORESIGHT-PROZESS IM AUFTRAG DES BMBF http://www.bmbf.de/pub/Foresight-Prozess_BMBF_Zukunftsfelder_neuen_Zuschnitts.pdf

 

• European Commission (2009) THE WORLD IN 2025 http://ec.europa.eu/research/social-sciences/pdf/the-world-in-2025-report_en.pdf  
  
• WFUNA Millennium Project State of the Future 2010: http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/2010SOF.html (50 USD)

 
 

Should we include TNO reports, e.g. Megatrend Report, Robotics4Healthcare etc.  
 

ICT, Robotics, AI 

• Frog Design + Fast Company: The Future of Healthcare is Social (http://images.fastcompany.com/health-care/FC_FutureofHealthcare.pdf) 
  
• Ala-Mutka, Kirsti; Punie, Yves Redecker, Christine (2008) ICT for Learning, Innovation and Creativity (JRC Technical Notes) (http://ftp.jrc.es/EURdoc/JRC48707.TN.pdf) 
  
• Collins, Chris (2008) Higher Education in the Metaverse. In Educause Revies September/October 2008. (www.educause.edu/library/erm0853)

 

• Weiss, Astrid / Tscheligi, Manfred (2010) Special Issue on Robots for Future Societies: Evaluating Social Acceptance and Societal Impact of Robots (http://www.springerlink.com/content/w378r1273w3p7241/fulltext.pdf)

 

• Belbachir, A. N. / Drobics, M. / Marschitz, W. (2010) Ambient Assisted Living for ageing well – an overview (http://www.springerlink.com/content/tp32k47465200806/fulltext.pdf)

 
 

Life Science, Health & Medicine 

• Observatory Nano (2010) Focus Report Nanotechnology in Regenerative Medicine (http://www.observatorynano.eu/project/filesystem/files/Nano%20regenerative%20medicine%20technical%20economic%20-%20final%20-%2023%20April%202010.pdf) 

 

• The Lancet (2009) Managing the health effects of climate change (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/global-health/ucl-lancet-climate-change.pdf)

 

• The Danish Council for Strategic Research (2006) Danish national foresight study “The Aging Society 2030” (http://en.fi.dk/publications/2006/the-ageing-society-2030/the-ageing-society-2030.pdf)

 

• FIDIS (2007) Future of Identity in the Information Society (http://www.fidis.net/fileadmin/fidis/ deliverables/fidis-wp12-d12.2_Study_on_Emerging_ AmI_Technologies.pdf)

 

• The Royal Academy of Engineering (2009) Synthetic Biology: scope, applications and implications (http://www.raeng.org.uk/news/publications/list/reports/Synthetic_biology.pdf) 
  
• Alzheimer’s Disease International (2010) World Alzheimer Report 2010 The Global Economic Impact of Dementia http://www.alz.co.uk/research/files/WorldAlzheimerReport2010.pdf  
  
• EASAC (2010) Realising European potential in synthetic biology: scientific opportunities and good governance http://www.leopoldina.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Politik/Empfehlungen/EASAC/Synthetic_Biology_report.pdf  
  

Nutrition, Agri-Food 

• European Technology Platform (2008): Food for Life http://www.ciaa.be/documents/brochures/Broch%20ETP_IAPlan_1.pdf

 

• IPTS (2008) Functional Food in the European Union ftp://ftp.jrc.es/pub/EURdoc/JRC43851.pdf  
• EU Commission - Standing Committee on Agricultural Research (SCAR) (2008) New challenges for agricultural research: climate change, food security, rural development, agricultural knowledge systems (http://ec.europa.eu/research/agriculture/scar/pdf/scar_2nd_foresight_exercise_en.pdf)  
  

Energy & Environment 

• IEA (2008) World Energy Outlook (http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/2008.asp)

 

• TREVOR FINDLAY (2010): THE FUTURE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY TO 2030 AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR SAFETY, SECURITY AND NONPROLIFERATION (http://www.carleton.ca/cctc/docs/nef/nef_ part1.pdf)

 

• JRC (2010) Strategic cooperation sets the scene for geological disposal of nuclear waste in Europe (http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/downloads/jrc_aaas_20100219_newsrelease_geological_disposal_en.pdf) 
  
• University Manchester (2010): European biofuels to 2020 and beyond (http://www.sci.manchester.ac.uk/medialibrary/foresight_of_biofuels_exec_summary.pdf)

 

• ETP (2010) SmartGrids Strategic Deployment Document for Europe’s Electricity Networks of the Future (http://www.smartgrids.eu/documents/SmartGrids_SDD_FINAL_APRIL2010.pdf)

 

• Paul Scherrer Institute (2009) Illustrating Perspectives of Energy and Mobility (http://eem.web.psi.ch/Publications/Other_Reports/PSI_Report_Transport.pdf)

 

• World Energy Council (2007) Deciding the Future: Energy Policy Scenarios to 2050 (http://www.worldenergy.org/documents/scenarios_study_es_online.pdf) 
  
• UN (2010) Energy for a Sustainable Future (http://www.un.org/wcm/webdav/site/climatechange/shared/Documents/AGECC%20summary%20report%5B1%5D.pdf)

 

• Jacobson, Mark Z. / Delucchi, Mark A. (2010) Providing all global energy with wind, water, and solar power, Part I: Technologies, energy resources, quantities and areas of infrastructure,and materials (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V2W-51TXP82-2&_user=603085&_coverDate=12%2F30%2F2010&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_origin=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000031079&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=603085&md5=469ee09356023bb67e643013aea8d2e5&searchtype=a)

 

• Jacobson, Mark Z. / Delucchi, Mark A. (2010): Providing all global energy with wind, water, and solar power, Part II: Reliability, system and transmission costs, and policies 9 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V2W-51V8Y6H-1&_user=603085&_coverDate=12%2F31%2F2010&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_origin=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000031079&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=603085&md5=c2e3e87b8d387c3b9a3c63e775b8415e&searchtype=a)

 

Society, Culture, Education & Economy 

• World Economic Forum (2008): The Future of Pensions and Healthcare in a Rapidly Aging World (http://www.weforum.org/pdf/scenarios/Transforming-Pensions-Healthcare.pdf) 
  
• Strategic Foresight Group (2008): Global Security and Economy. Emerging Issues Report (http://www.strategicforesight.com/Global%20Security_Economy%5B1%5D.pdf)  

 

• Talwar, Rohit / Hancock, Tim (2010) The shape of jobs to come Possible New Careers Emerging from Advances in Science and Technology (2010 – 2030) http://fastfuture.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/FastFuture_Shapeofjobstocome_FullReport1.pdf  
  
• Davidson, Cathy N.; Goldenberg, David T. (2009) The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age (McArthur Foundation) (http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/Future_of_Learning.pdf)

 

• IBM (2009) Education for a Smarter Planet: The Future of Learning. (ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/common/ssi/sa/wh/n/gbw03078usen/GBW03078USEN.PDF)

 

• INSEAD (2008) E-Skills, Competitiveness and Employability Knowledge Societies’ Next Frontier (http://www.insead.edu/facultyresearch/centres/elab/documents/E-SkillsWhitepaperv4.32oct08_000.pdf)

 

• Kramer, Mark A.M. (2008) Mobile Learning Foresight: The Future of Learning. University Salzburg (http://mamk.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/mlearn2008_shortpaper_mamkramer_final.pdf  
  
• Punie, Yves; Ala-Mutka, Kirsti; Redecker, Christine (eds.) (2009) School's Over: Learning Spaces in Europe in 2020: An Imagining Exercise on the Future of Learning  (JRC/IPTS) ftp://ftp.jrc.es/pub/EURdoc/JRC47412.pdf