Supports the economic growth in South-East Europe by promoting innovative solutions and facilitating the transfer of technologies and know-how. 

The first organization in the South- East region to implement foresight methods to shape public policy.

Long-term visioning and priority-setting are highly relevant aspects in the context of research and innovation
(R&I) policymaking. Developing a clear and compelling long-term vision helps guide the direction of R&I activities,
while effective priority-setting ensures that resources are allocated to areas with the greatest potential impact.
The MLE focuses on addressing the challenge of developing long-term visions for STI policies in the face of rapid
technological, economic, societal, and geopolitical changes, including the use of AI, and discussing how foresight
approaches and methods can contribute to setting strategic goals and priorities.

The context

Technological breakthroughs empowered by enabling technologies hold a transformation potential that can be funneled to address industrial and societal grand challenges, like greening and digitalisation. To exploit this transformative potential, the innovation journey that leads new emerging technologies to their market-uptake shall embed value-sensitive considerations, such as environmental and societal implications.

The FORGING Solution

FORGING proposes a new methodology that breaks linear innovation trajectories to stimulate new technological visions and pathways attentive to the environment and society, and human-centred in alignment with Industry 5.0. technological frameworks. FORGING will create enabling frameworks to accelerate the pick-up of novel and responsible enabling technologies: through the development of 6 Technological Pathways, emerging enabling technologies will be positioned at their maturity levels and their deployment and industry absorption will be promoted for positive societal impact.