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.

FORGING Context

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.

FORGING Methodology

The FORGING methodology

The FORGING methodology catalyses its stakeholder community (http://forging-hub.eu/get-involved-in-our-community-of-experts-the-forging-forum/) with 600 active members, from academia to industry, to CSS, to policy makers and to the broader society. We aim to organise numerous co-creation sessions, consultations with policy bodies, scenario workshops and Tech. and Innovation campaigns to drive tech adoption.

The FORGING Playbook and Toolbox will gather a set of facilitation guidance and materials for exploration, reflection, co-creation and evaluation of emerging technologies. These assets, jointly with the FORGING community, will sustain FORGING as a new flagship initiative on emerging enabling technologies.

FORGING Methodology