Why now?
Europe is currently very strong in many sectors, but to keep its industrial sovereignty, it must secure early leadership in these new and emerging enabling technologies. FORGING methodology comes in as a new approach to analyse the current state-of-the-art of these technologies, to envision all possible future scenarios for its deployment, that involves stakeholders from the quadruple helix of each ecosystems, it identifies challenges, needs, risks and potentialities, and promotes a value-sensitive approach for new solutions and their deployment taking into consideration its societal and environmental impact, and the implications of these novel technologies.
Building this multi-level approach, in line with the Commission priorities, particularly the EU Green Deal, the 2030 Digital Compass, the EU Industrial Strategy and relevant national and regional priorities, FORGING provides a guidance and help industry and society to embrace technology pathways towards more digital and greener transition by promoting the absorption of novel emerging technologies.
The FORGING future Playbook and Toolkit represent proactive tools resulting from this new methodology in order to facilitate guidance and materials for exploration, reflection, co-creation and evaluation of emerging technologies.
Be part of FORGING
Getting involved with the FORGING Forum grants access to a series of foresight and open innovation workshops and expert interviews to co-design and co-create a plurality of potential future directions and draw attention to the social shaping of technology development, avoiding narrow visions for the future.
The FORGING Innovation journey is halfway through its deployment and we would like to invite you to be part of it.
Join the Forum and the upcoming workshops to:
- Develop the criteria to assess emerging technologies in terms of their societal and environmental impact.
- Select the 3 most promising technologies from each technological framework.
- Expand the co-creation to develop specific use-cases based on the match be
- tween the needs (market pull) and the technologies (market push).