Why now?
In order to keep its industrial sovereignty, Europe must secure early leadership in these new and emerging enabling technologies.
The FORGING methodology analyses the current state-of-the-art of these technologies, to envision all possible future scenarios for their deployment, it identifies challenges, needs, risks and potentialities, and promotes a value-sensitive approach for new solutions and their deployment taking into consideration their societal and environmental impact.
Building on this multi-level approach, in line with the European Union priorities, particularly the EU Green Deal, the 2030 Digital Compass, the EU Industrial Strategy and relevant national and regional priorities, FORGING involves experts from various backgrounds to ensure alignment of solutions with needs and anticipating trends to guide industry solutions towards value-sensitive applications. The co-creation method deployed with the Forum of experts aims at resulting in specific use cases with transformative potential.
The FORGING future Playbook and Toolkit represent proactive tools in order to facilitate guidance and materials for exploration, reflection, co-creation and evaluation of emerging technologies.