FOCUS Mid-Term Symposium

FOCUS Mid-Term Symposium

Hotel Sacher Philharmonikerstrasse 4, 1010 Vienna/Austria

Tuesday, 13 March 2012

h: 09:00 - 16:30

FORESIGHT SECURITY SCENARIOS

Scenarios for future exogenous roles of the EU in civil security

What stakeholders need and what future security research should heed

Objectives: FOCUS will help shape European security research to enable the EU to effectively respond to tomorrow's challenges stemming from the globalization of risks, threats and vulnerabilities. FOCUS will concentrate on alternative future EU roles to prevent or respond to incidents situated on the "borderline" between the internal and external dimensions of the security affecting the Union and its citizens. It will do so by elaborating multiple scenarios, based on IT-supported foresight, in the form of alternative futures. These will be plausibility-probed versus mere threat scenarios. The main contribution of FOCUS is to develop an effective long-term foresight and assessment tool at the EU level, populated with the analyses carried out by the project. Moreover, FOCUS will deliver tangible products (such as an IT platform) and contents (i.e., a roadmap) for planning research and deciding on priorities. These products are usable beyond the project.

More info visit the link: http://www.focusproject.eu/