Design for Future Needs, EU

A European Commission project

• Aim: to help EU decision-makers respond to emerging issues and trends from environmental pressures to technological change
• Using corporate design foresight initiatives (as applied at Whirlpool, Decathlon, BAA and others) as methodological case studies for EU policy makers
• Demonstrated how design thinking can be used in policy planning, specifically the EU science and technology policies and its strategies for industrial R&D programmes