Project Partners (Consortium)

The members of the consortium have a proven expertise and capability to initiate and sustain a European security related foresight process and manage multi-stakeholder policy processes. The consortium members have in-depth knowledge of foresight methodologies and European security as well as the European Security Research Programme; its aims and challenges and are therefore well-placed to facilitate a wider participatory foresight process aimed at bringing a broad societal perspective.

They key strengths of the consortium are:
• Experience and expertise in national, sectorial and regional foresight processes
• Thorough knowledge of European external and internal security and European and national security strategies
• Capacity to involve participants from governments, European institutions, civil society, private sector, academia through existing networks

The FORESEC consortium consists of six organisations from six European countries: Crisis Management Initiative (Finland), Austrian Research Centers System Research (Austria), the International Institute for Strategic Studies (the United Kingdom), the Swedish Defence Research Agency (Sweden), the Centre for Liberal Strategies (Bulgaria) and the Joint Research Centre (Italy). The project is funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Program.