Foresight includes understanding the relevant recent past scanning to collect insight about present, futuring to describe the understood future including trend research environment research to explore possible trend breaks from developments on the fringe and other divergencies that may lead to alternative futures visioning to define preferred future states designing strategies to craft this future and adapting the present forces to implement this plan. This foresight used by and describing professional futurists trained in Master's programs is the research-driven practice of exploring expected and alternative futures and guiding futures to inform strategy. The foresight of futurology is also known as strategic foresight. Several non-European think-tanks like Strategic Foresight Group are also engaged in foresight studies. In addition, foresight methods are being used more and more in regional planning and decision –making (“regional foresight”). The FORSOCIETY network brings together national Foresight teams from most European countries, and the European Foresight Monitoring Project is collating material on Foresight activities around the world. In the last decade, scenario methods, for example, have become widely used in some European countries in policy-making. shaping the future, especially by influencing public policy.Foresight is a set of competencies and not a value system, however. debate and for some futurists who are normative and focus on action driven by their values who may be concerned with effort to create wider participatory democracy.critical thinking concerning long-term developments,.In futurology, especially in Europe, the term foresight has become widely used to describe activities such as:
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