For applying the quality criteria the authors refer to the elements of a strategy process in forward looking activities developed by EFFLA [39] as : I) Strategic Intelligence, II) Sense Making, III) Selecting Priorities and IV) Implementation.
Gaining an understanding of futures is essential to RRI, and forward looking activities are therefore an integral part of the concept [5].
This paper is a case study of the application of forward looking activities in the 'Blue Growth' project.
In their paper, Niklas Gudowsky and Walter Peissl review the theoretical basis for transdisciplinary forward looking activities and provide first insights into an ongoing highly deliberative and reflexive Foresight and co-creation process engaging science, society and policy makers: CIMULACT – Citizen and Multi-Actor Consultation on Horizon2020.
This means to draw attention to foresight and forward looking activities that seek to change policy-making in a certain way.
Even though, forward looking activities have been and still are largely an experts' game, including a greater variety of actors and perspectives is a demand that practitioners and scholars have been articulating for decades [38, 39].
Here, stakeholder engagement has become a norm, but moving from interdisciplinary settings and stakeholders towards also including laypeople into forward looking activities can be increasingly observed [41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46].
Socio-economic and behavioural research and forward looking activities for policy making need to support improved policy making.
In the optimal case, forward looking activities can help reinforce the long-term perspective in company culture and provide a greater role to cross-cutting issues inside the industry [see e.g. 15].
Further, I tried to show that transformative criticism is very useful for validating the future knowledge produced in forward looking activities as it encompasses all forms of scientific criticism and still leaves space for foresight as a strongly transformative and interdisciplinary field to establish scientific standards.
But then I began to see a new way of understanding historic preservation: it was, at heart, a forward-looking activity, putting enough care into things already here, so they can survive to be a part of the "here" of a generation that hasn't yet arrived.
