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Below you’ll find links to recent projects that shiftN has participated in and that illustrate some of our interests and capabilities.
Urban Agriculture Futures (2010)
shiftN initiates a new collaborative futures project on the contribution Urban Agriculture to the viability of our planetary society in the next few decades. The concept document below explains the logic of this project and will, as a result of a broad consultation round, be further developed into a formal project proposal.
Future of Iran as a Regional Power (2009)
A shiftN-facilitated conference of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service jointly sponsored by Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, National Defence Canada and the Privy Council Office
Witboek Landbouwonderzoek (2009)
A project commissioned by the Flemish Platform for Agricultural Research (2009), uniting key research institutes and funders, to identify long-term priorities for agricultural research. The process was designed and facilitated by shiftN
Report (in Flemish)
2025 Fields for Food or Fuel (2008)
This collaborative project explores how agricultural resources as raw material for food, feed, fuel and other non-food sectors might shape the European business, societal and regulatory environment in the global context over the next 20 years.
Website
Project Proposal (in PDF)
Summary Brochure
Foresight Mental Capital & Wellbeing (2007-2008)
This broad ranging project is seeking to "produce a challenging and long-term vision for maximising Mental Capital and Wellbeing in the UK in the twenty-first century - both for the benefit of society, and for the individual".
Patienten als Partners (2007-2008)
In 2008, the Belgian King Baudouin Foundation organised a multistakeholder consultation to better understand and reinforce patient participation in health care and health care policy. The project was led and reported by shiftN.
Full Report (in Flemish, with English summary)
Executive Summary (in Flemish)
Radical Worlds in 2020 (2006-2007)
A set of future scenarios elaborated by a multinational Community of Interest under tutelage of the Global Futures Forum (US). Interactive workshops, designed and facilitated by shiftN, were held in Brussels (2-4 October 2006) and The Hague (12-14 December 2007).
Foresight Obesity (2006)
This project brought together the best available scientific data to "produce a long-term vision of how we can deliver a sustainable response to obesity in the UK over the next 40 years".
Interactive obesity-system model
Website
Final Report
Nature Article
System Atlas
Nutrition & Health 2020 (2005)
Scenarios for a health-conscious society describes three different ways in which Europe reacts to the challenge of bringing nutritional habits in line with the requirements of a healthy lifestyle.
Krachtvoer voor Dialoog (2003-2005)
Between 2003 and 2005 the King Baudouin Foundation supported some 20 initiatives aimed at promoting cooperation and dialogue in the domain of food production and consumption. This constituted a major challenge in a sector that was in crisis (food production), characterised by diverging interests (the environment versus agriculture, animal welfare versus meat production and so on) and not very open to the outside world. The Foundation endeavoured, through dialogue and discussion, to determine what makes such a dialogue or cooperation successful. The process was designed, facilitated and reported by shiftN.
Full Report (in Flemish, with English summary):
