Step 1 Horizon Scanning

The horizon scanning activity (WP1) is based on three pillars: 

• Task 1.1 Publication analysis (Computer aided analysis of scientific publications)
  
• Task 1.2 FET Portfolio analysis (Systematic analysis of portfolio and community of the FET activities as well as other funding agencies with similar profile)
  
• Task 1.3 Web-mining (Computer aided analysis of future oriented tweets and blogs)
  
• Task 1.4 Scouting (Systematic screening of fringe sources such as non-mainstream media outlets and science fiction literature, interviews) 
  

 
Task1.1. and 1.2 will reveal mainly new interdisciplinary S&T topics and actor constellations whereas 1.3. and 1.4 will yield new technologies but also “soft aspects” such as new R&I practices and emerging social needs. The outcome of the horizon scanning will be a rolling list of emerging topics in a wide range of domains which will be fed into the sense making phase (WP2).