Deliverable 1.2: Collection of national reports on the citizens' future visions

This deliverable presents the 30 national reports on the citizens’ future visions from the National Citizen Vision Workshops (NCVs), held as a part of the CIMULACT project.

The main objective of CIMULACT is to add to the relevance and accountability of the European Research & Innovation (R&I) agenda by engaging citizens and multi-actors in the actual formulation of the European Union’s R&I agenda. The NCVs contributed to this process by engaging citizens in formulating their visions for a desirable and sustainable future.

Over a three month period (November 2015 until January 2016) 30 NCVs were held in 30 European countries (28 EU member states, as well as Switzerland and Norway).  At each NCV citizens met for a full day to formulate and debate their visions for desirable and sustainable futures. All together 179 visions were formulated during the NCVs by more than 1000 citizens.

The national reports on the citizens’ future visions each includes a summary of the NCV process and presents the original and unedited visions (raw visions and six[1] final visions) for each country. In addition, all reports include information on participant data. The summaries and the final visions are to be found in the national language and translated into English.

The national reports on the citizens’ future visions offer a unique opportunity to identify the European citizens’ wishes, needs and demands for a sustainable and desirable future.  The reports may inspire and give input to experts, policy- and decision makers all over Europe, hereby enhancing Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in the European Union.

In the following, we introduce the necessary background information on how to read the national reports and interpret the visions. In addition we give a resume of the methodology and the NCV process. A deeper analysis of the results is to be found in Deliverable 1.3 –Vision Catalogue and Devliverable 2.1 –First draft of the societal needs research programme scenarios.  

CIMULACT is a three-year project funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Program of the European Union. The project began in June 2015.

[1] Ireland is an exception, since this country only formulated 5 visions.