07-03-2023 16:00
The future of EU’s Open Strategic Autonomy: Ensuring citizens’ well-being

Open Strategic Autonomy ensures the capacity to cope alone if necessary but without ruling out cooperation whenever possible. It goes some steps further from Smart Supply Chain management by taking into account geopolitics and not only economic factors. It relies on foresight to identify threats and ensures resilience by anticipating the required responses. Systemic thinking and foresight can be instrumental in helping policy makers reinforce their ability to anticipate disruption and normalise situations that would otherwise generate stress. The EU-wide Foresight Network leads the Commission's efforts to embed strategic foresight into its work. Starting on the second half of 2023, the Spanish Presidency of the Council is proposing to pay special attention to foresight and strategic autonomy as key elements for adding resiliency to the EU's long-term objectives of a greener, more digital and social Europe. The Commission and the Council are already involved and the participation of the European Parliament will bring the citizen's perspective to the debate.
Programme
16:00 - 16:10 Welcome and introductory remarks
· Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, MEP and member of the Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA)
16:10 - 16:30 Keynote speech
· Diego RUBIO, Director of the National Office of Foresight & Strategy of the Spanish Government
16:30 - 17:10 Scientific opinions roundtable
Moderator: Lina GÁLVEZ MUÑOZ, MEP and STOA Panel member
· Mikel LANDABASO, Director, Joint Research Centre, Seville
· Alice PANNIER, Research Fellow, Head of Ifri's Geopolitics of Technology Program
· Mario DAMEN, Policy Analyst, Strategic Foresight and Capabilities Unit, DG EPRS
17:10 - 17:50 Q&A session
17:50 - 18:00 Closing remarks
· Christian EHLER, MEP and STOA Chair
The event will be held in English with interpretation into French and Spanish.
- Participants' booklet (PDF - 941 KB)
- Webstreaming
- Interview with speaker Alice Pannier: Technological vulnerabilities that threaten the European Union’s ‘Open Strategic Autonomy’ and the EU’s response
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Further EPRS material related to the event topic:
- EU strategic autonomy 2013-2023: From concept to capacity
- Strengthening EU chip capabilities: How will the chips act reinforce Europe's semiconductor sector by 2030?
- Making solar a source of EU energy security
- Securing the EU's supply of critical raw materials
- Geopolitics of Health
- Presentation Damen (PDF - 478 KB)
- Presentation Landabaso (PDF - 415 KB)
- Poster - image (IMAGE - 214 KB)