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

Workshops STOA
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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.