The foresight study FESTOS concentrates on a specific aspect/category of new and emerging threats: future security threats posed by emerging technologies and emerging areas of applied research, including threats from terrorism or organised crime (potential abuse of new technologies) and security/safety hazards through inadequate use.
The main goal of the study is to identify and assess these potentially evolving threats and to propose policy guidelines to be undertaken in order to reduce as much as possible their likelihood of realisation.
The co-ordinator of the project is Interdisciplinary Center for Technology Analysis and Forecasting (Tel-Aviv University, ICTAF). Other partners: Foundation for European Scientific Cooperation, FEWN (Poland), EFP Consulting, EFPC (UK) and Technical University of Berlin, TUB (Germany).
The project is funded by the European Union during 1.9.2008-28.2.2011.
Further information:
Burkhard Auffermann, Senior Researcher
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Rauno Kuusisto, Senior Researcher
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Jari Kaivo-oja, Research Director
jari.kaivo-oja(a)tse.fi
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