Results Webinar IV: Digitalisation & resilience (Fictions & SCRL Labs)
The FutuResilience project funded ten labs that bring together multiple stakeholders to co-create evidence-informed policies aimed at strengthening societal resilience against various crises. Emphasising knowledge valorisation for policy uptake, the labs served as experimental spaces for policy testing, using a diverse range of approaches and tools with a strong focus on future-oriented thinking.
Over approximately 15 months, each lab began by defining concrete challenges, mapping key stakeholders, and exploring how these challenges might evolve over time by developing different scenarios. With a focus on enhancing societal preparedness, the labs’ stakeholders collaborated to design evidence-based policy actions capable of addressing the initial challenges across multiple plausible future scenarios.
This webinar series marks a key milestone and an opportunity to showcase the process and insights gained from the different labs, highlighting their results, methodologies, outputs, and key lessons learnt. In particular, this webinar will focus on two labs, FICTIONS & SCRL, which approach different aspects of digitalisation: labour market shocks and cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the private sector, delivering innovative solutions to enhance Europe's resilience in the face of future crises.
The FICTIONS Lab, based in northern Portugal, focuses on tackling technological disruptions and skills gaps in the manufacturing sector—one of the most affected by labour shortages. Through an innovative, human-centered approach that combines lead user engagement, experimental training, and speculative design, the lab empowers industrial workers to co-create future visions for digital technologies. This participatory methodology not only strengthens workers' resilience but also informs policy development by producing artifacts that visualize how digital transformations can benefit both employees and employers. The FICTIONS Lab’s approach is scalable to other economic sectors, offering a replicable model for fostering labour market resilience.
The Slovenian Cyber Resilience Lab (SCRL) addresses the growing cybersecurity threats faced by start-ups and smaller R&D organizations. Acting as a regional support center, the lab contributed to raise cybersecurity awareness, providing tailored training, and connecting actors across operational and strategic levels—from start-up employees to national decision-makers. The lab has identified gaps in how start-ups respond to cyber threats and developed flexible policy recommendations to address future cybersecurity challenges. By bridging the gap between the start-up community and cybersecurity governance, SCRL provided innovative policy solutions to safeguard against emerging digital vulnerabilities.
Preliminary Agenda
- Welcome and introduction: Gianfranco Franz, UNIFE
- FICTIONS Lab "Addressing skills gaps to mitigate labour market shocks", Ana Correia de Barros, Fraunhofer AICOS Portugal
- SCRL Lab "Supporting start-up tech community on cybersecurity", Luka Jelovcan, SGB Security Consulting
- Moderated Discussion, Martin Kruse, Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
- Q&A Session, Caterina Rondoni, UNIFE
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