2030
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Heatwaves and public health in Europe: the WHO response in the summer of 2026
In the summer of 2026 the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region faced prolonged and closely spaced heatwaves. Between late June and early July the WHO Regional Office for Europe (WHO/Europe) issued two official statements and convened an emergency meeting among Member States. This factsheet gathers the data and measures made public on those occasions.…
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Fewer than five years to 2030: the UN Sustainable Development Goals Report 2026
The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2026, presented at the United Nations High-level Political Forum (7 to 15 July 2026), measures progress and shortfalls of the 2030 Agenda with fewer than five years to the deadline.
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Beyond artificial intelligence: emerging technologies towards 2030
Public attention on innovation often settles on a single field, yet the landscape of emerging technologies is broader. This contribution offers a neutral overview of several sectors and of the European policies that accompany them towards 2030. Quantum computing and the Quantum Europe Strategy Quantum computing draws on the properties of quantum mechanics to process…
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Cities that breathe: rethinking the urban spaces of tomorrow
Air quality, the availability of green areas and the way daily journeys are organised have become fixed items on the European urban policy agenda. International documents, new rules and pilot schemes of recent years point towards a rethinking of the places where most of the population lives. This piece gathers the main reference points, without…
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Imagining 2030: strategic foresight as a tool of government
Strategic foresight refers to the set of methods that public administrations use to examine, in a structured way, the possible long-term developments of a given field. This piece outlines its definition, its main instruments and its limits, with reference to the practices adopted by the institutions of the European Union with a view to 2030…
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Work in 2030: skills that do not yet exist
Several international reports estimate that, by the end of the decade, a substantial share of the professional abilities in demand will differ from those required today. Analyses carried out by global and European bodies agree in identifying continuous training as a stable feature of the labour market. The text below gathers the available estimates together…
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Who decides how a machine thinks? The ethics and accountability of AI
Every artificial intelligence (AI) system produces its results on the basis of criteria established by human beings. This piece traces who defines those parameters, which rules and technical standards govern them, and how adherence to them can be checked. The human responsibility behind automated decisions An AI system does not “think” in the way a…