The present document reports the findings of the workshop on scanning emerging issues in and relevant for Health science and technology with potentially high impact on policymaking in Europe, which took place in Brussels on the 30th November 2010 as part of the SESTI project activities. The workshop participants consisted of experts in health issues, foresight researchers and European policy‐makers. Different DG’s of the European Commission were represented, in particular DG JRC and DG RTD. In the workshop the discussions circled around scanning emerging issues in and relevant for Energy science and technology with potentially high impact on policy‐making in Europe.
Taking health as the example area, the objective of the workshop was to better understand what the needs of the policymaker are in order to make the decision to take up the emerging issue within the mainstream discussion in their community. By discussing the case issue of health, feedback was also sought on how to organize future workshops around new topics and develop briefs around new emerging issues. The workshop was envisaged to provide in depth information about what the needs of the users are in relation to the SESTI deliverables as well as the applied identification and selection process of early warning signals, and the processing procedures.
