PROFUTURES - THE BIRTH OF THE STRATEGIC PROSPECTIVE AND FUTURES STUDIES INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR APPLIED METHODOLOGY

On 30 September and 1 October 1993, the European Commission's Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (PROMPT) organized a meeting, in collaboration with LIPS-CNAM (the Laboratory for Investigation in Prospective and Strategy of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers in Paris), on the theme: 'Methods and tools in strategic prospective: retrospective and perspectives'. The main outcome of this meeting, which brought together 23 international experts from the strategic prospective-futures studies field at the Ispra campus of the EC's Joint Research Centre, was the creation of a new network, devoted to applied methodology, to be known as Profutures.