The “Horizon Scanning DPP” project is a systematic process of identification, categorization and analysis of information, enabling monitoring and warning of trends, potential paradigm shifts, disruptions and emerging issues. This project aims to be useful for different objectives, applications and users, encouraging them to better anticipate and understand the external environment and how this environment interacts with and influences their policies and strategic decisions.

The overall objective of the "Horizon Scanning DPP" project is to improve DPP’s ability to participate and lead processes based on the anticipation and preparation for new challenges, risks and opportunities.

The project seeks to achieve a set of more specific objectives, of which we stress the following:

• Monitoring of Critical Issues
• Report on emerging issues
• Conduct Benchmarking activities
• Analysis of opportunities and risks for new activities and/or regions
• Technology Monitoring and Foresight
• To foster creativity and be able to capitalize on new ideas
• Accelerate organizational learning and agility
• Foster networking (national and international)

Among the outputs included in the "Horizon Scanning DPP" project, we highlight the following:

• Publication of analysis of trends, uncertainties, weak signals and wildcards (organized by theme or industry)
• Regular publication of a "Horizon Scanning DPP" project newsletter
• Project development in collaboration with other public institutions and / or territorial responsibilities
• Inputs for the organisation of Scenario´s workshops, Trend Analysis, Delphi’s, among others
• Inputs for the production of articles, reports and working papers

The “Project Horizon Scanning DPP” is currently organized around two main areas: DPP Scanning DB and DPP Scanning Docs