The FLAGSHIP Storylines Sample Clauses

The FLAGSHIP Storylines. XXXX coordinated the work for the elaboration of the scenarios blueprint. The blueprint - released in several versions throughout the project duration – accompanied the research and future scenario building and assessment exercises undertaken to address the grand societal challenges ahead of us in several fields: economy and innovation, demography and education, energy, climate change and the environment, global governance and territorial governance in the European Union. The FLAGSHIP approach combined quantitative analysis based on a set of models with the elaboration of qualitative storylines of possible futures. A meta-modelling approach was also used to bridge the quantitative and qualitative counterparts of the scenario building exercise. Two future outcomes are explored in FLAGSHIP, and storylines developed to illustrate how the future will unfold according to two perspectives:  Global perseverance with neo-liberal economic growth paradigm This is the currently mainstream vision assuming: i) the continuation of current global growth-driven trends and policy reforms, and ii) the effects of a perpetuation of the European Union 2020 strategy for smart, inclusive and sustainable growth after the 2020 horizon.  Global metamorphosis to a sustainable progress paradigm. This is a vision assuming a more radical paradigm shift of the global economy towards sustainability. The shift is achieved thanks to breakthrough improvements of resource efficiency and reduced per capita energy and materials consumption, extensive behavioral change and the rise of non- market and social forms of economy. The latter will contribute to reduce inequalities and achieve prosperity, beyond the benefits that the slow GDP growth may deliver. This scenario considers also a new European governance setting and policy strategy after 2020. The attribute “global” used for both storylines is intended to emphasize that the perspective of the FLAGSHIP global storylines is the whole world,. It is important to underline the “additive” rather than “contrasted” character of the two storylines, at least in terms of the fit to sustainability goals that both scenarios aim to deliver. They are both positive scenarios, achieving better future outcomes in terms of economic, environmental and social sustainability for the European Union and the world. But the second – global metamorphosis – is meant to add in the picture new features and opportunities that will allow to achieve a better sustainabili...