D. Bain et F. Roubelat, PROFUTURES - THE BIRTH OF THE STRATEGIC PROSPECTIVE AND FUTURES STUDIES INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR APPLIED METHODOLOGY, Futures, 26(3), 1994, pp. 345-349
On 30 September and 1 October 1993, the European Commission's Institut
e for Prospective Technological Studies (PROMPT) organized a meeting,
in collaboration with LIPS-CNAM (the Laboratory for Investigation in P
rospective and Strategy of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Meti
ers in Paris), on the theme: 'Methods and tools in strategic prospecti
ve: retrospective and perspectives'. The main outcome of this meeting,
which brought together 23 international experts from the strategic pr
ospective-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.