Social Transformations and Resilience - Foresight Platform

Defining Needs for the Future – Shaping the Research and Innovation Agenda Together

How can we address climate change, demographic shifts, the green and digital transitions and unforeseeable events while building resilient, democratic, inclusive, and fair societies?

This platform will connect researchers and stakeholders and help prepare a transformative research and innovation programme.

This platform connects researchers and stakeholders working towards a sustainable and inclusive future: Researchers, research funders, policymakers, social partners, and civil society. In 2026/27, a new

-> European Partnership on Social Transformations and Resilience

will bring actors from all these groups together to advance impact-driven research.

Together, we’ll focus on four areas to build resilience: Social protection systems, the future of work, education and skills, and a fair transition towards climate neutrality. This collaboration will create a transformative research programme that bridges social sciences and humanities to generate impactful solutions. You want to know more? Read the draft proposal for this Partnership!

We aim to identify emerging needs,co-create knowledge, and find new perspectives. The Social Transformation & Resilience Partnership will be an initiative for 7 to 10 years, guided by a strategic research agenda which this platform will help shape.

Until April 2026, we’ll collaborate to shape the future research agenda - a foundation for a long-term, transformative programme. Let us share information, develop ideas, work together.

Be part of the conversation! Share your expertise, stay informed, and contribute to shaping the research & innovation agenda.

DLR Projektträger is commissioned by HERA Humanities in the European Research Area to conduct foresight exercises to lay the groundwork for the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda for the European Partnership on Social Transformations and Resilience. This European Partnership is under construction by a Drafting Group of interested European ministries, funders and the European Commission.

The future Partnership will be coordinated by NCN - National Science Centre, Poland. NCN provides further information on the Partnership via the CHANSE website. While this STR Foresight Platform builds a community of researchers and societal actors to co-create a strategic research agenda, NCN takes care of the process of building a consortium of funding organisations and public authorities: two websites which complement each other. Two pieces of one puzzle!