Innovations and inspirations of EU strategic foresight methods

In the face of complex and diversified future scenarios, strategic foresight has become a powerful tool to support decision-making. Through in-depth study of EU strategic foresight research results, this paper summarizes the EU's innovative practices in strategic foresight, and elaborates in detail on the strategic foresight methodology system of the EU, with horizon scan, megatrends hub, and scenario exploration system as its backbone tools, as well as its optimization design in specific methods and processes. Combined with the future-oriented development trend of strategic research methodology and the EU's innovative practice in strategic foresight methodology, furthermore, it provides a summary of the development characteristics and advantages of the EU's strategic foresight research methodology trends and directions, with a goal of providing inspiration for China's scientific and technological strategic research, policy research tools and methodological.