Partners

Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research TNO (NL) (Coordinator)

Swedish Defence Research Agency FOI (SE)

FOI is a mainly assignment-funded agency under the Ministry of Defence. The core activities are research, method and technology development, as well as studies conducted in the interests of Swedish defence and the safety and security of society. The Defence Analysis division researches and works in areas such as security policy, civil and military crisis management, command systems and defence economy. It develops methods for the conduct of studies in the fields of security, defence, infrastructure and the environment. The division provides its customers with factual data and methods for studies and reports covering a wide range of subjects. Its ability to bring together expertise in technical matters, natural science and social science helps to ensure that questions are considered from a range of different perspectives.

One of the Division’s special competencies is strategic decision support modelling with computer aided morphological analysis (MA), in which FOI is world leading. MA is a method for structuring and investigating the total set of relationships contained in multi-dimensional, non-quantifiable, problem complexes. Developed by Dr. Tom Ritchey in the mid-1990’s, it has been successfully employed in more than 50 client-based projects, for structuring complex policy and planning issues, developing scenario and strategy laboratories, and analyzing organizational and stakeholder structures. The method has wide applications and is ideal for modelling complex societal problem areas which contain many disparate dimensions (organizational, social, political, psychological, ethical, etc.), but which nonetheless must be treated holistically.

The government of Singapore is presently developing a system for Risk Analysis and Horizon Scanning (RAHS) incorporating computer-aided morphological analysis originally developed by FOI in Sweden. FOI is presently cooperating with the systems concept developer, the Arlington Institute.

University of Kent (UK)

Sogeti Europe (FR)

TEMIS SA (FR)

European Commission – Joint Research Centre, Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IT)

Sigmund Freud Private University, CEUSS | Center for European Security Studies (AT)

The Netherlands Institute for Social Research/SCP (NL)

VLC Projects (NL)