In recent years, citizen involvement has been increasingly recognised as a source of complementary insights to expert-based foresight. This article analyses citizen visions on desirable and sustainable futures gathered in three recent European involvement projects and reviews how the methodology of topic modelling can be applied to identify commonalities in the visions and how the identified topics are distributed across the citizen involvement projects. A common topic addressing a European citizen desire for wide-ranging societal development with an emphasis on education was identified in the modelling. In addition, three specific topics that correspond to the foci of each involvement project were evident: ‘local production’, ‘cultural variety’ and ‘concerned collectives’. Hence, the results indicate that there are further opportunities for further citizen involvement activities and that specifically focused open-ended envisioning events can contribute to unique sets of citizen-induced topics for the future. These results are particularly useful for the institutionalisation of citizen involvement in foresight studies.

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公民对欧洲期货的看法-方法论上的考虑和启示

近年来，公民参与已被越来越多地视为基于专家的远见的补充见解的来源。本文分析了最近在三个欧洲参与项目中收集到的公民对理想和可持续未来的看法，并回顾了主题建模的方法如何可用于确定愿景中的共性，以及如何将识别出的主题分布在整个公民参与项目中。在模型中确定了一个共同的主题，该主题涉及欧洲公民对广泛社会发展的渴望，并着重于教育。此外，与每个参与项目的重点相对应的三个特定主题也很明显：“本地生产”，“文化多样性”和“相关集体”。因此，结果表明，进一步的公民参与活动还有进一步的机会，特别针对性的开放性设想活动可以为将来的公民引发的独特主题做出贡献。这些结果对于公民参与远见研究的制度化特别有用。