The projects of the inter-university research platform Zukunft – Technik – Gesellschaft (Z-T-G) are based on a mix of different methods, whereby the focus is always on an innovative and profitable combination of methods from each discipline with techniques established within futures studies. In addition to classic methods of empirical social research, such as the interview, the expert interview, the focus group or the group interview, the researchers at Z-T-G also have experience with the methods and techniques described below: