Rescue and medical services, disaster relief and foreign aid are also subject to technological and social change. Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe e.V. therefore utilised methods of futurology in order to still be able to offer needs-based services in 2030. The Federal Executive Board commissioned the IZT to conduct a scenario process lasting just under a year. In future workshops and scenario workshops, employees from all areas and hierarchical levels anticipated challenges for their sector and developed creative, visionary responses to them. The result was a positive vision of the future for the entire organisation; in addition, implementation projects were initiated in several key design areas.

Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe e.V. is a large Protestant aid organisation with around 1.5 million supporting members and around 13,000 full-time employees as well as around 30,000 volunteer members (including JUH youth), organised in nine state associations and over 200 local, district and regional associations. In order to continue to offer professional and needs-based assistance in the future and to be able to use donations and economic proceeds efficiently and effectively, JUH wanted to develop plausible and desirable perspectives for future areas of activity and its own organisation. In addition to the JUH strategy process "Securing the future!", which began in 2006, the aim was to prepare and support an updated vision for the future.

For the purposes of this scenario process, the observation horizon of "2030" was deliberately set a little further into the future. This longer time frame was chosen in order to be able to consider major possible changes in the social, technical, economic and ecological framework conditions for the JUH's areas of responsibility.

The focus of the analysis was on the JUH itself, its future fields of activity and possibly also future forms of organisation. Initially, there was no selective focussing on individual current fields of activity: All areas - training, rescue services, medical services, disaster control, social services and foreign aid - were addressed. The project began with a classic future workshop. Subsequently, attractive visions of the future were systematically developed in a normative scenario process and analysed with regard to design options and fields of action.