While Slovakia has made many progressive environmental improvements by introducing new measures and approaches, many of the key identified challenges and threats linked to our production and consumption patterns must be more adequately addressed. Here, the ‘Pilot Scenáre 2020’ study is the first complex experiment to apply quantitative and qualitative approaches and participatory methods. Three short-term scenarios have been developed to identify the trends, weak signals and possible “wild cards”. In addition, further 2019 implementation with the full use of a participatory approach is planned for the preparation of Slovakia’s nature until 2030; and this has ultimate vision until 2050.