Archive for the ‘until 2025’ Category
Friday, December 21st, 2012
The project “Quality and Leadership for Romanian Higher Education” (QLHE) aimed to elaborate a vision of Romanian higher education in 2025 and a strategy consisting of specific policy guidelines to achieve it. Based on a large participatory foresight exercise, the project sought to contribute to improving the strategic management of universities and achieving a wide national consensus on the development of the Romanian higher education system.
Download EPF Brief No. 242_Quality and Leadership for Romanian Higher Education.
Posted in Romania, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, until 2025 | Comments Off
Tuesday, December 4th, 2012
STRATCLU, the ‘entrepreneurial’ strategy process of the German ‘spitzen’-cluster (leading-edge cluster) MicroTEC Südwest meets the needs of multi-actor, multi-governance-level and multi-sector research and innovation (R&I) policies. The forwardand outward-looking process exemplifies how a broad range of regional R&I actors can share and utilise strategic knowledge to identify joint priorities for longer-term, synergistic R&I investments and collective actions, and focus their diverse competences in microsystems as a general purpose technology to tackle societal challenges and enter future markets globally.
Download: EFP Brief No. 232_STRATCLU.
Posted in Energy, Environment (including climate change), Germany, Information and communication technologies (ICT), until 2020, until 2025 | Comments Off
Friday, November 23rd, 2012
This was the first time that Taiwan conducted a large-scale expert opinion survey using the Delphi approach. The goal was to identify research topics relevant to shaping the future of agriculture in Taiwan. Applying roadmapping, the project presented policy suggestions at the end of 2011. The suggestions have been incorporated into the Taiwanese govern-ment’s Council of Agriculture (COA) research agenda as evidenced by COA’s call-for-projects announcement.
Download: EFP Brief No. 229_Taiwan Agricultural Technology Foresight 2025.
Posted in Asia, Food, agriculture and fisheries, biotechnology, until 2025 | Comments Off
Tuesday, August 28th, 2012
The Future of Learning (FoL) project aimed to advance the state of the art by developing a range of new and imaginative visions on initial and lifelong learning in Europe by 2025. The foresight project elaborates on six major challenges for future learning. These include multicultural integration, early school leaving, talent development, improving the transition from school to work, re-skilling and re-entry into the labour market. These challenges were elaborated as scenarios and illustrated through six different personas.
EFP Brief No. 222_Future of Learning
Tags: lifelong learning
Posted in brief, EU, FP7 Themes, Geography, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Time Horizon, until 2025 | Comments Off
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
This brief synthesises the findings of forward-looking activities that were recently carried out in different European countries with a focus on research and innovation. In order to structure the activities’ outcomes, a framework is used that distinguishes different types of outcomes. The findings of the activities are then presented along this framework. The last section suggests some conclusions for European-level, challenge-driven research and innovation priority setting. The study was conducted for the expert group Global Europe 2030-2050 http://ec.europa.eu/research/social-sciences/fwl-experts-groups_en.html and financed by the European Commission’s Social Science & Humanities Programme.
EFP Brief No. 211_Towards Transformative Innovation Priorities
Tags: innovation, research
Posted in brief, EU, FP7 Themes, Geography, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Time Horizon, until 2020, until 2025 | Comments Off
Saturday, March 17th, 2012
This methodology brief describes a procedure where we combine scenarios that allow us to anticipate and prepare for multiple futures with the process of roadmapping serving as a systematic decision support tool. This specific foresight exercise, from scenarios to roadmapping, can be conducted as a one to two-day workshop with 20-30 lead engineers or managers to gather information in an organisation.
EFP Brief No. 207_From Scenarios to Roadmapping
Tags: corporate foresight, innovation, roadmap
Posted in brief, Denmark, FP7 Themes, Geography, National, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Time Horizon, until 2025 | Comments Off
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
This activity was conducted as part of the EU FP7 CIVISTI project (Citizen Visions on Science, Technology and Innovation) funded through FP7 under the Social Sciences and Humanities theme. The project aimed to develop and pilot a cost-effective mechanism for involving citizens in the formulation of European science, technology and research policy. A number of new and emerging issues for European S&T were identified, leading to the development of a set of recommendations for future European framework programmes.
EFP Brief No. 204_Civisti
Tags: citizen visions, innovation, participation, science, technology
Posted in brief, EU, FP7 Themes, Geography, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Time Horizon, until 2025 | Comments Off
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
This foresight activity was conducted as part of the EU FP7 SESTI project (Scanning for Emerging Science and Technology Issues) aimed at developing a process that can be used to identify weak signals and emerging issues in a systematic, efficient and effective way. It also pursued the application and implementation of such techniques by contextualizing them and initiating discussions within the policy arena, thus linking them in a meaningful way to existing policy processes. To enhance the quality of the comparison of the different weak signal scanning approaches, the content domain was limited to signals that are precursors to changes in the research and innovation system. This policy brief reports on the approach and findings of the SESTI project on the health theme.
EFP Brief No. 198_Weak Signals Health
Tags: emerging issues, weak signals
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Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Our study intends to present disruptive and challenging events, i.e. wildcard scenarios, with a significant impact on the aviation industry. We aim to assist decision and policy makers in preparing for the future and enrich decision making processes on possible courses of action by presenting a robust and reliable decision support system and creating awareness for opportunities in strategy and policy. We demonstrate how a Delphi survey (in our case a real-time variant) can be applied as a starting point to systematically develop wildcard scenarios by conducting a deductive wildcard analysis.
EFP Brief No. 192_Future of Aviation
Tags: economy, environment, socio-culture, technology
Posted in brief, Geography, Germany, National, Time Horizon, until 2025 | Comments Off
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
We present insights into the design and execution of an international large-scale project on the future of logistics by the year 2025. The basis of our research was an innovative real-time Delphi application. We applied a multi-methodology framework including a real-time Delphi, a futures conference and participatory expert workshops. This allowed for cross-validation and a strong participatory inclusion of policy makers. An example shows how a multi-stakeholder environment can be approached using innovative foresight tools. We illustrate a research case study that aligns foresight activities with a rigorous scientific procedure.
EFP Brief No. 188_Improving Foresight through Methodological Innovation
Tags: logistics, transport
Posted in brief, Geography, Global, Time Horizon, until 2025 | Comments Off
