Posts Tagged ‘health care’
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
This exercise was part of an EU FP7 Blue Skies Project aimed at piloting, developing and testing in real situations a foresight methodology designed to bring together key stakeholders to explore the longer term challenges that face their sector (or cut across sectors) and to build a shared vision that could guide the development of the relevant European research agenda. This approach was applied to the first theme selected, namely “Application of Breakthrough Technologies to Adaptation to Climate Change in Agriculture”. This met the criteria for a sectorally driven topic, was research-driven and involved a clear and vital European policy challenge. Moreover, from an early stage, there was strong stakeholder engagement from the Standing Committee on Agricultural Research and the Directorate-General for Research in Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries, Aquaculture.
EFP Brief No. 176_Foresighting the AgriClimate Ecology
Tags: climate change, ecology, global temperatures, greenhouse gas, health care, ICT, technology, traditional knowledge, water
Posted in brief, Energy, Environment (including climate change), EU, Food, agriculture and fisheries, biotechnology, Global, Health, until 2050 | Comments Off
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
In September 2007, the Federal German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) launched a foresight process in order to sustain Germany’s status as a research and education location. The BMBF Foresight Process aimed at 1) identifying new focuses in research and technology, 2) designating areas for cross-cutting activities, 3) exploring fields for strategic partnerships, and 4) deriving priorities for R&D policy.
EFP Brief No. 174_German BMBF Foresight
Tags: energy solutions, environmental sustainability, health care
Posted in brief, Energy, Food, agriculture and fisheries, biotechnology, Germany, Health, Information and communication technologies (ICT), Nanosciences, nanotechnology, materials, new production technologies, Transport (including aeronautics), until 2010 | Comments Off
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
Many experts think that the technological convergence of previously separated sciences like nanotechnology, biotechnology, information and communication technologies and cognitive sciences will have a deep, long-term impact on society and economy. Key actors in society need to become aware of the challenges linked to converging applications (CA) and take decisions in support of developing them. By analysing CA-related opportunities and risks at a very early stage, we hope to contribute to reducing possible adverse effects in the future.
EFMN Brief No. 152_ICT and Cognitive Science
Tags: artificial intelligence, biology, building (housing), cognition, cognitive science, converging technologies, entertainment, health care, housing, medicine, privacy, roadmap, safety, sensors, services, SME, software
Posted in brief, Environment (including climate change), EU, Food, agriculture and fisheries, biotechnology, FP7 Themes, Geography, Health, Information and communication technologies (ICT), Nanosciences, nanotechnology, materials, new production technologies, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Time Horizon, until 2015 | Comments Off
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
Following the submission of an initial report in July 2005 on the evolution of illness related to old age and estimations of the number of accommodations available for the dependent elderly, the French minister in charge of elderly affairs asked the Strategic Analysis Centre to further consider how to provide and finance the care of dependent persons until 2025. Relying on a single quantitative scenario, the report proposes a global strategy turning on several key principles: a preference for in-home care and supplying treatment in a welcoming environment, reliance on technological and social innovation, the qualitative improvement of establishments housing the most dependent persons and the use of new regulatory tools in order to promote performance and a better territorial distribution.
EFMN Brief No. 139_ Elderly Care in France
Tags: building (housing), care facilities, cities, demography, health care, housing, human resources, jobs, services, universities
Posted in brief, FP7 Themes, France, Geography, Health, National, Security, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Time Horizon, until 2025 | Comments Off
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
This brief presents an overview of major trends and policy options for rural areas. A number of social, technological, economic, environmental and political trends as well as strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats will be highlighted, followed by ten major policy options in view of two traditional and conflicting objectives: rural socio-economic development and countryside protection.
EFMN Brief No. 129_Rural_Areas
Tags: building (housing), cities, climate, construction, defense, developing countries, education, electricity, enlargement (EU), entrepreneurs, farming, financial services, health care, housing, human resources, hydrogen, jobs, knowledge society, manufacturing, marine, migration, natural resources, regional development, rural areas, services, SME, SWOT, tourism, universities, water, youth
Posted in brief, Energy, Environment (including climate change), EU, Food, agriculture and fisheries, biotechnology, FP7 Themes, Geography, Health, Information and communication technologies (ICT), Regional, Security, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Time Horizon, Transport (including aeronautics) | Comments Off
Friday, May 20th, 2011
Modern materials sciences take as their objective to develop and tailor materials with a desired set of properties suitable for a given application. Next to conventional approaches, predictive modelling and simulation is more and more used. This results into a rapidly increasing knowledge base, allowing for more precise experimental set-ups, more precise simulations and tailoring of goal-oriented materials. They play a key role in the value chain and in product innovation. Although limited profits are made from materials, materials are technology enablers for new high added value products and therefore a key in innovation acceleration. More success and increased opportunities for applications is the outcome. The SMART project aimed at providing support for future strategic decisions in this sector to foster the strengthening of the European Research Area.
EFMN Brief No. 115 – SMART materials
Tags: automotive, chemistry, construction, cultural heritage, defense, electronics, gas, health care, housing, life science, manufacturing, mobility, polymers, safety, sensor technologies, sensors, solar cells, terrorism, textiles
Posted in brief, Energy, EU, FP7 Themes, Geography, Health, Information and communication technologies (ICT), Nanosciences, nanotechnology, materials, new production technologies, Security, Time Horizon, until 2015 | Comments Off
Friday, May 20th, 2011
In FAZIT (research project for current and future-oriented information and media technology and its use in Baden-Württemberg), present and future demand and applications for innovative information, communication and media technologies are being explored. The objective is to identify key drivers for new markets and innovations in the ICT sector in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, which are important for further regional development. The different activities are intended to bring together actors in a regional innovation sys-tem, both from the ICT sector and traditional industries. A final roadmap for “new markets in the ICT sector in Baden-Württemberg” is intended to integrate the milestones, which can be strategically used by State decision-makers.
EFMN Brief No. 113 – FAZIT Baden Wuerttemberg
Tags: building (housing), demographic change, education, health care, IST, IT, media, regional development, roadmap, sensors, services, social science, software
Posted in brief, FP7 Themes, Geography, Germany, Health, Information and communication technologies (ICT), Regional, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Time Horizon, until 2020 | Comments Off
Friday, May 20th, 2011
The report “Horizon 2020 – A thought-provoking look at the future” is a dialogue invitation rather than an attempt to provide another “traditional” strategic scenario very often aiming to lay out a roadmap for a predetermined outcome. The report in question differs from this approach in three respects. First, it aims at creating a basis for dialogue with the public at large. Second, it addresses a broad range of topics covering political, social, economical, environmental and technological issues. Third, the report offers two scenarios on the basis of an expert survey.
EFMN Brief No. 111 – Horizons 2020
Tags: corporate, demography, education, health care, lifelong learning, roadmap, services, social change, sustainability, terrorism
Posted in brief, Environment (including climate change), FP7 Themes, Geography, Germany, Health, Nanosciences, nanotechnology, materials, new production technologies, National, Security, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Time Horizon, until 2020 | Comments Off
Friday, May 20th, 2011
Europe is currently facing the challenge of a highly dynamic and fluid policy context. It is confronted with a seemingly accelerating pace of change, both internally and externally. Internally, a culturally diverse, ageing and risk-averse population, a mix of high tech and declining industries and growing environmental and security concerns require governments to design new frameworks for re-search and innovation. Externally, this policy context is influenced by and influences the emergence of key technologies. The speed and the magnitude of their disruptive impact on the economy and society in turn depend on and are embedded in a wide range of socio-cultural factors.
This challenge calls for a substantial leap forward in thinking and mindsets, by moving from incrementally improving on business-as-usual approaches to exploring new paradigms and alternative futures. A redefinition of the “European model” is called for, capturing the minds and spirits, and bringing together the inherent collective strengths of the EU and its 27 member states. It should comprise a combination of strategic responses addressing short to medium and long-term research policy agendas. For this purpose, a Key Tech-nologies High Level Group composed of experts in 15 key technology areas, and led by a chairperson and a rapporteur, was set up by the K2 Unit of Directorate-General Research, to “assess the potential and the emerging scientific and technological research topics in fifteen specific areas, their impact on EU competitiveness and societal fabric, and the potential response of EU and its Member States”.[1]
EFMN Brief No. 102 – Creative System Disruption
Tags: consumption, converging technologies, corporate, environmental technologies, health care, manufacturing, services, social science, universities
Posted in brief, Energy, EU, Food, agriculture and fisheries, biotechnology, FP7 Themes, Geography, Health, Nanosciences, nanotechnology, materials, new production technologies, Security, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Time Horizon, Transport (including aeronautics) | Comments Off
Friday, May 20th, 2011
In the context of the Lisbon strategy and the Barcelona targets, the Luxembourg government intends to increase the level of public spending n R&D from about 50M€ in 2005 to 220 M€ by 2009 and to concentrate the budget increase on a limited number of promising re-search areas on the basis of clearly stated strategic and operational objectives. The purpose of the first national foresight in Luxembourg, conducted in 2006-2007, was to inform policy-makers and provide direction for the definition of these national research priorities.
EFMN Brief No. 99 – Luxemburg
Tags: automotive, banking, climate, consumption, e-government, education, financial services, health care, human resources, life style, media, medicine, migration, mobility, natural resources, nutrition, polymers, sensors, services, sustainability, water
Posted in brief, Energy, Environment (including climate change), Food, agriculture and fisheries, biotechnology, FP7 Themes, Geography, Health, Information and communication technologies (ICT), Luxembourg, Nanosciences, nanotechnology, materials, new production technologies, National, Security, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Time Horizon, Transport (including aeronautics), until 2015 | Comments Off
