Cooperation between e-IRG and ERA- NET ForSociety
Cooperation between e-IRG and ERA- NET ForSociety
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<strong>Cooperation</strong> <strong>between</strong> e-<strong>IRG</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>ERA</strong>-<br />
<strong>NET</strong> <strong>ForSociety</strong><br />
5 th e<strong>IRG</strong> meeting<br />
December, 13 th 2004<br />
Xenophon Tsilimparis, Katerina Papakonstantinou, Fotis Karayannis<br />
GR<strong>NET</strong><br />
fkara@grnet.gr, http://www.grnet.gr<br />
London - UK, December 13th, 2005
The <strong>ERA</strong>-<strong>NET</strong> <strong>ForSociety</strong> project<br />
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<strong>ForSociety</strong>: a network of 16 countries across Europe<br />
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Doing R&D or Innovation national agencies co-ordinate their “technology foresight”<br />
programmes<br />
http://www.eranet-forsociety.net/<strong>ForSociety</strong><br />
Project funded by DG Research in the framework of the <strong>ERA</strong>-<strong>NET</strong> scheme:<br />
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Coordination of national R&D programmes with ultimate objective the design <strong>and</strong><br />
implementation of joint trans-national R&D programmes<br />
“Foresight” aims at identifying possible technological futures <strong>and</strong> defining<br />
strategies to achieve them<br />
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http://www.cordis.lu/foresight/definition.htm<br />
Similar to the e-<strong>IRG</strong> 20 year roadmaps<br />
London, UK, December 13th, 2005<br />
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The <strong>ERA</strong><strong>NET</strong>-<strong>ForSociety</strong> network<br />
Coordinator: General Secretariat<br />
for Research <strong>and</strong> Technology<br />
(GSRT) - Greece<br />
GSRT, MES, TC AS CR,<br />
METLTM/DRAST, MTI FINLAND,<br />
BMBF, VTU, NKTH, MCST, RCN<br />
, MINOCRW/COS, AR,<br />
VINNOVA, TUBITAK, DTI (OST),<br />
GR<strong>NET</strong>, IFOK, DBT, MR SDIDT<br />
London, UK, December 13th, 2005<br />
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<strong>ForSociety</strong> objectives -<br />
Proposal on ICT <strong>and</strong> e-Infrastructures<br />
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Main objective to conduct “Trans-national Future Dialogues”<br />
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Future Dialogues have diverse themes proposed by the members : From energy to nutrition..<br />
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For the next period GR<strong>NET</strong> proposed the theme of “e-Infrastructures towards Innovation”<br />
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Document existing national scenarios/visions for e-Infrastructures<br />
3 workshops anticipated (from Feb 2006 to Fall 2006) with the participation of :<br />
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foresight experts from different EU countries having worked on the national, regional or<br />
corporative level of foresight in ICT<br />
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e-Infrastructures experts from different EU countries working in the public or private area<br />
with a strong future oriented perspective (possibly involved within e-<strong>IRG</strong>)<br />
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policy makers of public or private bodies from different EU countries dealing with the setup,<br />
management <strong>and</strong> implementation of foresight processes.<br />
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e-Infrastructure Foresight example dialogue<br />
issues<br />
How can e-infrastructures drive the cross border development of hybrid technologies such as bio-informatics,<br />
nanotechnologies, earth observation, precision farming, etc<br />
How multidisciplinary requirements could be best met through translational co-operation enabled by e-infrastructures<br />
What are the visions/scenarios behind the national ongoing or planned activities<br />
What are the central visions <strong>and</strong> scenarios to be explored in a future translational foresight exercise<br />
What are the systemic <strong>and</strong> institutional changes needed to take effect in order to bring e-infrastructures closer to national<br />
<strong>and</strong> European wide innovation systems<br />
What are the national research <strong>and</strong> innovation policy implications towards serving scientific multidisciplinarity through e-<br />
infrastructures<br />
How further expansion of broadb<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> optical networking to companies, governments, institutes <strong>and</strong> organisations<br />
could forge a relationship <strong>between</strong> e-Infrastructure <strong>and</strong> innovation on the long term<br />
How the grater economic <strong>and</strong> social context surrounding scientific exploration will affect the development of e-science<br />
<strong>and</strong> change the way we do science <strong>and</strong> innovation in general<br />
What is the impact of e-infrastructures on the organisation <strong>and</strong> functioning of science<br />
London, UK, December 13th, 2005<br />
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e-<strong>IRG</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>ForSociety</strong> complementarities -<br />
Possible cooperation with the e-<strong>IRG</strong><br />
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Forsociety foresight studies are similar to the long-term e-<strong>IRG</strong><br />
roadmaps<br />
e-<strong>IRG</strong> roadmaps focus on consulting the EC to future directions<br />
Foresight focuses on stimulating synergies <strong>between</strong> national<br />
authorities into transnational programmes<br />
Possible cooperation:<br />
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e-<strong>IRG</strong> experts participate in the Foresight workshops<br />
Joint e-<strong>IRG</strong> – Foresight workshops during Austrian presidency<br />
e-<strong>IRG</strong> officially comments the Foresight documents<br />
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Thanks!<br />
mailto:xtsili@grnet.gr, papak@grnet.gr, fkara@grnet.gr<br />
The <strong>ForSociety</strong> project<br />
http://www.eranet-forsociety.net/<strong>ForSociety</strong><br />
Foresight definition<br />
http://www.cordis.lu/foresight/definition.htm<br />
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