With the availability of new technological means, foresight has experienced a resurge in popularity in recent years. The majority of Western countries have used foresight in one way or another to positively affect the medium to long-term future.

We see foresight - due to its participatory nature - both as a networking tool and as a policy-making tool that, if well-designed, allows to collectively gather insightful intelligence on future developments. This in turn allows to make better-informed decisions today.

We apply foresight methods predominantly in research cooperation projects. Policy and regulations to foster research cooperation are usually not well aligned between countries. An adequate foresight process involving major stakeholder groups, e.g. policy-makers, scientists, industry, or civil society, helps identifying the barriers to and catalysts of international scientific collaboration. Recommendations help decision-makers to ascertain the challenges and their possible solutions.

Some of ZSI's foresight endeavours focus(ed) on

• improving future RTDI governance and priority-setting,
• future EU-India S&T collaboration,
• ICT RTDI policy reform in South East Europe, or
• sustainable science collaboration programme between the EU and Russia.

References / Contracting authorities:

European Commission (Forward Visions on the European Research Area, ERA-Net New Indigo, Linking Russia to the ERA, TEL-Map)

European Regional Development Fund (Regional ICT Foresight exercise for Southeast European countries)

Ansprechperson: DI Dietmar Lampert

Relevante Artikel:

Projekte

• National Strategies and roadmaps for international cooperation in Research & Innovation
• Digitalisierung – Industrie 4.0 – Arbeit 4.0 – Gender 4.0
• Bioökonomie Dialogforen
• Open Digital Science
• ERA.Net RUS Plus
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• Connecting Socio-Economic Research on the Dynamics of the Knowledge Society
• FORSEE
• Evaluation of the project CIVISTI "Citizen visions on science, technology and innovation"
• Forward Visions on the European Research Area

Publikationen

• Offene Wissenschaft braucht offene Infrastrukturen
• Foresight für internationale Wissenschaftspolitik
• Evaluating foresight in transnational research programming
• Fostering Impact and Sustainable Collaboration in FP9 within a new Common Research, Technology and Innovation Policy
• ERA Fabric Map. Second Edition
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• FTA supporting effective priority setting in multi-lateral research programme cooperation: The case of EU–Russia S&T cooperation
• ERA Fabric Map. Third Edition
• Overview of EU-Russia R&D and innovation cooperation
• Foresight in Russia and for its cooperation with the EU
• Foresight for EU-Russia S&T and Innovation Cooperation
• Overview of EU-Russia R&D and Innovation Cooperation: ERA.NET RUS Scenario Validation. Foresight Background Paper
• ERA.Net RUS foresight report
• Evaluating foresight in transnational research programming
• S&T Cooperation Foresight Europe – Southeast Asia
• Scientific cooperation between Southeast Asia and Europe in 2020. Driving factors as assessed by scientists and policy-makers
• Towards Professionalising ‘International S&T Cooperation Foresight’: Epistemological and Methodological Challenges and How to Overcome Them
• Lessons Learnt from Past Foresight Exercises – A Good Practice Guide
• White Paper on Citizen Science for Europe
• Facilitating EU-Russian Scientific and Societal Engagement: Joint Efforts to Tackle Grand Challenges
• Participation of the «New» EU Member States in the European Research Programmes — A Long Way to Go
• Towards a vision for research, technology and innovation cooperation between Russia and the EU, its Member States and Associated Countries
• Spotlight on: Science and Technology Cooperation Between Southeast Asia and Europe

Veranstaltungen

• BILAT USA 4.0 Citizen Science Workshop 2018
• VERA: Forward Visions on the European Research Area
• FORSEE Final Conference and Brokerage

News

• International cooperation for tackling global biosphere and social challenges
• Outline of the Mutual Learning Exercise about RTI internationalisation
• Foresight für internationale Wissenschaftspolitik
• Über die Mission, die Welt zu ändern
• Case Management: Integrierte Versorgung für Menschen mit seltenen Krankheiten
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• PSF Mutual Learning Exercise on Open Science - Altmetrics and Rewards
• Call for papers for the Austrian SSH EU Council Presidency conference published!
• Impact of R&I Policy-Conference: Call for Extended Abstracts published
• Synthesebericht der Bioökonomie Dialogforen veröffentlicht
• Thesis Paper for FP9 published in Austria
• BM Johanna Wanka diskutiert mit Josef Hochgerner über soziale Innovation
• Learn more about Science and Innovation in Ukraine
• Call for extended abstracts for 'OPEN EVALUATION 2016'
• Ukrainian journal "Science and Innovation"
• Foresight and STI Governance
• Was auf der Weltklimakonferenz in Paris geschehen muss
• "Wir bereiten Entscheidungsgrundlagen für die Politik auf!"
• August Gächter (ZSI) live im Talk im Hangar- 7
• European Parliament Conference on R&D cooperation with ENP Countries
• COST Scientific Committee
• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships at the Centre of Social Innovation
• Seminar on Research and Innovation Policy
• CORDIS: VERA-Abschlusskonferenz bietet Zukunftsvisionen für kommenden EFR
• Open for new ideas - Chancellor Merkel at 2nd International German Forum
• Final conference of the "Forward Visions on the European Research Area" project
• Facilitating EU-Russian Scientific and Societal Engagement: Joint Efforts to Tackle Grand Challenges
• Thematic Pole 1: Innovation governance and policy
• Participation of the «New» EU Member States in the European Research Programmes
• Presseinformation des ZSI: FORSEE -- Die wünschenswerteste machbare Zukunft von digitalen Inhalten als Roadmap
• Rückblick auf die Abschlussevents von EVAL-INNO, WBC-INCO.NET & FORSEE
• DerStandard: "Kein weißer Fleck" mehr auf der Forschungslandkarte
• APA Science: "Westbalkan setzt Schritte in Richtung Europäischen Forschungsraum"
• "Governance of Science, Technology, and Innovation"
• ERA.Net RUS project successfully concluded
• ZSI_Stimmen im Februar: "Digitale Inhalte" für neue Zukunftsbilder
• Editorial: „Prognosen sind schwierig …
• Towards a vision for RTI cooperation between Russia and the EU
• Foresight-Russia: Neue Ausgabe des Journals erschienen
• EU-Russia Year of Science has been launched!
• "Hochkonjunktur für die Forschungsevaluation"
• Rückblick: FORSEE-Workshop in Budapest
• The EU-Russia Year of Science 2014 starts in November 2013
• Beyond Europe Empfehlungen