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 as well as in topics of high societal relevance, such as Climate Change, Energy, or Bioeconomy. To enable policy actions today, based on insights of the future, an adequate foresight process involving major stakeholder groups is necessary, e.g. policy-makers, scientists, industry, or civil society, as they help to identifythe barriers to and catalysts of a desirable future. Recommendations help decision-makers to ascertain the challenges and their possible solutions.
Some of ZSI's foresight endeavours focus(ed) on
- providing a Foresight-on-Demand mechanism to the European Commission,
- improving future RTDI governance and priority-setting,
- regional cooperation with Southeast Asia on sustainable development,
- 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:
Kooperationspartner
- Institutul de Prospectiva
- Istituto di Studi per l'Integrazione dei Sistemi (ISINNOVA)
- Austrian Institute of Technology
Projekte
- ENergy TRANsitions from Coal and carbon: Effects on Societies
- Foresight on Demand in Science, Technology, and Research and Innovation Policy
- National Strategies and roadmaps for international cooperation in Research & Innovation
- Digitalisierung – Industrie 4.0 – Arbeit 4.0 – Gender 4.0
- Bioökonomie Dialogforen
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Publikationen
- Exploring the performance gap in EU Framework Programmes between EU13 and EU15 Member States
- Using the Delphi Method in Evaluations – Incorporating a Future Oriented Perspective in Evaluations
- Offene Wissenschaft braucht offene Infrastrukturen
- Foresight für internationale Wissenschaftspolitik
- Evaluating foresight in transnational research programming
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Veranstaltungen
- BILAT USA 4.0 Citizen Science Workshop 2018
- VERA: Forward Visions on the European Research Area
- FORSEE Final Conference and Brokerage