Cooperation between e-IRG Cooperation between e-IRG and ERA-NET ForSocietyand ERA-NET ForSociety

55thth eIRG meeting eIRG meetingDecember, 13December, 13thth 2004 2004

Xenophon Tsilimparis, Katerina Papakonstantinou, Fotis KarayannisXenophon Tsilimparis, Katerina Papakonstantinou, Fotis KarayannisGRNETGRNET

fkara@grnet.gr, fkara@grnet.gr, http://www.grnet.grhttp://www.grnet.gr London - UK, December 13th, 2005London - UK, December 13th, 2005

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The ERA-NET ForSociety The ERA-NET ForSociety projectproject

ForSociety: a network of 16 countries across Europe Doing R&D or Innovation national agencies co-ordinate their

“technology foresight” programmes http://www.eranet-forsociety.net/ForSociety

Project funded by DG Research in the framework of the ERA-NET scheme:

Coordination of national R&D programmes with ultimate objective the design and implementation of joint trans-national R&D programmes

“Foresight” aims at identifying possible technological futures and defining strategies to achieve them

http://www.cordis.lu/foresight/definition.htm Similar to the e-IRG 20 year roadmaps

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The ERANET-ForSociety The ERANET-ForSociety networknetwork

Coordinator: General Coordinator: General Secretariat for Research Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT) and Technology (GSRT) - Greece- Greece

GSRT, MES, TC AS CR, METLTM/DRAST, MTI FINLAND, BMBF, VTU, NKTH, MCST, RCN, MINOCRW/COS, AR, VINNOVA, TUBITAK, DTI (OST), GRNET, IFOK, DBT, MR SDIDT

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ForSociety objectives - ForSociety objectives - Proposal on ICT and e-InfrastructuresProposal on ICT and e-Infrastructures

Main objective to conduct “Trans-national Future Dialogues”

Future Dialogues have diverse themes proposed by the members : From energy to nutrition..

For the next period GRNET proposed the theme of “e-Infrastructures towards Innovation”

Document existing national scenarios/visions for e-Infrastructures

3 workshops anticipated (from Feb 2006 to Fall 2006) with the participation of :

foresight experts from different EU countries having worked on the national, regional or corporative level of foresight in ICT

e-Infrastructures experts from different EU countries working in the public or private area with a strong future oriented perspective (possibly involved within e-IRG)

policy makers of public or private bodies from different EU countries dealing with the set-up, management and implementation of foresight processes.

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e-Infrastructure Foresight example e-Infrastructure Foresight example dialogue issuesdialogue issues

How can e-infrastructures drive the cross border development of hybrid technologies such as bio-informatics, nanotechnologies, earth observation, precision farming, etc?

How multidisciplinary requirements could be best met through translational co-operation enabled by e-infrastructures?

What are the visions/scenarios behind the national ongoing or planned activities? What are the central visions and scenarios to be explored in a future translational

foresight exercise? What are the systemic and institutional changes needed to take effect in order to bring

e-infrastructures closer to national and European wide innovation systems? What are the national research and innovation policy implications towards serving

scientific multidisciplinarity through e-infrastructures? How further expansion of broadband and optical networking to companies,

governments, institutes and organisations could forge a relationship between e-Infrastructure and innovation on the long term?

How the grater economic and social context surrounding scientific exploration will affect the development of e-science and change the way we do science and innovation in general?

What is the impact of e-infrastructures on the organisation and functioning of science?

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e-IRG and ForSociety e-IRG and ForSociety complementarities - Possible complementarities - Possible cooperation with the e-IRGcooperation with the e-IRG

Forsociety foresight studies are similar to the long-term e-IRG roadmaps

e-IRG roadmaps focus on consulting the EC to future directions

Foresight focuses on stimulating synergies between national authorities into transnational programmes

Possible cooperation: e-IRG experts participate in the Foresight workshops Joint e-IRG – Foresight workshops during Austrian

presidency? e-IRG officially comments the Foresight documents

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Thanks! mailto:xtsili@grnet.gr, papak@grnet.gr,

fkara@grnet.gr The ForSociety project

http://www.eranet-forsociety.net/ForSociety

Foresight definition http://www.cordis.lu/foresight/definition.h

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