SELF-RULE Our Website www.self-rule.org FTA Seminar Seville / Spain

SELF-RULE Network Strategic European and Latin American Foresight for Research and University Learning Exchange

SELF-RULE 2005-2007 Work Plan is partly funded by the ALFA Programme of the European Commission…

About us Our Website www.self-rule.org SELF-RULE is an academic network with 12 member institutions from 8 countries. SELF-RULE members are academic institutions committed to improve foresight research and capacity building by sharing foresight-related knowledge, experiences, skills & tools. Having recognised that Foresight is a discipline which in the Public and Private sectors has demonstrated to be useful to support decision and policy making processes. SELF-RULE aims to contribute to the continuous generation of foresight professionals. FTA Seminar Seville / Spain

The network operates in Europe & Latin America…

12 institutions in 8 countries (4 European & 4 Latin American) Where We Are Our Website www.self-rule.org 12 institutions in 8 countries (4 European & 4 Latin American) Venezuela Colombia Brazil Peru United Kingdom Hungary Finland Spain FTA Seminar Seville / Spain

The overall coordination of the network’s activities have been shared between Venezuela and the UK …

Scientific Coordination Who We Are Our Website www.self-rule.org General Coordination Yuli Villarroel (Venezuela) Scientific Coordination Rafael Popper (UK) Michael Keenan (UK) Brazil Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Colombia Universidad del Valle Peru Universidad de Lima Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería Universidad Nacional Agraria la Molina Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Venezuela UNEFM – Francisco de Miranda UNEFA – Fuerzas Armadas United Kingdom PREST – University of Manchester Spain Universidad de Alicante Finland Turku School of Economics and Business Administration Hungary Corvinus University of Budapest FTA Seminar Seville / Spain

The most relevant news of the network are regularly featured in our event calendar …

Event Calendar www.self-rule.org Our Website FTA Seminar Seville / Spain

SELF-RULE has 3 main objectives …

Our Objectives To build sustainable foresight capabilities Our Website www.self-rule.org To build sustainable foresight capabilities postgraduate, undergraduate and summer courses To articulate academic institutions with other stakeholders (e.g. regional systems of innovation), thus contributing to regional development Seminars, congresses, events and academic awards To exchange foresight knowledge, experiences and tools between European & Latin American countries Papers and books Monitoring experiences Knowledge exchange platform / e-Learning Space FTA Seminar Seville / Spain

Our 2005-2007 Work Plan is designed around the 3 main objectives …

2005-2007 Work Plan Our Main Objectives Our Main Activities Our Website www.self-rule.org Our Main Objectives Our Main Activities Expected outcomes FTA Seminar Seville / Spain

A total of 24 researchers have benefited from the mobility programme …

SELF-RULE 2005-2007 Timetable in months (Month 1 = March 2005) Mobility Programme Our Website www.self-rule.org MOBILITY   SELF-RULE 2005-2007 Timetable in months (Month 1 = March 2005) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 meeting 1 (Venezuela) 01: LA-EU ve-uk 02: LA-EU pe-sp 03: LA-EU  pe-uk 04: LA-EU  br-fi 05: LA-LA   pe-co 06: LA-LA   pe-ve 07: LA-LA  br-ve 08: LA-LA  co-pe 09: EU-LA fi-pe 10: EU-LA fi-ve 11: EU-LA  uk-br meeting 2 (Brazil) 12: LA-EU ve-sp 13: LA-EU ve-hu 14: LA-EU br-fi 15: LA-EU pe-fi 16: LA-EU co-sp 17: LA-EU co-uk 18: LA-LA ve-br 19: LA-LA ve-pe 20: LA-LA pe-co 21: LA-LA pe-br 22: EU-LA sp-ve 23: EU-LA sp-co 24: EU-LA hu-pe final meeting (UK) FTA Seminar Seville / Spain

The network is also designing 5 modules of 24 hours each to make a total of 100 hours teaching / training material on foresight …

Teaching Modules Our Website www.self-rule.org Foresight on Science, Technology & Innovation (24 hours) Foresight Theory & Fundamentals Foresight & Technology Watch Territorial Foresight (24 hours) Regional Systems of Innovation Strategic Urban-Regional Plans Socio-cultural Foresight (24 hours) Foresight and university strategy Human and social development Techno-economic Foresight (24 hours) Foresight, project management & entrepreneurship Foresight on Productive Chains Entrepreneurial Foresight / Foresight on agro-business Thematic modules (environment, climate change… (24 hours) FTA Seminar Seville / Spain

Most of the network’s activities are virtually coordinated and implemented with the help a Web-Platform freely-available at http://www.self-rule.org

SELF-RULE has also developed a web-based e-Training Space …

You can learn about the Foresight Process… Implementation Dissemination Renewal Scoping Action Pre-Foresight Management Monitoring Evaluation Generation Recruitment Engaging Stakeholders Synthesis Intelligence Gathering Building Panels Targeting Seeking Experts Knowledge Fusing Visioning Main Phases Main Activities Internal Processes The Foresight Process Source: I. Miles (2002)

You can learn about 33 Foresight Methods… Creativity Wild cards Science fiction Gaming-simulation Essays / Scenario writing Genius forecasting Role Play/Acting Backcasting Brainstorming Relevance trees / Logic charts Scenario workshop Roadmapping Delphi SWOT analysis Citizen Panels Expertise Expert Panels Morphological analysis Conferences / Seminars Interaction Key/Critical technologies Multi-criteria Voting / Polling Quantitative Scenarios/SMIC Stakeholders Mapping Interviews Benchmarking Cross-impact Modelling System/Structural analysis Bibliometrics Patent analysis Extrapolation Scanning Literature review Indicators Qualitative (17) The Foresight Diamond Semi-quantitative (10) Evidence Source: R. Popper (2006) Quantitative (6)

You can learn from many Foresight studies… And many more…

And you can find free access to our conferences, videos & news …

All our meetings and events are available in our video / presentation player…

But most of all, SELF-RULE is a human network…

…with a solid & integrated team…

…ready to adapt to cultural diversity.

For further information please visit our website at http://www For further information please visit our website at http://www.self-rule.org or contact rafael.popper@manchester.ac.uk