Cooperation between e-IRG and ERA-NET ForSociety 5 th eIRG meeting December, 13 th 2004 Xenophon Tsilimparis, Katerina Papakonstantinou, Fotis Karayannis GRNET London - UK, December 13th, 2005

London, UK, December 13th, The ERA-NET ForSociety project ForSociety: a network of 16 countries across Europe Doing R&D or Innovation national agencies co-ordinate their “technology foresight” programmes 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 Similar to the e-IRG 20 year roadmaps

London, UK, December 13th, The ERANET-ForSociety network Coordinator: General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT) - Greece GSRTGSRT, 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 MESTC AS CR METLTM/DRASTMTI FINLANDBMBFVTU NKTHMCSTRCN MINOCRW/COSAR VINNOVATUBITAKDTI (OST)GRNETIFOKDBT MR SDIDT GSRTMESTC AS CR METLTM/DRASTMTI FINLANDBMBFVTU NKTHMCSTRCN MINOCRW/COSAR VINNOVATUBITAKDTI (OST)GRNETIFOKDBT MR SDIDT

London, UK, December 13th, ForSociety objectives - Proposal 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.

London, UK, December 13th, e-Infrastructure Foresight example dialogue 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?

London, UK, December 13th, e-IRG and ForSociety complementarities - Possible cooperation 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

London, UK, December 13th, Thanks! The ForSociety project Foresight definition