Mutual Learning Workshop: Strategic Intelligence for Extended Regional Coherence Eurasian Virtual Center for Foresight 2.0 EVC from the launch till now programme and activities in 2006-2011 Tatiana Chernyavskaya Expert on Industrial Development and Foresight Competitiveness, Upgrading and Partnerships Unit Business, Investment and Technology Services Branch Bucharest, 1
UN System: Mandate for Foresight UN Secretary General report on Bridging the Technology Gap between and within Nations, proposes to governments in developing countries and economies in transition, involving representatives from industry, academia and public sectors in carrying out comprehensive technology foresight exercises with a view to identifying technologies that are likely to help address pressing socio-economic needs and establish priorities in S&T policy and governmental programmes on research and education. 2006 2
In 2001 upon a request of some member states of the Central and Eastern Europe and Newly Independent states, launched a new initiative to promote the application of foresight in decision making 3
Components of Foresight Initiative by 2006 Awareness building and foresight culture National and Regional capabilities Regional and International coordination Partnerships promotion 4
support activities (2006) International Conferences and workshops on best practices and methodologies (national and regional) Integration in the regional initiative Promoting industry participation Task force of experts and methodology development during the foresight exercise Cooperation in the post-foresight process 5
Regional dimension the approach (2006) Foresight as a tool for regional R&D programmes Enhance quality and effectiveness of foresight through multi-country networking Reduce costs by sharing common activities Awareness of global and regional trends Joint vision and solutions for cross-border problems Concentration of multi-country production chains 6
AWARENESS BUILDING 2001 INTERNET LIFE Technology Foresight Initiative EVENTS TRAINING STUDIES COORDINATION AND PARTNERSHIPS - REGIONAL CONFERENC E - Experts Group Meet. 2002 WEB PAGE Kiev Conference 2003 e-media TF Summit 2003 Budapest MODULE 1 Budapest - Manuals - CD ROM - MODULE 1 Turkey - MODULE 2 Prague METHODOS and TOOLS EU ACCESSION IMPACT Automotive Agro-food BIOTECHNOLOG Y CORE GROUP NATIONAL FOCAL POINTS INDUSTRIAL PARTNERS 2004/0 7 e-policy TF Summit 2007 Budapest Experts Group Meeting, 2007 Vienna - MODULE 1 Gebze - MODULE 2 Prague - MODULE 3 Budapest - MODULE 4 Bratislava PRODUCTION CHAINS - REGIONAL R&D PROGRAMS - REGIONAL VIRTUAL CENTRE 7
Regional Virtual Center on Technology Foresight in 2006 Launched through request to member countries to nominate respective Steering Committee (SC) members and Focal Points with respective Managing Board (MB) members (April 2006) By the end of 2006 membership of 12 countries from the CEE/NIS Region First meeting of the Steering Committee (SC) in November 2006 8
Steering Committee Service Unit Managing board TF Studies Structure of the Regional Virtual Center (RVC) in 2006 fp fp fp fp fp fp1 fp2 TF Training 9 TUSSIDE, Turkey
Country Albania Azerbaijan Belarus Croatia Czech Republic Hungary Poland Romania Russian Federation Slovakia Turkey Ukraine Company National Agency for Business and Investment (AlbInvest) Ministry of Economic Development Belarus Republican Center for Technology Transfer Croatian Institute of Technology Technology Centre AS CR National Office for Research and Technology Institute for Fundamental Technological Research of the Polish Academy of Science National Authority for Science and Technology Higher School of Economics BIC Group Scientific and Technological Research Counsel of Turkey (TUBITAK) National Technical University of Ukraine, Kyiv Politechnical Institute (IASA)
Stages of the RVC Administration and related Achievements Stage 1 (2006-2007) 11
Supported by the Infopark (Hungary) as a Service Unit of the EVC 2006-2007: - prototype of the database of experts - Training Module 4 for Decision Makers (2006) first Steering Committee meeting - Decision on a new name of the Center Eurasian Virtual Center supported by the majority of the SC members - Draft Brochure with new EVC structure and functions - Business plan of activities, funding strategy and PR -related: - Promotion of the 2 nd Foresight Summit 2007 - Training Programme on TF 2007 (3 modules) 12
Governments Steering Committee Structure of the EVC (2008) Information Management Unit Managing Board Service Unit TF Studies fp TF Methods TF Portal fp fp TF Training Clients fp fp Experts and subcontractors fp fp TF Summit 13
What was in the AGENDA of the EVC in 2008? FutureFood6 multicountry Foresight Proposal for Foresight project on Automotive Industry in CEE/NIS Training Programme on Technology Foresight 2008/9 (5 modules) Administrative activities: SC Trainings Seminars on the use of Foresight as a tool for Decision and Policy Makers (Training programmes 2007 and 2008/9) Budapest, Hungary Second meeting of the Steering Committee in December 2008, Budapest, Hungary 14
Technology Foresight Initiative for CEE/NIS (2) AWARENESS BUILDING 2008 WEB PAGE DATA BANK EVENTS TRAINING STUDIES and REFERENCE MATERIAL FTA Conference (IPTS), Seville National workshops on Future Food - MODULE 1 Gebze, Turkey - MODULE 2 Prague - MODULE 3 Budapest - MODULE 4, Bratislava - MODULE 5 Vienna TF MANUAL (2 nd Edition) FutureFood6 COORDINATION AND PARTNERSHIPS EURASIAN VIRTUAL CENTER Information Management Unit 2009-2010 WEB PORTAL PROPOSAL - MODULE 4 Bratislava Automotive Industry INDUSTRIAL PARTNERS NEW NATIONAL FOCAL POINTS 15
Project: Healthy and Safe Food for the Future - A Technology Foresight Project in Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia Contract no.: 43005 FutureFood6 European Commission 6th Framework Starting date: 01 February 2007 Duration: 2 years Costs: Euro 724,929 16
Future Food 6 - Project Team WIIW OPTI FORESIGHT AND INNOVATION GROUP (FIG) B Hungary IEHAS Czech Republic TC AS CR Slovakia BIC Group Croatia NWMC Romania UEFISCSU Bulgaria ARC Fund C Committee of high-level D Knowledge institutions on national policy-makers food industry from every participating country 17
Training Programme on Technology Foresight 2008/9 Module 1: Technology Foresight for Organizers, Gebze(Turkey), 3-7/11/08; Module 2: Technology Foresight for Practitioners - A Specialized Course on Roadmapping, Prague (Czech Republic), 17-21/11/08; Module 3: Seminar on Technology Foresight for Decision and Policy-Makers, Seville (Spain),14-15/10/08; Budapest (Hungary), 2-3/12/08; Module 4: Technology Foresight for Corporations, Bratislava (Slovakia), 16-20/02/09; and Module 5: Trainers workshop on Technology Foresight, Vienna (Austria), 3-5/09/2008. 18
Example Number of participants in Module 2 for practitioners: attracted strong interest of participants worldwide (without any targeted marketing) 151 participants from 35 countries participated in courses in Prague in 6 consecutive years (2003-2008). Year 2003 2004 Country Albania, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Iran, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine Armenia, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Georgia, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Turkey, Ukraine, USA Number of Participants 2005 Canada, Colombia, Czech Republic, Italy, Romania, Slovenia, Turkey 16 2006 2007 2008 Azerbaijan, Botswana, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Romania, Russia, Serbia, South Africa Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Lithuania, Malaysia, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Turkey Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, India, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey 31 37 18 24 25 19
Stages of EVC Administration and Achievements Stage 2 (2008-2009) 20
Information Management Unit and Service Unit were created to support the EVC activities TC (Czech Republic) hosted IMU in 2008-2009, its main tasks included: - positioning of IMU within the EVC network and its web presence - description of existing Focal Points and definition of the target region - description of some of national innovation systems in the target region and identification of their key players - online questionnaire and some of its results prospects for the following phases of the project 21
EURASIAN VIRTUAL CENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY FORESIGHT Implementation of the Regional Programme on Technology Foresight for CEE/NIS 22
Implementation of the IMU (2008/9) Host organization: Technology Center of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Financing (proposed): and Czech contribution to the IDF (estimated budget was EUR 109,100) 23
The target users of the EVC/IMU are the following: Relevant institutions from the CEE/NIS region, participating in the TF Initiative, particularly those members of the EVC network; Representatives of Governments and parliaments as well as local administrations of the countries participating in the initiative through financing or other support facilities; Companies (especially SMEs) and business associations; and Professional and interest groups. 24
EVC mission to provide methodological and information support on technology foresight to industry and innovation policy decision makers, with a view to developing a foresight culture in the CEE/NIS region. The functions are to: Coordinate activities and provide advice and information on Foresight activities in the CEE/NIS region; Establish and coordinate a network of national institutions in the field of Foresight; Commission studies and communicate results to decision makers and the general public; Organize and support multi-country foresight exercises; Organize education and training programmes; and Prepare and organize regular Technology Foresight Summits. 25
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IMU mission and objectives Information Management Unit (IMU) is an executive subject of the Eurasian Virtual Centre on Technology Foresight hosted by the Technology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Its mission is to disseminate information with a potential to raise awareness on technology foresight in the CEE/NIS region. Other objective is to provide complex information support on the regional initiative on technology foresight for the CEE/NIS as well as on foresight training activities organized by and its cooperating partners, which are already well established and are expected to continue. Apart of the information function, other of main functions of IMU are: Update of EVC internet website, Promotion and marketing, and Support of EVC activities and development of the EVC network. Source: www.imu.tc.cz 27
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Figure 7: Demand for IMU services (Analysis of needs) Only basic information Support of Methodology and Implementation Foresight Evaluation Identification of experts Training on the spot Methodology Support and Couching Training in Prague Methodology Support Foresight Information 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 29-31 70 August 2011 80 90 Services
Present official member countries of EVC for CEE/NIS: 1. Albania (2006) 2. Armenia (2008) 3. Azerbaijan (2006) 4. Belarus (2006) 5. Croatia (2006) 6. Czech Republic (2006) 7. Hungary (2006) 8. Kazakhstan (2008) 9. Poland (2006) 10. Romania (2006) 11. Russian Federation (2006) 12. Slovakia (2006) 13. Turkey (2006) 14. Ukraine (2006) Unofficial membership: 1. Bulgaria 2. Estonia 3. Lithuania 4. 30
List of countries in target region CEE/NIS 1. Albania 2. Armenia 3. Azerbaijan 4. Belarus 5. Bulgaria * 6. Croatia 7. Czech Republic 8. Estonia* 9. FYRO Macedonia 10.Georgia 11.Hungary 12.Kazakhstan * 13.Kosovo 14.Kyrgyzstan 15. Latvia 16. Lithuania * 17. Montenegro 18. Poland 19. Romania 20. Russian Federation 21. Serbia 22. Slovakia 23. Slovenia * 24. Tadjikistan 25. Turkey 26. Turkmenistan 27. Ukraine 28. Uzbekistan 31
Stage 3 (2010-2011) Planned: Develop multi-country foresight project on automotive industry in the region Foresight Summit 2010* Establishment of Foresight Center in Ukraine Development of Foresight Portal Accomplished: Technology Foresight Workshop on the Future of the Automotive Industry in a Post-Carbon Economy, Gebze/Turkey, June 2010 Expert Meeting on Establishment of Foresight Center in Ukraine, Kiev June 2011 Development of the New Concept of the EVC (see MLW Issue Paper) Mutual Learning Workshop on EVC 2.0, Bucharest August 2011 32
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Strengths and Weaknesses (1) -Network of foresight-related institutions in CEE/NIS -Awareness about EVC in the region and related expectations/requests to -Web portals: www.unido.org/foresight www.imu.tc.cz - database of foresight experts in CEE/NIS; -Training programme on TF (5 modules) -Training programme on-line (Kiev-based) Willingness to continue? 34
Strengths and Weaknesses (2) -Business plan of activities -Role of -Clear structure and division of labor/responsibilities -Sustainable working modality -FUNDING strategy -Joint projects -Initiative from FPs -Sustainable membership -Clear perspective -Competitive environment - Demand for Foresight 35
esources Trends and drivers Applicati on Knowled ge base Tip s Past (including 2011) Short term (by 2013) Medium Term (by 2015) Long term (by 2020) Vision (2030)
Thank you for your attention! Let us discuss! T.Chernyavskaya@unido.org 37