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Horizon Europe Foresight Network
This group is an internal communication platform for members of the Horizon Europe Foresight Network. Members will be able to explore and exchange weak signals as well as new emerging events of disruptive nature which are related to forward-looking issues and relevant to Europe’s future. Additionally, resources such as tools and methods will be shared to explore and identify potential areas of change in order to create disruptive impact on Europe’s ability to collaboratively achieve its overarching policy goals.
Cross National Foresight Initiatives
This group is directed to researchers and policy-makers who are interested in international cooperation in R&I foresight, to explore the implications of insights into the future for EU and national R&I policies, to share ideas, tools and methods and to explore topics of common interest.
For the first, I think the Joint Research Centre is a nice model - an international sui-generis organisation (Euratom) pools expertise in research in a crucial topic (nuclear) and in no time (20 years) European Commission ends up employs scientists to work together on projects of interest to the whole EU. Could work for the global as well ;-)
Treating scientists as spies because of their ethnicity is a rather extreme version of reciprocity. The notion that European advantage is imperiled by cooperation assumes that isolated researchers have advantages. Brave assumption on all counts. I am interested in two questions - at a higher level, hence the "signal" :
a) normatively: how can we help shape a global scientific community to become a force for peace, reason, stability and good governance in the world (see Put defence money into planetary emergencies, urge Nobel winners (nature.com)); and
b) analytically: from a world in which US and China compete closely for technological leadership what is the likelihood of a new bipolar system to emerge and what is the likelihood of emergence of some sort of alliance / or a cohesive duopoly of power?
However the MERICS report suggests a bit of cooling for Europe "As the MERICS report notes, academics and companies may put their own short-term needs for publications or profit first, cooperating with China even when it imperils long-term European technological advantage." https://sciencebusiness.net/news/europe-needs-understand-chinese-research-or-risks-being-exploited