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Eye of Europe´s third Mutual Learning Event21 January - 21 January 2025
Integration of Foresight into the R&I Policy Cycle
The third Mutual Learning Event (MLE), organized by Technology Centre Prague (TC) took place on January 21st, 2025 as part of the Horizon Europe project Eye of Europe, which aims to enhance the integration of foresight practices into the Research and Innovation (R&I) policy-making across Europe and to nurture a vibrant, cohesive R&I foresight community that contributes significantly, as a collective intelligence, to shaping and guiding policy decisions.
Over forty participants from diverse stakeholder groups: Eye of Europe partner organizations, the European Commission, R&I funding agencies, representatives of governmental bodies joined online to focus on the topic of integration of foresight into the R&I policy cycle. Expert presentations of two European and one national cases on diverse practices for integrating foresight results into the R&I policy cycle formed the basis for vivid discussions in three interactive sessions.
Presentations:
• Eye of Europe project coordinator Radu Gheorghiu (UEFISCDI, Romania) introduced the Eye of Europe project in the context of building on previous experiences a social infrastructure to support the development of foresight community as a collective intelligence. He highlighted the activities to strengthen the foresight community, among others, the Futures4Europe conference to be held in Vienna on May 15-16, 2025. More information can be found on the futures4europe.eu platform which has been upgraded to facilitate its role as a tool to empower users to build an inclusive European foresight community. Multiple new improvements of the platform were shared in the closing section of the event.
• Moderator of the event Lenka Hebáková (TC Prague, Czech Republic) followed up with an introduction to the event´s aims and agenda.
• Nikos Kastrinos (former EC) “FOD Foresight towards the second strategic plan of Horizon Europe” brought insights into how foresight was employed and linked with the policy cycle in the period of HE strategies setting within the Foresight on Demand project.
• “Megatrends 2050 in a Changing World and their Impact on Portugal” presented by Monica Isfan (PlanAPP, Portugal) introduced an overview of activities on embedding foresight in the policy making in the context of strategic planning in Portugal.
• Klaus Kubeczko (AIT, Austria) and Jürgen Wengel (former EC) shared about the Foresight on Demand project “FOD S&T&I 2050: Ecosystem“. The presentation included several foresight activities used to identify and map the relationship between emerging trends in science, technology and innovation and ecosystem performance in the context of the European Green Deal. It highlighted participatory approach by involving wide range of experts and other stakeholders to provide societal conversations as an important part of the project.
This event is the third in a series of five MLEs planned in the project; the following event will be held beginning April 2025 in Budapest. All Eye of Europe MLEs are organized by Technology Centre Prague (TC), Eye of Europe partner and key Czech national think tank and academia based NGO with a rich experience with knowledge-based policy making support and (participatory as well as expert based) foresight activities.
Posted on: 17/02/2025