ForeIntegra project: Integrating Foresight in research infrastructure policy formulation

The guide is aimed at policy makers and managers of existing (and future) research infrastructures (RIs) and answers in 35 pages the following questions:

  • What is foresight?
  • Who uses foresight and why?
  • What challenges might foresight address?
  • How could foresight address these challenges?
  • How to organise and manage foresight exercises?
  • How to design a foresight methodology?
  • When could foresight be usefully deployed?
  • How could foresight reorient a national facility?
  • How could foresight formulate a RI roadmap?
  • How could foresight network facilities?
  • How could foresight scope large-scale RIs?

From the website http://www.arcfund.net/foreintegra.php also the following documents are available:

  • Conducting pilot foresight exercise in the AgriFood and Biotech RI area through Success Scenario Workshop
  • Elaboration of Policy Recommendations for more extensive use of Foresight in RI
Citation

ForeIntegra-RI (2007): Practical Guide for Integrating Foresight in Research Infrastructures Policy Formulation, available from http://www.arcfund.net/foreintegra.php

Guide Editors: PREST (UK) Michael Keenan and Rafael Popper

Guide Authors: ARC Fund (Bulgaria) Maria Alexandrova, Denitsa Marinova and Daniela Tchonkova
PREST (UK) Michael Keenan and Rafael Popper
IE HAS (Hungary) Attila Havas

Language

English

Publication Year

2007

Source
Attila Havas
Geographical focus
  • International; Other
Attachments

Entry created by Elke Dall on March 8, 2008
Modified on March 8, 2008