Seminar participants will receive basic and practical knowledge on: What is Foresight? How can foresight results be taken up by STI policy makers and practitioners especially with regard to research priorities setting?

The practical work part of the seminar will focus on designing a SEE knowledge societies related foresight exercise in the context of EU integration. This practical work is supposed to feed into a new project initiative that will have follow-up workshops in Belgrade in May 2009 and in Istanbul in September 2009

The organisers intend to cover the costs for registration and for accommodation (half board for the days of the training seminar and the conference) for about 25 - 30 participants from Albania, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, FYR of Macedonia and Kosovo/UNMIK for the participation at the foresight conference and at the training seminar. A limited number of grants for travel costs will be available upon request depending on availability of funds.

If you would like to participate at BF 2009 SEE Foresight training seminar you are kindly requested to fill in the Registration/Grant Application Form (available on internet: http://www.aso.zsi.at/aktuelles/3088.html and/or www.bled-forum.org) and send it to info.cegd@cegd.eu until Monday February 9, 2009, 12.00 CET.

A limited number of training seminar participants from non-SEE countries will be admitted (especially also from Slovenia and Austria), but without financial support from the organisers.

Selection of participants and notification is planned to take place by Monday February 16, 2009.

Contact persons:
Mr. Blaž Golob (blaz.golob@cegd.eu)
Mr. Miroslav Polzer (polzer@zsi.at)

Source: ASO Ljubljana

Further information: www.bled-forum.org