ERA-LEARN Training Course: Using Foresight in Public-Public-Partnerships (P2Ps)

Date: 20/01/2016 - 22/01/2016

ERA-LEARN 2020 offers a training course on the application of foresight-processes for trans-national coordination of strategic research and innovation. The aim of this training course is to empower management structures of Public-Public-Partnerships in their endeavor to develop, align and update their Strategic Research (and Innovation) Agendas in the trans-national context of Joint Programme Initiatives.

ERA-LEARN 2020 offers a training course on the application of foresight-processes for trans-national coordination of strategic research and innovation. The aim of this training course is to empower management structures of Public-Public-Partnerships in their endeavor to develop, align and update their Strategic Research (and Innovation) Agendas in the trans-national context of Joint Programme Initiatives. 

The training course is organized as intensive 3-day personalised on-site seminar. It will illustrate how to set up a foresight process and to choose appropriate methods and techniques that fit to the aim of the foresight exercise. Participants will have the opportunity to work on a real-case theme to learn how to apply a set of core techniques and reflect upon them. This training course will be repeated twice in the following years.

Benefits for participants

  • Support for the formulation or update of Strategic Research Agendas of Joint Programme Initiatives
  • Support ERA Nets und Article 185 Initiatives in their strategic activities

Learning Experience

  • Participants will get a clear understanding of Foresight and learn about the potential of Foresight in planning trans-national research programmes
  • Participants will learn how to plan and set-up Foresight processes
  • Participants will get an overview of methods of relevant fields of expertise
  • Participants will learn and experience the core elements of a strategic foresight using scenario techniques by applying it to a real world case.

Target Groups

  • Representatives from JPI management and governing bodies responsible for implementation of Strategic Research Agenda and for evaluation
  • The training is open for policy makers in preparation of an ERA-NET, ERA-NET Managers and Managers of Article 185 Programs
  • Participation from countries with less experience in trans-national joint programming is explicitly encouraged

 

Venue: TechGate Vienna, Donau-City-Str. 1, 1220 Vienna 

Costs

  • There are no participation fees involved.
  • Travel and accomodation costs have to be borne by participants

 Applications for participation

  • Participation is limited to 25 participants
  • Registration was open from November 30, 2015 to December 25, 2015  

Training Team

  • AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
  • UNIMAN University of Manchester

Agenda