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SELF-RULE

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SELF-RULE Network

StrategicEuropean andLatin AmericanForesight forResearch andUniversityLearningExchange

SELF-RULE 2005-2007 Work Plan is partly funded by the ALFA Programme of the

European Commission…

About us

SELF-RULE is an academic network with 12 member institutions from 8 countries.

SELF-RULE members are academic institutions committed to improve foresight research and capacity building by sharing foresight-related knowledge, experiences, skills & tools.

Having recognised that Foresight is a discipline which in the Public and Private sectors has demonstrated to be useful to support decision and policy making processes. SELF-RULE aims to contribute to the continuous generation of foresight professionals.

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The network operates in Europe & Latin America…

Where We Are

FTA SeminarSeville / Spain

12 institutions in 8 countries (4 European & 4 Latin American)

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VenezuelaColombiaBrazilPeru

United KingdomHungary FinlandSpain

The overall coordination of the network’s activities have been

shared between Venezuela and the UK …

Who We Are

BrazilUniversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

ColombiaUniversidad del Valle

PeruUniversidad de Lima

Universidad Nacional de IngenieríaUniversidad Nacional Agraria la MolinaPontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

VenezuelaUNEFM – Francisco de Miranda

UNEFA – Fuerzas Armadas

United KingdomPREST – University of Manchester

SpainUniversidad de Alicante

FinlandTurku School of Economics and Business Administration

HungaryCorvinus University of Budapest

General CoordinationYuli Villarroel (Venezuela)

Scientific CoordinationRafael Popper (UK)Michael Keenan (UK)

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The most relevant news of the network are regularly featured

in our event calendar …

Event Calendar

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SELF-RULE has 3 main objectives …

Our Objectives

1. To build sustainable foresight capabilities

– postgraduate, undergraduate and summer courses

2. To articulate academic institutions with other stakeholders (e.g. regional systems of innovation), thus contributing to regional development

– Seminars, congresses, events and academic awards

3. To exchange foresight knowledge, experiences and tools between European & Latin American countries

– Papers and books

– Monitoring experiences

– Knowledge exchange platform / e-Learning Space

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Our 2005-2007 Work Plan is designed around the3 main objectives …

2005-2007 Work Plan

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Our Main Objectives

Our Main Activities

Expected outcomes

Work Plan2005-2007

Building capabilities Articulating institutions

AcademicActivity

Exchanging Knowledge

BuildingModules

Building aWeb-Library

Cooperation with S&T actors

MobilityProgramme

24 mobilities& reports

5 publications

Monitoring

Book Chapters

TrainingCourses

UndergraduateModules

PostgraduateModules

TheoreticalReadings

MethodologicalReadings

Case StudiesResearch

Cooperation

A total of 24 researchers have benefited from the mobility

programme …

Mobility Programme

MOBILITY

SELF-RULE 2005-2007Timetable in months (Month 1 = March 2005)

  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

meeting 1(Venezuela)

01: LA-EU                 ve-uk        02: LA-EU                 pe-sp            03: LA-EU                            pe-uk              04: LA-EU                          br-fi                05: LA-LA                       pe-co                  06: LA-LA                         pe-ve            07: LA-LA                          br-ve            08: LA-LA                        co-pe            09: EU-LA                         fi-pe            10: EU-LA                         fi-ve            11: EU-LA                          uk-br            

meeting 2(Brazil)

12: LA-EU                           ve-sp              13: LA-EU                           ve-hu              14: LA-EU                           br-fi              15: LA-EU                           pe-fi              16: LA-EU                           co-sp                  17: LA-EU                                       co-uk  18: LA-LA                         ve-br                19: LA-LA                         ve-pe                20: LA-LA                         pe-co                21: LA-LA                         pe-br                22: EU-LA                           sp-ve                23: EU-LA                           sp-co                24: EU-LA                           hu-pe                

final meeting(UK)

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The network is also designing 5 modules of 24 hours each to make a total of 100 hours teaching / training material

on foresight …

Teaching Modules

• Foresight on Science, Technology & Innovation (24 hours)– Foresight Theory & Fundamentals– Foresight & Technology Watch

• Territorial Foresight (24 hours)– Regional Systems of Innovation– Strategic Urban-Regional Plans

• Socio-cultural Foresight (24 hours)– Foresight and university strategy– Human and social development

• Techno-economic Foresight (24 hours)– Foresight, project management & entrepreneurship– Foresight on Productive Chains– Entrepreneurial Foresight / Foresight on agro-business

• Thematic modules (environment, climate change… (24 hours)

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Most of the network’s activities are virtually coordinated and implemented with the help a

Web-Platform freely-available at http://www.self-rule.org

SELF-RULE has also developed a web-based

e-Training Space …

Source: I. Miles (2002)

You can learn about the Foresight Process…

Intelligence Gathering

Knowledge FusingVisioning

Targeting

Synthesis

Dissemination

Implementation

ScopingRenewal

Pre-Foresight

RecruitmentGeneration

Action

Monitoring

Management

Seeking Experts

Building Panels

Engaging Stakeholders

Evaluation

The Foresight ProcessMain

PhasesMain

ActivitiesInternal

Processes

Modelling

Extrapolation

Indicators

Benchmarking

Quantitative (6)

Cross-impact

Bibliometrics

Creativity

InteractionExpertise

Evidence

Science fiction

Scanning

Brainstorming

Essays / Scenario writing

Conferences / Seminars

Wild cards

SWOT analysis

Expert Panels

Genius forecasting

Scenario workshop

Morphological analysis

Interviews

Literature review

Citizen Panels

Relevance trees / Logic charts

Backcasting

Role Play/Acting

Roadmapping

Quantitative Scenarios/SMIC

Delphi

System/Structural analysis

Voting / Polling

Gaming-simulation

Stakeholders Mapping

Key/Critical technologies Multi-criteria

Patent analysis

Qualitative (17)

Semi-quantitative (10)

You can learn about 33 Foresight Methods…

Source: R. Popper (2006)

The Foresight Diamond

You can learn from many Foresight studies…

And many more…

And you can find free access to our

conferences, videos & news …

All our meetings and events are available in our

video / presentation player…

But most of all, SELF-RULE is a human network…

…with a solid & integrated team…

…ready to adapt to cultural diversity.

For further information please visit our website at http://www.self-rule.org

or contact rafael.popper@manchester.ac.uk