SELF-RULE

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SELF-RULE
Our Website www.self-rule.org
FTA Seminar Seville / Spain
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SELF-RULE Network
StrategicEuropean andLatin AmericanForesight
forResearch andUniversityLearningExchange
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SELF-RULE 2005-2007 Work Plan is partly funded by
the ALFA Programme of the European Commission
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About us
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• 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
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Where We Are
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• 12 institutions in 8 countries
• (4 European 4 Latin American)

United Kingdom Hungary Finland Spain
Venezuela Colombia Brazil Peru
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The overall coordination of the networks
activities have been shared between Venezuela
and the UK
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Who We Are
Our Website www.self-rule.org
Scientific Coordination Rafael Popper
(UK) Michael Keenan (UK)
General Coordination Yuli Villarroel (Venezuela)

• BrazilUniversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
• ColombiaUniversidad del Valle
• PeruUniversidad de Lima
• Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería
• Universidad Nacional Agraria la Molina
• Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• VenezuelaUNEFM Francisco de Miranda
• UNEFA Fuerzas Armadas

United KingdomPREST University of Manchester
SpainUniversidad de Alicante Finland Turku
School of Economics and Business Administration
HungaryCorvinus University of Budapest
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The most relevant news of the network are
regularly featured in our event calendar
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Event Calendar
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SELF-RULE has 3 main objectives
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Our Objectives
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• To build sustainable foresight capabilities
• postgraduate, undergraduate and summer courses
• To articulate academic institutions with other
  stakeholders (e.g. regional systems of
  innovation), thus contributing to regional
  development
• Seminars, congresses, events and academic awards
• 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
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2005-2007 Work Plan
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Our Main Objectives
Our Main Activities
Expected outcomes
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A total of 24 researchers have benefited from the
mobility programme
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Mobility Programme
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08 LA-LA                          co-pe  co-pe  co-pe  co-pe              
09 EU-LA                             fi-pe fi-pe fi-pe              
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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
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Teaching Modules
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• 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 networks activities are virtually
coordinated and implemented with the help a
Web-Platform freely-available at
http//www.self-rule.org
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SELF-RULE has also developed a web-based
e-Training Space
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You can learn about the Foresight Process
Implementation
Dissemination
Renewal
Action
Pre-Foresight
Management
Monitoring
Evaluation
Recruitment
Generation
Engaging Stakeholders
Synthesis
Intelligence Gathering
Building Panels
Targeting
Seeking Experts
Knowledge Fusing
Visioning
Main Phases
Main Activities
InternalProcesses
The Foresight Process
Source I. Miles (2002)
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You can learn about 33 Foresight Methods
Creativity
Wild cards
Science fiction
Gaming-simulation
Essays / Scenario writing
Genius forecasting
Role Play/Acting
Brainstorming
Backcasting
Scenario workshop
Relevance trees / Logic charts
SWOT analysis
Citizen Panels
Roadmapping
Delphi
Interaction
Expertise
Morphological analysis
Conferences / Seminars
Expert Panels
Voting / Polling
Multi-criteria
Key/Critical technologies
Quantitative Scenarios/SMIC
Stakeholders Mapping
Benchmarking
Cross-impact
Interviews
Modelling
System/Structural analysis
Bibliometrics
Patent analysis
Extrapolation
Scanning
Literature review
Qualitative (17)
Indicators
Semi-quantitative (10)
The Foresight Diamond
Evidence
Quantitative (6)
Source R. Popper (2006)
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You can learn from many Foresight studies
And many more
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And you can find free access to our
conferences, videos news
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All our meetings and events are available in
ourvideo / presentation player
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But most of all, SELF-RULE is a human network
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with a solid integrated team
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ready to adapt to cultural diversity.
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For further information please visit our website
at http//www.self-rule.org or contact
rafael.popper_at_manchester.ac.uk