Central European NodeMillennium Project

Pavel Nováček, Ivan Klinec

August 2006 – July 2007

Part 1: Priority projects1. Translation of the SOF reports 1997 – 2006 (selected chapters)2. Marshall Plan for Haiti – updated and abridged version of the study is ready; translation into French in August (Pierre Armand)3. Implementation of projects at local level – Baie de Henne, Haiti4. Cooperation with the Global Marshall Plan Initiative (www.globalmarshallplan.org)

Haiti: security in Port au Prince still limited (kidnapings)

Environment is degraded due to overpopulation, deforestation,…

Health care in rural areas is almost non-existent (mother with child suffering children´s polio)

Adoption at Distance (Children´s Sponsorship) – 200 children already adopted in Baie de Henne region

Health Care Centre in Mole St. Nicolas (2 doctors from Slovakia, 1 nurse from Olomouc)

Here, in Mole St. Nicolas Columbus perhaps landed first time in America

Closed health care centre in Baie de Henne …

and people waiting for help

Solar panel for missionary station…

and 32 solar panels (20 new) for community well (safe drinking water)

School for 250 children almost finished and operating (January 2007)

Classrooms in church (May 2005)

School canteen still not finished (beneficiary „Concert for Haiti“ organised by Caritas in August 07 should help to raise money)

New project – „Sport for Development“ and out of school activities (swimming etc.)

Better institutional background for CE Node

Since September 1st 2007: new „Department of Development Studies“ established at Palacky University (Faculty of Science) where CE Node will be based.

Study programme „International Development Studies“ (first of this kind in Central/Eastern Europe) accredited and opened (bachelor´s programme since 2003, master´s programme since 2005, now altogether

150 students; 30 in each year)

Mission of the International Development StudiesThe aim of IDS is to prepare experts for future operation

within the developing Czech programme of development cooperation. The graduates will be educated above all in science (geography and regional studies focusing on the developing regions, environment) but also in selected subjects of humanities (development economics, project cycle management etc).

Priorities in research area: environment/development issues, sustainable development, future-oriented studies, global issues

Future CE Node project?

State of the Future Atlas15 global challenges expressed in maps and

diagrams, plus tables, text and photos

Part 2: Other activitiesStructure of Node

Chair of NodeChair of NodePavel Nováček – Center for Interdisciplinary Studies

Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic  

Co-Chair of NodeCo-Chair of NodeIvan Klinec, Institute for Forecasting, Slovak Academy of Sciences

Bratislava, Slovak Rapublic  

Central Institution of NodeCentral Institution of Node  Department of Development Studies, Palacky University

Olomouc

in cooperation with

 Civic Futurological Society, Bratislava and PragueCenter for Social and Economic Strategies, Charles University, Prague

Main Activities of Node

 Participation in activities of The Millennium Project 

Participation in activities of European Millennium Project Nodes Initiative EuMPI

 Development of futures oriented studies in Czech Republic and Slovak

Republic 

Development of methodology of futures studies in Czech and Slovak Republics

 Cooperation with Universities in Czech Republic and Slovak Republic

 Cooperation with other institutions in Czech Republic and Slovak Republic

 Design of long-term strategies and studies

 Presentations, articles and publications

Participation in Activities of the Millennium Project 

Future of Education 2030 – Real-Time Delphi

State of the Future Index SOFI – Real-Time Delphi

Development of Future Studies

 Seminars of Futurological Society in Slovakia in Bratislava

Discussion Seminars of Civic Futurological Society in Prague Activities of Center for Social and Economic Strategies - CESES, Charles

University, Prague

International Conference Sustainable Development – New Trends and Challenges – April 2007, Olomouc

 Development of methodology of futures studies

 Development of scenario thinking and scenario designing – methodology and

workshops

Cooperation with Universities

  

Center for Social and Economic Strategies - CESES, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

 Center of Interdisciplinary Studies, Palacky University

Olomouc, Czech Republic 

Department of Philosophy, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovak Republic  

Cooperation with other institutions 

Society for Sustainable Living in Czech Republic 

Society for Sustainable Living in Slovak Republic 

Slovak Association of Club of Rome 

Institute for Forecasting, Slovak Academy of Sciences 

Center for Sustainable Development, Bratislava 

Slovak Society on Art and Science, Bratislava 

NGO www.veda.sk

Publications and Activities

   

•sk.wikipedia.org – 80 articles on futures studies and transhumanism

•Articles and interviews in media in Slovak Republic and Czech Republic

•Electronic publications on information society, scenario thinking and transhumanism for discussion seminars of Civic Futurological Society in

Prague 

2007 Work Plan of Central European Node of MP

Participation in Activities of The Millennium Project 

Cooperation with the Global Marshall Plan Initiative (www.globalmarshallplan.org) 

Partnership for Development – Haiti Project  

Seminars of Futurological Society in Slovakia – Bratislava

Discussion Seminars of Civic Futurological Society in Prague

Participation in organisation of International Colloquium Designing the Future in Europe 2007 – October 2007, Prague

  Scenario Thinking and Scenario Designing – methodology and workshops

 Development of methodology of futurology and futures studies

sk.wikipedia.org – articles on futures studies and transhumanism 

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