Millennium Project German Node

Planning Commitee Meeting, Boston 2010

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The German Node…

Dr. Kerstin Cuhls, Fraunhofer Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung (ISI)

Dr. Dr. Axel Zweck, VDI Technologiezentrum, Zukünftige Technologien Consulting

Prof. Dr. Peter Mettler, FH Wiesbaden

Dr. Lars Gerhold, FU Berlin, Forschungsforum Öffentliche Sicherheit

Dr. Gereon Uerz, Volkswagen AG, Konzernforschung

Vanessa Watkins, Senior Foresight Consultant Z_punkt

Dr. Günter Clar, Steinbeis Europa- Zentrum (SEZ)

Cornelia Daheim, Managing Director Z_punkt

Robert Fischbach, Freie Universität Berlin, Institut Futur

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Activities of the German Node 2009 / 2010

• PR for German Node and for 2010 SOF in cooperation with the Bertelsmann Foundation

• Work on the 2010 SOF

– Input on Global challenges; Revision of Europe sections

• Contribution to the following requests send out over the MP-Nodes mailing list:

• We suggested expert groups for the Global Climate Change Situation Room

- Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy

- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

- We participated in the RTD for Latin America in 2030 and communicated the RTD in our networks

- We suggested participants for the UN World Water Scenarios with UNESCO

- Prof. D. Peter Wilderer (TU Munich, winner of the “Stockholm Water Prize”)

- Prof Dr. Carlo C. Jaeger (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)

- Dr. Dieter Gerten (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)

- We started a cooperation with Bertelsmann Foundation for a „European Launch of the SOF“ – Jerry will

participate over video conference

- And we conducted a Node Survey and wrote an article about it

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SOF 2010 in the German and Austrian Press

Internal Channel:- Z_punkt Website & Newsletter (more than 5000 recipients), German Node community and website

The Bertelsmann Foundation launched the SOF 2009 in cooperation with the German Node, Jerry was invited as a speaker

The public media in Germany and Austria pickt up on the SOF 2009 (selection):

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German Node Survey and what next?

German Node conducted a survey, with the objective to establish better knowledge among all MP Nodes of what other Nodes are working on and what is regarded as key future topics in the different regions they represent.

Planes for next Year:• PR for SOF 2010: Following up on the press conference from the 7 th of July• Continue cooperation with other Nodes, especially within framework of EU-Projects Iknow and INFU• Plan, if and how we want to follow up on the survey results:

• Writing another article to be published in another foresight magazine.• Using the data for a visualized map• All the German node members would like to be in closer contact with other nodes – how can we foster

this?