Planning Committee Meeting, Vancouver 2011

Cornelia DaheimHead of German NodeManaging Partner,

Z_punkt the Foresight Company

Millennium ProjectGerman Node, Report July 2011

Activities of the German Node 2010/11

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• SOF 2010: PR – international launch together with Bertelsmann at Berlin

• Studies contribution:

• LA Scenarios

• Arts and Media

• Regional Challenges

• German Node: New member – Bertelsmann Foundation

• Millennia 2015: development of variables, promotion and support

• European Millennium Project Nodes initiative: Poss. Meeting organization

• Thai Node: possible build-up – connection to MP

• German SOFI: proposal developed and discussed (in progress)

• EU-funded projects with other Nodes:

• Iknow (Project on Weak Signals for European Research): Launch of WIWE

Databank (with Isreal, Finnish and UK Node)

• InFu (Project on new innovation patterns): Results from Mini-Panels and

Scenario Report online (with German Node members)

• Major Node Project 2010: Node Profiles Slide Set

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SOF 2010 in the German Press

• Internal channels:

• Z_punkt Website & Newsletter (more than 5,000 recipients)

• German Node community and website

• Communication channels reaching future interested readers:

• “Blickpunkt Zukunft (spotlight future”): annual futurists’ report on global

challenges

• Channel reaching a wider public:

• Vdi news (information portal for engineers)

• Globaler-wandel.blogspot.com (blog on global change),

interview also on youtube

• Glocalist (monthly magazine on CSR, ethics in economy and social

responsibility)

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Spotlight: Node Profiles Slide Set

• Builds on GLOBAL MILLENNIUM PROJECT NODES SURVEY from 2010, conducted by the German Node

• Providing a map of all MP Nodes, which contains information on the Nodes‘ activities, members and contact information

• Showing the extent of the international foresight network• Fostering communication and cooperation among MP Nodes

• Next Step: Identifying possibilities for cooperation by mapping mutual thematic interests

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Map of Potential Future Cooperation Projects

• Based on the answers from the Millennium Project Nodes Survey

• Each node reported back on what topics it wants to work on in the future

• “Please, name up to 4 general and recent future topics from your area that you find especially interesting and

important”

• Identifying of clusters, which could be worked on jointly by several nodes

• First results (draft):

• Impacts of the financial crisis (Brazil, Argentina)

• Education (Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Brussels Area, Malaysia)

• Innovation (Finland, Brazil, South Africa)

• Climate Change (Bolivia, Finland)

• Sustainable Development (Brazil, Central Europe I)

• Energy (Azerbaijan, Canada, Finland, France)

• Food (India, UK)

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Exemplary Cluster Slide: Education

Bogotá

Brussels Area

Baku Penang

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Plans Selected Other Z_punkt / German Foresight News

• PR for SOF 2011

• Continue and close EU-funded Projects InFu and

Iknow

• MP Node Map:

• Create Node’s interest map from survey

outcomes

• Pass on MP Node Profiles slides to MP HQ

for continuous updates

• Trend Radar

• Description of 170 trends

out of society, economy,

ecology, technology and

politics, new format and

lower price

• The Future of UK Waste:

Scenarios for Defra

• 4 scenarios

• Support of policy review

• To be published in July