SCOPE 2015 - Scenarios For Research & Technology Development Cooperation With Europe
Description
SCOPE 2015 is a European Commission funded initiative aimed at producing scenarios for research and technology
development cooperation with Europe.
Objectives
A key objective of the European Union’s Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (RTD) is
to open up the European Research Area (ERA) to the rest of the world. In doing so, research can contribute to
the solution of specific problems faced by third countries in equitable partnerships. This project is unique in
its scope in terms of its multi-regional focus and its particular emphasis upon international cooperation and
eventual feedback to EU RTD policy.
Description
How such partnerships might operate in future Framework Programmes is the focus of the SCOPE 2015 project. SCOPE 2015 will generate 10-year scenarios to be used by policy makers to guide decision processes on the shape and scope of future RTD cooperation between Europe and other parts of the world. Specifically, the project will focus upon a selected group of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (excl. South Africa), the Maghreb and Mashreq, Latin America (excl. Brazil and Mexico), and the Commonwealth of Independent States (excl. Russia). The table lists the countries covered.
Scenarios are plausible and coherent pictures of the future. They are used NOT to predict the future, but rather to expand the ‘possibility space’ on how the future might unfold. Importantly, scenarios encourage us to think about the measures we might take today to shape the future we want tomorrow.
Scenarios have been used by policy professionals at the level of the nation, the region or municipality, at the level of the research system, the industry sector and cluster, and so on. They have also been used by the European Commission to shape future policies.
Within SCOPE 2015, RTD policy makers and experts will be engaged as national correspondents from those countries covered. National RTD status reports will be produced and will be used as the basis for developing a range of plausible, yet contrasting, scenarios for future RTD cooperation between Europe and the regions under study. A mixture of online and face-to-face workshops will be used to develop and validate the scenarios, as well as to identify and scope future policy measures.
The project has 12 months duration, and will culminate in a decision makers’ conference where policy measures will be further debated. This is scheduled to take place in late 2005.
SCOPE 2015 is funded by the European Commission. It is led by PREST at the University of Manchester, in association with Crehan, Kusano Associates, Steinbeis-Europa Zentrum, and the Malta Council for Science and Technology.
Further information on the project can be obtained at: SCOPE 2015
Expected Results
- Historical Policy and Institutional Developments of the regions
- Contemporary Institutional Landscape
- Role of Donors and International Organisations
- National RTD Policy of selected countries
- Future Visions/Foresight
- RTD Funding: Sources, Levels and Allocation Mechanisms
- Human and infrastructural Resources
- Ability to Address Emerging RTD Priority Areas
- International RTD Cooperation
- Prospects for Advancing RTD in selected countries
- Potential and capacity of S&T in the regions
- Emerging S&T domain areas in the regions
- Potential for cooperation between the regions' S&T and the EC
- Modes of future cooperation (considering the new instruments available through INCO)
Regions - Countries
| Sub-Saharan Africa: |
Botswana, |
Ghana, |
Kenya, |
Nigeria, |
Senegal |
| Latin America: |
Argentina, |
Chile, |
Colombia, |
Cuba |
| CIS: |
Azerbaijan, |
Georgia, |
Kazakhstan, |
Ukraine |
| Maghreb and Mashreq: |
Egypt, |
Jordan, |
Morocco, |
Tunisia |
Core Partners
Online Foresight Tools
Results
- Ongoing project. Results not yet available...
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