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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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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