Expert Workshop

The Expert Seminar of the SPIDER-Project, held on 27th January 2005 in Brussels, brought together participants from different fields from regional decision-making in administrative institutions to researchers on relevant subjects and different regions in Europe from Dublin to Stuttgart and Turku. Altogether 24 experts were present. Thereby, the workshop facilitated a discussion on the subjects of the SPIDER-Project and widened the horizon of the project to a European level, beyond the scope of the three regions participating in the project.

Background Documents

programme of the workshop, pdf
summary of the discussion and the main results, pdf
presentations:
- SPIDER-Project Partners:
  - Juha Kaskinen ( Finland Futures Academy ): Introduction of the SPIDER-Project and a view of Southwest Finland in 2020: Beyond Information Society, pdf
  - Karlheinz Steinmüller / Cornelia Daheim (Z_punkt The Foresight Company, Germany): Duesseldorf Region in 2020: The Permanence of Change, pdf
  - Philippe Destatte and Pascale Van Doren (Institut Jules-Destrée, Wallonia, Belgium): Wallonia in 2020: Future Issues, Future Citizens, ppt
- Expert inputs:
  - Dr. Anette Braun, Future Technologies Division of VDI TZ GmbH, Germany: Regional Experiences of Using Foresight:
    Case descriptions of selected regional Foresight experiences in
    Germany, pdf
  - Marc Halévy, Fondation Noétique, Belgium: Intelligence régionale, ppt ( in French)
  - Florence Hennart, Ministère de la Région Wallonne, Direction de la Politique Economique: Analyse du positionnement compétitif de la Wallonie, ppt (in French)
  - Jean-Marie Rousseau, DG Research, European Commission: Key role of societal issues in energising the Knowledge Regions , zip (compressed ppt-document)
  - Jean-Marie Rousseau, DG Research, European Commission: Why and How Knowledge Regions should invest in their own future?, pdf
  - Prof. Laura Sinisalo-Ojala, TSEBA, Finland: Functional Food, pdf
Regional Reports (first work results from the Regions):