Teagasc 2030 'Out of the box Thinking' Workshop
Workshop Programme (PDF Format, 140KB)
What is Foresight
Foresight is a systematic, participatory, future-intelligence-gathering and medium-to-long-term vision-building process aimed at present-day decisions and mobilising joint actions.
Foresight activities aim at:
Thinking the Future - Foresight identifies long-term future trends and scenarios to guide decision-making.
Debating the Future - Foresight is a participatory process involving different stakeholders (public authorities, industry, research organizations, NGOs and others).
Shaping the Future - Foresight aims to identify possible futures and defines strategies to achieve the most desirable future.
Why Foresight
Interrelationships between science, technology and society are becoming more complex. Therefore, thinking, debating and shaping the future is even more essential today to invest successfully in science and technology, and to make the industrial and societal choices that turn these investments into innovation and quality of life in the long-term.
As these investments have become very costly, policy makers in the public and private domain depend on more reliable systems to detect relevant signals early, and to evaluate the risks and opportunities of science and technology developments comprehensively.
One of the acknowledged merits of the Foresight methodologies developed in the last decade is to mobilise broad sets of stakeholders to give collective thought on priorities, and thus to prompt a societal debate to give strategic directions for policy making and to help build strategic capabilities and to inform research and innovation policies.
For more information on the Teagasc Foresight Project, contact Dr Lance O’Brien at: lance.obrien@teagasc.ie,see also www.tnet.teagasc.ie/foresight_public/index.asp
Teagasc Foresight
Teagasc 2030 is a Foresight exercise designed to establish a broadly-shared vision for the agri-food and rural economy in 2030. It aims to establish the knowledge requirements with a view to strengthening the strategic capabilities of Teagasc and its relevance to its stakeholders, as well as enabling it to provide proactive leadership in a rapidly changing open-market environment.
The specific objectives are:
- Develop a broadly shared vision for the long-term future of the agri-food and rural economy and for Teagasc as the leading provider of science-based knowledge to the sector
- Identify the technologies, research and innovation management strategies required to underpin the development of the sector in the short, medium and long-term
- Identify the strategies and mechanisms required to maximise the impact of training and technology transfer
- Build the strategic capabilities of Teagasc as a science-based knowledge organisation and develop a culture of continuous renewal
See Also:
Presentations
- The future of European agriculture (PowerPoint Format, 28KB)
- The EU dimension beyond 2013 (PowerPoint Format, 2.8MB)
- The case for metropolitan agiculture (PDF Format, 400KB)
- Out of the box thinking workshop (PowerPoint Format, 60KB)
- A ‘Radical Thinkers’ Workshop (PowerPoint Format, 500KB)
- Bradshaw and Biomass (PowerPoint Format, 6.9MB)
- How will science and technology contribute to changes in land uses and added value in 2030 (PDF Format, 2.6MB or PowerPoint Format, 7.7MB)
- Convergent Future (PowerPoint Format, 1.45MB)
- Food Biotechnology and Food Process Engineering (PowerPoint Format, 1.7MB)
- Out-of-the-Box-Thinking Workshop (PowerPoint Format, 19MB)
