Outline of the Blueprints for Foresight Actions in the Region
Blueprints are practical guidelines to the setting
up and planning of foresight. They are manuals
or roadmaps, not foresight exercises in themselves.
Blueprints build upon real problems
in real regions, with strong stakeholder
involvement.
The expert group is built around a core group of experts
on foresight processes, who steer five working groups
with regional partners, chosen because of their capacity
to initiate actions and influence policymaking. The working
groups are open to outside participation, and the resulting
blueprints (one for each working group) are being
designed so as to provide useful tools for regions not
actively participating in the expert group, but facing the
same challenges. The work started in December 2003
and its present stage will end with a dissemination
conference in Brussels on September 23, 2004.
