Session 2.4 conclusions: Which forward looking activities can support the future development of ERA?
Thursday, November 5th, 2009• Forward looking activities should underpin EU and national policies.
• Research and innovation policy making, ERA strategy, Joint Programming, etc. need forward looking activities to ensure that priority setting is well taking into account long term trends of society and its main global drivers such as interdependencies between economic development, scarcity of natural resources, climate change and the intensification of communication.
• Forward looking activities do not start from scratch: concepts, methods and tools exist and have been subject to several applications in the past by the Commission (cf. Barcelona objectives, FP7 Impact Assessment, energy and climate change policies). Forward looking …