Scope 2015
SCOPE 2015 was a European Commission funded initiative aimed at guiding decision processes on the shape and scope of future RTD cooperation between Europe and other parts of the world. Specifically, the project focused upon a selected group of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Maghreb and Mashreq, Latin America, and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
SCOPE 2015 built upon the Foresight methodology and generated 10-year scenarios for RTD cooperation with Europe to be used by policy makers. The main objectives of the Scope 2015 scenario work were:
- to develop and utilise a set of baseline scenarios that expand the possibility space for future RTD developments in the four regions under study;
- to assemble a group of stakeholders together in Brussels to consider the implications of these scenarios for future RTD cooperation between the EC and the regions under study;
- (for the regions involved) to develop their own success scenario for future RTD cooperation with Europe; and
- for the process to begin to build an “advocacy coalition” around the success scenario (and its associated policy measures), in the hope of increasing it’s likelihood of implementation.
Within SCOPE 2015, RTD policy makers and experts were engaged as national correspondents from the countries covered. National RTD status reports were produced and used as the basis for developing a range of plausible, yet contrasting, scenarios for future RTD cooperation between Europe and the regions under study. A mixture of online and face-to-face workshops was used to develop and validate the scenarios, as well as to identify and scope future policy measures.
Contact:
Dr. rer. nat. Guenter Clar, Tel. 0711 123 4017
Email: clar@steinbeis-europa.de