Millennium Project
German Node, Report July 2011
Planning Committee Meeting, Vancouver 2011
Cornelia Daheim
Head of German Node
Managing Partner, Z_punkt the Foresight Company
Activities of the German Node 2010/11
• SOF 2010: PR – international launch together with Bertelsmann at Berlin
• Studies contribution:
• LA Scenarios
• Arts and Media
• Regional Challenges
• German Node: New member – Bertelsmann Foundation
• Millennia 2015: development of variables, promotion and support
• European Millennium Project Nodes initiative: Poss. Meeting organization
• Thai Node: possible build-up – connection to MP
• German SOFI: proposal developed and discussed (in progress)
• EU-funded projects with other Nodes:
• Iknow (Project on Weak Signals for European Research): Launch of WIWE
Databank (with Isreal, Finnish and UK Node)
• InFu (Project on new innovation patterns): Results from Mini-Panels and
Scenario Report online (with German Node members)
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Major Node Project
2010: Node Profiles
Slide Set
SOF 2010 in the German Press
• Internal channels:
• Z_punkt Website & Newsletter (more than 5,000 recipients)
• German Node community and website
• Communication channels reaching future interested readers:
• “Blickpunkt Zukunft (spotlight future”): annual futurists’ report on global
challenges
• Channel reaching a wider public:
• Vdi news (information portal for engineers)
• Globaler-wandel.blogspot.com (blog on global change),
interview also on youtube
• Glocalist (monthly magazine on CSR, ethics in economy and social
responsibility)
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Spotlight: Node Profiles Slide Set
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Builds on GLOBAL MILLENNIUM PROJECT NODES SURVEY from 2010, conducted by the German Node
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Providing a map of all MP Nodes, which contains information on the Nodes‘ activities, members and contact
information
Showing the extent of the international foresight network
Fostering communication and cooperation among MP Nodes
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Next Step: Identifying possibilities for cooperation by mapping mutual thematic interests
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Map of Potential Future Cooperation Projects
• Based on the answers from the Millennium Project Nodes Survey
• Each node reported back on what topics it wants to work on in the future
• “Please, name up to 4 general and recent future topics from your area that you find especially interesting and
important”
• Identifying of clusters, which could be worked on jointly by several nodes
• First results (draft):
• Impacts of the financial crisis (Brazil, Argentina)
• Education (Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Brussels Area, Malaysia)
• Innovation (Finland, Brazil, South Africa)
• Climate Change (Bolivia, Finland)
• Sustainable Development (Brazil, Central Europe I)
• Energy (Azerbaijan, Canada, Finland, France)
• Food (India, UK)
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Exemplary Cluster Slide: Education
Baku: Education
Type of work? Public-private partnership project: 2 semester on-line
video course on future
 Further Information: www.futurestudies.az, Ms. Gunel Jahangirova
Penang: Education for Sustainable Global Futures
 Type of Work: Institutional
Brussels Area: Mutual Learning Platform
Brussels
Area
Bogotá
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 Type of work: European Commission 3 DG's + CoR + partnership
including The Destrée Institute
 Further Information: http://www.innovatingregions.org/network/presentation/projects.cfm?project_id=9
Bogotá: Education m.my
Baku
Penang
Plans
• PR for SOF 2011
• Continue and close EU-funded Projects InFu and
Iknow
• MP Node Map:
• Create Node’s interest map from survey
Selected Other Z_punkt /
German Foresight News
• Trend Radar
• Description of 170 trends
out of society, economy,
ecology, technology and
politics, new format and
lower price
outcomes
• Pass on MP Node Profiles slides to MP HQ for
continuous updates
• The Future of UK Waste:
Scenarios for Defra
• 4 scenarios
• Support of policy review
• To be published in July
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