Millennium Project Planning
Committee
Toronto, 26-27 July 2012
Martin Rhisiart
Centre for Research in Futures and
Innovation

• 19 th September 2011
• Hosted by The Futures Company
Completion of surveys and recruitment of reviewers
Recruitment of expert reviewers on 15 Global
Challenges for CIS
• RTD Future Business Models and Cooperatives
• RTD CIS

Coverage of the 2011 State of the Future Report

OBJECTIVES
1. Build awareness and understanding of the scale of demographic and financial pressures on Welsh public services now and over the next
10-15 years
2. Explore how Welsh Public Services can both respond to these pressures and increase their contribution to economic wellbeing - so that the most vulnerable and those in poverty are best protected from the impact of reducing resources at a time of increasing demand
3. Create a ‘civic space’ in which radical and innovative ideas for Welsh public services can be considered, debated and potentially adopted
4. Crucially this work will consider both innovative models of service delivery and changes to the public service system required for such innovations to be sustained.

© Institute for Fiscal Studies
• Health and pensions alone could account for more than a half of non-interest spending by 2060
• On these assumptions education spending falls from 14% to 11% of the total

Projects already identified
1. Fiscal projections
2. Seeds of change – comparative policy review
3. Seeds of change – Welsh public innovations and innovators
4. Language and discourse on public services – challenging assumptions
Others to come…

• New project – to be launched August 2012
• EU Research Project – Cultural Heritage and
Global Change
• Futures project within larger programme
• Possible RTD in Autumn 2012