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RESCUE foresight initiativeResponses to Environmental and Societal
Challenges for our Unstable Earth
ForwardLook
RESCUE
www.esf.org/rescue
ESF-COST Frontier of Science
initiative & ESF Forward Look
developed after a request from the French CNRS
ESF European Science Foundation COST European Cooperation in Science & Technology
September 2009 June 2011
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1. interdisciplinary synergy between natural, social & human
sciences to respond efficiently to societal and policy-relevantneeds related to the global environmental changes;
2. definition ofnew scientific issues, especially those of trans-
disciplinary nature or of major society-driven relevance;
3. development ofnew institutional approaches towards
interdisciplinary science & to facilitate the revolution in
education and capacity building it requires.
RESCUE Objectives ensuring strategic scientific advice and
approaches for sustainable development &
global sustainability governance
RESCUEobjectives
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Chair: Prof. Leen Hordijk (Inst. Environ. & Sustainability, EC-JRC, IT)
Vice-Chair: Prof. Gsli Plsson (Social & Env. Anthrop., U. Iceland, IS)
Thematic Leaders:
Prof.Joseph Alcamo (UNEP Chief Scientist, KN)Prof. Michael Goodsite (Aarhus U., DK)
Prof. Sierd Cloetingh (Free University, Amsterdam, NL)
Prof. Poul Holm (Trinity College Dublin, IE)
Prof. Claudia Pahl-Wostl (University of Osnabrck, DE)
Prof. Theo Toonen (Delft University of Technology, Delft, NL)
Prof. Karen OBrien (University of Oslo, NO)
Prof. Jonathan Reams (N.U. Science & Technology, Trondheim, NO)
Dr. Jill Jger (Vienna, AT)
Prof. Frans Berkhout (Free University, Amsterdam, NL)
RESCUE Leadership
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Dr. Patrick Monfray (FR), initiator agency (CNRS) representative
Prof. Sonja Lojen (SI), LESC member
Prof. Luisa Lima (PT), SCSS member
Prof. Ulrike Landfester (CH), SCH member Prof. Ole-John Nielsen (DK); Prof. M. Kaminska (PL), PESC members
Dr. Ipek Erzi (TK), ESSEM Chair;J. Ingram (UK), ESSEM member
Dr. Mehmet Gran (TK), ISCH member
Prof. Giuseppe Scarascia-Mugnozza (IT), FPS member Dr. John Williams (FR), FA member
Dr. Marc Heppener (ESF), Dir. of Science & Strategy Development
Dr. Matthias Haury (COST), Head of Science Operations
RESCUE Quality Reference Group (QRG) set up to ensure the optimal quality and impact ofthe RESCUE activities and outputs
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RESCUE membership (SSC, WGs, QRG)
disciplinary distribution (as of June 2010)
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18%
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Geosciences Environmental sciences
Social sciences Humanities
Technological sciences Foresight
Humanities
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In cooperation with: ICSU, ISSC, GCR programmes & ESSP, European
Alliance for GCR, science funding and performing agencies, EC,
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Stakeholders
Conference
Integration
Workshop
RESCUE general timeline
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Governance
setup
Alignment
Workshop
Launching
Conference
Thematic
Activities
Sept. 2009 Sept. 2009
Nov. 2010
Report
Preparation
Sept. 2010
May 2011
Dissemination
& Monitoring
summer 2011
SSC setup
& meetingSSC + QRG
meeting
SSC // QRG
meetings
External Reviews
// Stakeholders
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WG New, emerging and neglected scientific
questions in RESCUE remit Articulate scientific issues related to GlobalChange Research, esp. the society-driven ones
Cooperation with ICSU Grand Challenges in Global SustainabilityResearch and ISSC, and linked to the Belmont Challenge Forum
- internal Delphi consultation on new science questions;
- survey of the strategies developed by key stakeholders;
- dedicated Task Force on Science Questions with a human focus;
- new dedicated activities to be organised with major actors.
1. Identify emerging, new or neglected areas;
2. Develop research & institutional recommendations & governance
priorities for conducting the next generation of global change
research;3. Propose ideas for funding and support mechanisms as incentives
to interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research projects in
Europe within a global context.
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ICSU Grand Challenges in Global Sustainability Research
Belmont Challenge forum to deliver knowledge to support
human action and adaptation to regional environmental change
RESCUE foresight mission recommendations & implementation
integration of multiple factors existing in Europe: nature-culture;
post-normal research; geographical; political, societal dimensions;
disciplinary culture; fragmentation and creativity; mission-
oriented delivery;
examine, test and integrate specific science questions and hot
topics, especially with a driving human focus and Europe-relevant
recommendations & roadmap for implementation
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WG Collaboration between the natural,
social and human sciences in GCR Develop a strategic vision to break down
individual & institutional barriers that hampercollaboration between scientific disciplines
1. Balance between classical discipline-based research and inter-disciplinary research?
2. Trigger effective and fruitful collaboration at the interface
between different fields?
3. Identify and mobilise disciplinary scientists, funding agencies
and stakeholders to participate and contribute to this joint effort
right from the start?
4. Good practices to be promoted between European research
organisations to support the next generation of GCR activities?
Examples of key topics:
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Research Collaboration considered in term of: Practice (what is it, are we doing, need to do?)
Programming (How and what to fund)
Balance (between classic mono-disciplines & scalars involved)
Preliminary WG recommendationsAgree on definitions of inter/trans/cross-disciplinarity;
Define a Radically Inter and Trans-disciplinary
Environments(RITE) model for promoting European GCR;
Identify research areas where interdisciplinarity adds value andareas where mono-disciplinary expertise alone is needed;
Strengthen the critical role of research councils in defining
research areas where marked interdisciplinarity is required;
Build on differences that emerge from different disciplinary
perspectives.
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Tourism, ICT
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
Urban development
Environment
Social cohesion
Coping with change
Cultural acceptance
Media
Heritage
Social Reference
System
Human Reference
System
Natural Reference
System
Environmental
Reference System
Need a convergence of Reference Systems systems approach
Keywords between the
systems need review
A systems approach is not always an interdisciplinary approach!
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WG Requirements for research
methodologies and data GCR crucially depends on observing & monitoringmany complex, natural, social & human processes,
and on conceptualising /modelling them at different
space & time scales
1. Identify major strengths and weaknesses, knowledge gaps,
alternatives or extensions, and needs for innovation inmethodologies, observations, databases and integration for
interdisciplinary GCR and global assessments, across many scales;
2. Assess the state of integration of the human component and in
particular the soft aspects such as perceptions and beliefs,
situated knowledge;
3. Develop a list of priority actions to improve the current situation
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Overcome the lack of social engagement / participatory
processes in GEC research and understanding
Establish global (multi-level) governance, through foresight
studies, robust decision making approaches, and adequateinstitutional design for sustainability governance
Assessing environmental and social vulnerability, through long-
term research for different GEC scenarios, and development of
responsive strategies to disaster risk
GCR challenges characteristics that make them not easilyamenable to policy solutions and how can innovation in dataand methods support identification and implementationsustainable policy solutions?
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Support long-term studies change funding structure (database
infrastructure, action research programmes)
Promote research institutions with integrated approaches
Consider data, information, knowledge-base as common pool
resource, for wide-ranging comparative case-study analyses
Improve access to, interoperability and comparability of large
data sets
Develop tools/methods for monitoring change and embed them
in societal context (e.g., evolutionary perspectives on change)
How to manage system transitions to integrated, sustainabilitygovernance? What data and methods are required to understandsuch transition processes and support their management?
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WG Towards a revolution in education
and capacity building In education as in science related to GEC, the
dualism of nature and culture is a great challenge forthe next generation of researchers and citizens
1. Responses to environmental and social challenges require new
and visionary approaches to interdisciplinary science, more than a
new type of global change curriculum with disciplinary coursesfrom the natural, social and human sciences.
2. Design, test, evaluate and diffuse a learning-by-doing process to
develop a vision for a revolution in education system and in
capacity building, to overcome current academic division of work,especially in Europe.
3. Requires transformational changes, incentives and new
approaches at the individual and institutional levels to enhance
capacities to understand complex and interacting processes such
as those study in GCR.
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Visioning the Education / Capacity Revolution
The Goal: To change the way we think, and in doing so, change
our capacity to learn and act.
The Problem: The emergence of new, potentially powerful
capabilities for learning and acting exists alongside evidence
that existing capacities to learn and act are inadequate, even
dysfunctional to the point of being dangerous.
The Challenge: Can we imagine changes in the conditions of
change?
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Change of perspective needed!
It is not just about changing the system, but also about changing
the way of looking at the system of education and capacity
building by those with the power to make the changes happen
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Key Factors
1: Education for social transformation
2: Multi-dimensionalizing GEC issues
3: An open future
4: Education for political change
Blind spots?
We are often stuck in the ideology of a single truth. We isolate
ourselves from those parts of reality that dont fit our ideology.
... The picture of the whole you see should include yourself as
part of the system you are trying to fix.
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WG Interface between science and policy,
communication and outreachor Opening science for a knowledge democracy
Develop good practices, scientific consensus andtargets to be fed into research policy development for
the benefit of policy makers and other stakeholders
Future of knowledge systems: open; diverse; problem-oriented;
implementation-oriented; transformative; responsible; accountable
Work domains:
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Organising and performing science Incentives for stakeholders, and metrics
Learning and feedbacks Demand for, production and use of knowledge Processes of engagement and accountability New challenges, new problems and tensions Redistribution of responsibility, power and
authority
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Vision RD4SD Concept
Analysis of how research systems (i.e. organisations,
programmes and policies) are responsive to sustainability
requirements.
Proposals for monitoring and enhancing this response.
Iterative, structured dialogue between R&D policy makers,
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8-9 Dec. 2010: Integration Workshop (Antwerp)
mid March 2011 : RESCUE Report first draft
early April 2011: RESCUE Report second draft
late April 2011: RESCUE Report third draft16-17 May 2011: Stakeholders Conference (Brussels)
late May 2011: Report + Science Policy Briefing (SPB) final draft
Late June 2011: Report launching event (Brussels)
Fall 2011: SPB - launching event (location tbc)
2011-2012: continuous monitoring the implementation of RESCUE
recommendations and their impacts
questions, comments, inputs are most welcome.Contact: [email protected]
RESCUENextSteps
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Forward Looks enable Europes scientific community, in interaction
with policy makers, to develop mid- to long-term views and analyses
of future research developments with the aim of defining research
agendas on national and European level.
European Science Foundation (ESF)
Dr. Bernard Avril
Life, Earth & Environmental Sciences (LESC)
Email: [email protected]; Website: www.esf.org/rescue
European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST)
Dr. Carine Petit
Earth System Science & Environmental Management (ESSEM)
Email: [email protected]
ESF-COST Frontier of Science initiative
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General Forward Look Goals
Forward Looks provide medium to long-termauthoritative visions on science perspectives in
broad areas of research bringing together ESF
Member Organisations, other research institutions
and the scientific community, in creative interaction.
Forward Look reports and other
outputs such as Science Policy
Briefings assist policy makers andresearchers in setting priorities and
in defining and implementing
optimal research agendas.
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Typical Forward Look Design
State-of-the-Art review Current state of research in the area and highlights of the major advances
in the last years
Scientific challenges Impact of those advances on the research agenda
Indication of major knowledge gaps and potential hot topics
Identification of European strength and weakness
Vision Presentation of a vision with major goals that could provide directions for
research in the medium and long term time frame
Implementation plan (in terms of infrastructure, institutional innovation,
human resources, governance)
Impact Monitoring and Implementation Follow-up Key stakeholders likely to play a key role in the implementation
Targeted recommendations
Follow-up mechanism to ensure delivery and avoid risks
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Typical Forward Looks Format
Activities include preparatory study/expert groups,
high level overview papers, workshops and meetings
Main event: high-visibility conference
Outputs: Policy Briefings, major reports,
action plans
Scientific Steering Committee: 8-12 p.
Lead time: 12-18 months
Average budget: 120-240 k
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