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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

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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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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

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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

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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

RESCUE Next Steps

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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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