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The Euro-Latin Foresight Network: SELF-RULE
Foresight Brief No. 066
Authors: Sponsors: Type: Organizers: Rafael Popper, rafael.popper@manchester.ac.uk, Yuli Villarroel, yulivilla@yahoo.com European Commission, National Universities International network implementing Euro-Latin research, training and mobility in the field of foresight.SELF-RULE Coordinators (PREST & UNEFM), Members (in Europe: PREST, FFRC, U-ALICANTE and UNI-CORVINUS; in Latin America: UNEFM, UNEFA, UFRJ, ULIMA, UMOLINA, UNI, PUCP and UNIVALLE) and Partners (4-SIGHT-GROUP, DETRANS STUDIO, COLCIENCIAS and CGEE). 2005+ Budget: n/a Time Horizon: n/a

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Purpose
SELF-RULE (Strategic European and Latin American Foresight for Research and UniversityLearning Exchange) is an academic network for mutually-beneficial exchange of foresight knowledge, tools and experiences between the European Union and Latin America. SELF-RULE aims to build a sustainable foresight capacity in the member institutions by promoting and disseminating foresight initiatives and practices.

Promoting Foresight Research and Development in Europe and Latin America
SELF-RULEis an academic Foresight network operating in eight countries - Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Finland, Hungary, Spain and UK. While each country is represented by one academic institution, other national members can also be involved. The Universidad Nacional Experimental Francisco de Miranda (UNEFM) in Venezuela does the administrative coordination. However, the Scientific Coordination islead by PREST together with the General Coordinator of the Network. The brief draws primarily on SELF-RULE activities, which are partly financed by the European Commission’s ALFA Programme under the Cooperation for the Scientific and Technical Training Programme (Project Nº II-0468-FA-FCDFI).

In doing so, the network aims to promote a joint and selfsustained long-term cooperation agenda throughacademic research, training and mobility programmes. The three primary objectives of the network are: • To build sustainable foresight capacities in Europe and Latin America, • To exchange foresight knowledge, tools and experiences, • To articulate academic institutions with other stakeholders of the regional innovation systems. Having this in mind, the scientific coordination designed thenetwork’s activities around two complementary pillars: • Foresight knowledge transfer and exchange • Foresight research

The overall mission of SELF-RULE is to foster cooperation, integration, innovation and exchange of foresight experiences between Latin America and Europe.

Foresight knowledge transfer and exchange is carried out with the support of several technological platforms developed by networkPartners (4-SIGHT-GROUP and Detrans Studio) with the contributions of the EC and network Members. Among these are:

The EFMN is financed by the European Commission DG Research. It is part of a series of initiatives intended to provide a ‘Knowledge Sharing Platform’ for policy makers in the European Union. More information on the EFMN and on the Knowledge Sharing Platform is provided atWWW.EFMN.INFO

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Mobility Programme - This programme provides 24 scholarships for travel and living expenses for the mobility of researchers. E-Learning Space - This space includes videos, conferences and presentations, thus providing e-training platform. Virtual Mapping - This platform allows Latin Americanmembers to map foresight experiences in Spanish. It is based on a contextualized version of EFMN Dynamo Platform. Virtual Library - The library allows members to share teaching material, reports and network related documents. Virtual Forum - The forum provides a common space for discussions and feedback among members. Virtual Voting - The voting/polling system is used to gather opinions about...