FUTURESILIENCE Launch Webinar
Multiple, overlapping, and interconnected crises have become increasingly frequent over the last two decades. This has raised the interest in resilience, testing the capacities of different stakeholders to cope, adapt and build back better. The FUTURESILIENCE project aims to strengthen European economic and social resilience through an enhanced ability to quickly respond to future crises. This will be accomplished by facilitating the fast and effective use of policy relevant research and innovation (R&I) findings through 10 pilot cases called 'Future Resilience Labs'. During the experimentation, multiple stakeholders will discuss in a co-creation environment and test evidence-based strategies tailored to their specific context and matching their local needs. This webinar is the official public launch of the FUTURESILIENCE Project. This event will be an open dialogue between experts in the fields of resilience, R&I policy and future studies, who will discuss about key topics underpinning the conceptual and methodological basis of the project. In particular they will explore the role of R&I and anticipatory governance in fostering resilience.
Agenda
Welcome and Introduction:
Alasdair Reid and Matias Barberis, EFIS Centre, FUTURESILIENCE Coordination
Session1: The role of R&I in fostering resilience
- Jörgen Sparf, NTNU Social Research “Resilience and crisis”
- Florian Roth, ZHAW Centre for Corporate Responsibility – “R&I and Resilience”
- Michal Miedzinski, Joint Research Centre “Place-based R&I policies”
Session 2: Anticipatory resilience
- Robin Bourgeois, CIRAD
- Kerstin Cuhls, Fraunhofer ISI
- Lieve Van Woensel, Foresight Expert