Workplan

The project has nine interconnected WorkPackages:

To manage the overall project and to ensure that deliverables are of high scientific quality, well coordinated and delivered to the Commission in time and within the budget line.
To provide for co-ordination, i.e. to provide an environment conducive to good, transparent and creative co-operation between project partners, and to provide for quality and risk management.
To asses the overall results and impact of the project.

To obtain broad and deep insights into the relevant academic and professional literature
To prepare the research design, hypotheses, conceptual frameworks, workshop and survey structures
To contribute to the broader academic and professional literature when completing the project

To locate and classify WI-WE that are critically relevant to ERA dimensions
To populate the WI-WE Bank (see WP8)
To generate a series of informative Bulletins to serve as inputs for policy recommendations
To provide general intelligence for the ERA policy and research communities

To generate further wild cards based around an understanding of the ERA
To understand how people (at EU and International levels) perceive and use WI-WE

To gather data systematically on expected national and regional impacts of WI-WE
To take account of regional and national differences and enable country comparisons
To analyse the resulting WI-WE an identify linkages with the six ERA dimensions

To gain insights and input to the subsequent working packages as well as feedback on interim results gained from cross-national and national surveys
To control the quality and relevance of the national case studies template
To disseminate the activities and results of the project to the interested community within four EU countries and one associate country and key European stakeholders.
To pilot innovative multi-method approaches to identify and analyse WI-WE

To develop an in-depth understanding of how WI-WE relate to national and regional policy issues, in particular those related to the six ERA dimensions
To understand the relative importance of WI-WE discussed through the life of the project – explicitly including policy measures and framework conditions – and the internationalisation processes over time

To establish web-based tools that will go beyond simply disseminating and delivering our results in an electronic interactive format. These tools will go beyond the simple databases of trends, wild cards and weak signals that are available (e.g. the UK Horizon Scanning Programme)
To provide environments for user communities to go about their own WI-WE analysis
To feed methodological and substantive conclusions into an accumulating pool of analysis
To set the whole WI-WE topic on a much firmer foundation, and help offset the current biases of Foresight exercises

To disseminate and interconnect results of the iKnow project. The dissemination will target the policy and research communities concerned both with ERA and with Foresight
To provide feedback to project members on how the various elements of their work can be most usefully synthesised and organised for user and practitioner communities
To render the substantive work undertaken in the project useful for policymaking purposes, in particular by developing policy briefings for ERA decision-makers and participants
To render the conceptual and methodological work undertaken in the project useful for those supporting policymaking purposes, in Foresight related communities and elsewhere

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