FORESIGHTERS · Future ORiEnted Skills, Innovation for Governance for Health, Technology, EneRgy, citieS and creativity

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Project objective

The increasingly complex, unpredictable and volatile nature of major social challenge highlight the need for new ways of anticipating, conceptualizing and managing the future. This applies to every economic sector, field of public policy, academic discipline and area of human endeavour. This also calls for new approaches to knowledge generation that require new skills and more integrated, inter-disciplinary methods for problem solving. The proposed FORESIGHTERS programme of internationally-leading research and training at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) will confront such challenges by building on the University’s strong record of inter-disciplinary research, culture of recognizing diversity and institutional commitment to sustainability. FORESIGHTERS will recruit 20 international Early-Stage Researchers (ESRs) on 42-month contracts to work collaboratively with a wide range on non-academic partners to address a wide range of pressing social, environmental, cultural and economic challenges. Working across research themes of Health, Technology, Energy, Future Cities, and Creativity, the ESRs will be provided with an innovative training programme which will nurture skills for (a) understanding the future (including foresight, systems thinking, citizen engagement, innovation management, among others), (b) practices of sustainable research, (c) respecting equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and (d) high level research capabilities. Working with inter-disciplinary supervisory teams on research projects co-designed with inter-sectoral research partners and with opportunities for research-related secondment, FORESIGHTERS will deliver high impact research and ESRs well placed to become future research leaders. Through its adoption of innovative approaches to research training, knowledge exchange and embedding of sustainability and EDI in recruitment and training processes, it will also improve future institutional performance.

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Participants

• THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST · BELFASTCoordinatorUnited Kingdom
• ARTS COUNCIL OF NORTHERN IRELAND · BELFASTUnited Kingdom
• BELFAST CITY COUNCIL · BELFASTUnited Kingdom
• Bamford Bus Company Limited (trading as Wrightbus) · BallymenaUnited Kingdom
• Belfast Healthy Cities Project Limited · BelfastUnited Kingdom
• Community Places (NI) · BelfastUnited Kingdom
• Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment · DUBLINIreland
• EastSide Greenways · BelfastUnited Kingdom
• FFCC Ltd · ExeterUnited Kingdom
• FuturEnergy Ireland Development DAC · DublinIreland
• KEA EUROPEAN AFFAIRS · Bruxelles / BrusselBelgium
• LOUGHS AGENCY (FCILC) · LondonderryUnited Kingdom
• NORTHERN IRELAND WATER LIMITED · BELFASTUnited Kingdom
• NPL MANAGEMENT LIMITED · MIDDLESEXUnited Kingdom
• National Economic and Social Council · Dublin 1Ireland
• Northern Ireland Environment Link · BelfastUnited Kingdom
• Parkinson's Ireland · DublinIreland
• SONI LIMITED · BELFASTUnited Kingdom
• Source Galileo Ireland Limited · DublinIreland
• The Paul Hogarth Company Limited · South QueensferryUnited Kingdom
• Theatre and Dance NI · BelfastUnited Kingdom
• ULSTER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY LIMITED · BELFASTUnited Kingdom
• UNITED KINGDOM RESEARCH AND INNOVATION · SWINDONUnited Kingdom
• northern ireland housing executive · BelfastUnited Kingdom

Links

• View on CORDIS
• DOI: 10.3030/101261888
• https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/documents/downloadPublic?documentIds=080166e52dac3ca2&appId=PPGMS