Dr Rafael Popper
Principal Scientist (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd)
Innovation Director & CEO (Futures Diamond Ltd)Rafael Popper's contributions to iKnow
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Dr Popper has worked as expert or consultant for the European Commission, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), World Bank, United Nations Economic and Social Council, UN-REDD, among others. He has also been Director of iKnow; Leader of the Mapping activities of the European Foresight Platform (EFP) and Principal Investigator of MIoIR Horizon Scanning activities in the Centre for Workforce Intelligence (CfWI).
Dr Popper has been Scientific Coordinator and Principal Investigator in several European Union funded foresight initiatives and his main areas of work include: ‘foresight’ as an instrument of policy, the development of foresight and horizon scanning methodology, the design of forward-looking activities and their evaluation. He has been member of the European Commission’s Expert Group on Rationales for the European Research Area and other foresight advisory boards.
As for his teaching, Rafael has been Co-Director of postgraduate courses on foresight at the University of Manchester and Co-Director of Executive Education courses for Foresight organisers, sponsors and practitioners. He has been guest lecturer in many European and Latin American countries and he has designed and delivered short courses and keynote speeches for a large variety of audiences in the public, private and academic sectors.
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• ICT - Information & communication technologies
• Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
• Health
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ACTIVITIES AND AREAS OF INTEREST
Grand Challenges | Social cohesion and diversity
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This ERA Toolkit on “Applications of wild cards and weak signals to the grand challenges and thematic priorities of the European Research Area” aims to be a source of reference and i... -
This synthesis report describes key findings of the iKnow foresight and horizon scanning (FHS) activities conducted at the national level in five countries (Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Isr... -
This Policy Alerts report provides a unique compendium of the use of Wild Cards and Weak Signals (WI-WE) to inform science and innovation research policy. Section 2 provides an overview of the m... -
This interview report provides a fascinating compendium of insights from 66 experts on STI, ERA and FHS issues. Section 2 provides an overview of the nature of WI-WE issues discussed in the inte... -
The iKnow conference will present the new methods and tools developed by iKnow to support foresight, horizon scanning and forward-looking ac... - 5529 days ago1040 views
A highly infectious and lethal virus appears and spreads out around the world fast due to the high mobility of the world population. The number of casualties is high and rises constantly, leading to massive social problems. The...
Conventional market systems based on price and demand, are suddenly giving way to online networks for supply, demand and the all-important ‘choice editing’. Half the FTSE firms lose half their value and are bought by new We...
Major EU state elects neo fascist leader
The existence of political parties with far-right agendas is not a new feature in European politics. So what is really ‘wild’ or surprising in this event is the achievement of sufficient political dominance for a major EU s...
Elderly people are back to education, actively organise themselves and initiate a political party for the elderly which lead them back in power.
A major EU power centre (e.g. Rome) is devastated by an ear ...
A research that warned how vulnerable EU is to natural hazards and how poor its mitigation strategy was neglected and when earthquake shook Rome the world was in shock. Three-fourth of the city was destroyed and Vatican is now ...
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Growing interest in role of media in public attitudes to EU ...
Growing interest in role of media in public attitudes to EU politics
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Growing interests in gender politics and anti-discrimination ...
Growing problems involving intersection of gender politics and anti-discrimination rules concerning ethnic minorities. (1) Separate regimes of law for different ethnic groups, hugely extending current frameworks permitting som...
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Growing interest in post-conflict cultural identity
Several European sites of great historical and cultural interest become hotly contested in terms of their “ownership” and historical meaning – cultural tourists and pilgrims are increasingly seen as reviving past conflict...
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