The newsletter "Foresighting Europe" is prepared by the Science and Technology Foresight Unit of DG Research. It carries out its mission within Directorate K ‘Social Sciences and Humanities; Foresight’, in co-operation with the JRC/IPTS as well as national and international Foresight institutions:

• Promoting co-operation in European Foresight
• Monitoring and exploiting Foresight, informing European research policy developments and contributing to policy thinking in DG Research
• Implementing S&T Foresight activities under the ‘Support for the coherent development of S&T policies’ in FP6
• Promoting Foresight dissemination and experience sharing
• Preparing Foresight activities in FP7
• Preparing the Outlook Foresight Report for 2006

It also promotes the dissemination of results and experience-sharing on the basis of the activities that have been carried out:

• Information on the foresight activities of DG Research: http://cordis.europa.eu.int/foresight/
• Information on STRATA: http://www.cordis.lu/improving/strata/strata.htm
• Information on DG Research’s initiatives:
  http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/index_en.html
• Information on the JRC/IPTS’s activities: http://www.jrc.es/welcome.html

You can contact the Science and Technology Foresight Unit:

• Phone: +32 2 29 50879
• Fax: +32 2 2958865
• Head of unit: werner.wobbe@ec.europa.eu.int
• Newsletter editor: marie-christine.brichard@ec.europa.eu.int