1. SPIDER Project Increasing regional competitiveness through futures research methods Wallonia in 2020: Future Issues, Future Citizens Expert workshop, Brussels, January 27, 2005 Philippe Destatte & Pascale Van Doren Institut Jules-Destrée

2. Background to the SPIDER foresight analysis in Wallonia

3. Development of culture foresight in Wallonia (1) 1985-1988 : La Wallonie au futur, Vers un nouveau paradigme 1988-1994 : La Wallonie au futur, Le défi de lÉducation 1994-1996 : La Wallonie au futur, Quelles stratégies pour lemploi ? 1996-2000 : La Wallonie au futur, Sortir du XXème siècle : évaluation, innovation, prospective 1985…paradigm change, passage to a cognitive society and an intentional break with the idea of decline, the educational challenge, competitiveness and employment, innovation, foresight and evaluation…2000

4. 1999 : Création de la Société wallonne de lÉvaluation et de la Prospective 2000 : Colloque Prospective et développement régional 2000-2004 : Mission Prospective Wallonie 21 2001-2004 : La Wallonie au futur : Wallonie 2020 2002- : Province de Luxembourg 2010 Province de Liège 2020 Le Pays de Herve au futur Zukunftsbild / Vision 2020 Grande Région ProspEnWal 4 X 4 pour entreprendre 2003 : Blueprint for Foresight Actions in the Regions Création de lIWEPS 2004 : Régions de la Connaissance (SPIDER, METAFORESIGHT) Charleroi 2020 Development of culture foresight in Wallonia (2) 2000…From Foresight to new Governances and Knowledge Regions…

5. Exploratory foresight studies as the groundwork for a strategic vision involving the actors Exercise of normative foresight, associating company directors, experts and public deciders Exercise of normative foresight to include citizen participation starting with the actors The State Civil Society The Private sector SPIDER knowledge initial base (1)

6. SPIDER knowledge initial base (2) Competitive positioning of Wallonia in the framework of the implementation of the Lisbon strategies in the EU regions (Direction Générale de lEconomie et de lEmploi, July 2004) - Overview of the performances in the Walloon Region (competitiveness and attractiveness); - Indicators available at regional level for which a comparison at European level is possible; - Matter for thought about the vision and policies to be developed and implemented at Walloon level to ensure the Region's contribution to the realisation of Lisbon objectives; - Important base for the factual data to the more qualitative complementary foresight exercises

7. Public Sector Civil Society Private Sector A Region of Knowledge, Learning and Creativity SPIDER knowledge development base The Regional Foresight College : A new process of collective learning ONGOING FORUM TO RENEW OUR SOCIETAL MODEL DATAR Millenium Project EC Foresight Initiatives…

8. Fields of actions for the positioning of Wallonia in the Regions of Knowledge : Some guidelines for the construction of a Knowledge Region

9. ProspEnWal Starting from the acquis of the foresight exercises conducted in Wallonia

10. Strategic environment for foresight exercises in Wallonia The Society of Knowledge (Lisbon 2010) Learning and Creative Region (2020) Updated Contract for the Future 1999-2009

11. Action principles of Contract for Future -constant concern for working conditions and the quality of life; -equal opportunities; -administrative simplification in all fields and modernisation of the administration; -constant search for total quality; -systematic showcasing of Wallonia's success stories; -networking of all actors; -culture of evaluation; -concentration of initiatives and means; - mobility policy, socially oriented and respectful of the environment; -need of systematic communication of public measures effects; -administrations bridging; -development of foresight as a priority tool to support governance; -identification of cooperation procedures between Walloon Region and Wallonia-Brussels Community. Walloon Government, February 2002 and May 2004

12. CONTRACTFORFUTURECONTRACTFORFUTURE KNOWLEDGEREGIONKNOWLEDGEREGION Foresight Mission Wallonia 21 (MPW21) Wallonia 2020 WALLONIAWALLONIA 1 2 3 4 5 7 LISBONLISBON 8 Foresight and Region of Knowledge for Wallonia what vision(s)? Fields of change challenges TENDENCIESTENDENCIES &ISSUES&ISSUES 6 Entreprise Foresight

13. Towards a Region of Knowledge in Wallonia Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin OECD, Lisbon 2003 Social capitalisation Reinforcement of regional interests European contracting Renewal of the mechanisms of learning Professionalisation of the networks Optimal use of governance in a complex system Internationalisation Measure of performance in the knowledge society

14. How to go further in the Knowledge Region comprehension and building?

15. 1.The creativity of the territories as a vector of transition towards Regions of Knowledge? Tolerance, Creativity and Economic Growth Richard FLORIDA & Irène TINAGLI, Europe in the Creative Age, Février 2004.

16. 1900 19502000 15 % 20 % 25 % 30 % 1980 1930 Nombre of workers in the creativity sector in industrialized countries Richard Florida 2002 2020

17. 2. Inadequacy of the traditional concepts in the transition towards the Knowedge Society and the research into new tools to evaluate potentials? What is valuable, is information sorted out, organised into a hierarchy, articulated with other information to form knowledge André-Yves PORTNOFF & Véronique LAMBLIN, 2003

18. Thank you ! Philippe Destatte Pascale Van Doren destatte.ph@destree.org vandoren.pascale@destree.org