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TECHNOLOGY FORESIGHT FINAL CONFERENCE – NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR BULGARIA On May 27, 2004 ARC Fund organized an international conference titled Technology Foresight – New Opportunities for Bulgaria which marked the concluding phase of the ForeTech project. One of the primary objectives of the ForeTech initiative for Technology and Innovation Foresight in Bulgaria and Romania was to introduce foresight as a contemporary policy making tool in the two countries. The ForeTech project was supported by the Fifth Framework Programme (FP5) and its pilot initiatives in Bulgaria were funded by the German Agency for Technical Cooperation GTZ in Bulgaria. The main objective of the conference was to benchmark the Bulgarian experience in applying the foresight methodology in two pilot areas - eGovernment and Biotechnologies - against that of a number of EU countries, and to present the outcomes of the pilot implementation of foresight in the two target areas. The conference brought together leading foresight experts from
the UK, foresight practitioners from Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Romania,
high-level representatives of Bulgaria government agencies (e.g. Agency for
Economic Analyses and Forecasting, Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Science
and Education, Ministry of Transport and Communications, Ministry of Agriculture
and Forestry), and stakeholders from the business and academic communities,
and mass media.
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