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Synopsis: Funding: Funding organizations:

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This consultation process involved eighteen funding organizations fromeight European countries aswell as over 400 participantswho represented relevant stakeholder groups, most notably leading researchers and industrialists.

Because the participating funding organizations have evolved through path-dependent processes that reflect the characteristics of their respective national innovation systems,

The funding organizations have different priorities for research themes and resource allocation; they also operate subject to different regulatory and institutional constraints that limit

The resulting information helps funding organizations in the formulation of their own research agendas, clarifies linkages between national and European agendas,

Its goal is to deepen the collaboration between the European funding organizations in the field of wood material science in order to coordinate the use of research funds,

The plans to establish an international research program meant that the funding organizations had to define focal research themes for European RTD collaboration.

The process management consisted of the representatives from funding organizations, the national coordinators and the project team:

Representatives from funding organizations were targeted the client of the consultation process. The design of the consultation process was presented

and synthesize results to support the work of funding organizations in the formulation of calls for proposals. 3. 2. 2. Phases of the consultation process The process design relied on earlier experiences form cyclic foresight processes 3, 17.

/workshop Mid-february,‘06 6. A one-day workshop for funding organizations Representatives from funding organizations End of March‘

Based on the results of the last workshop for funding organizations, three working groups were formed such that each consisted of funding organizations with shared interests in the topic of the working group.

and presented to the participants who were invited then to discuss them (approx. 1 h). 3. 2. 2. 6. Workshop for funding organizations.

Based on the results from all preceding phases, a workshop for funding organizations was organized at the end of March 2006 to examine these results and, more specifically,

to form working groups of funding organizations who would collaborate towards the development of calls for proposals covering those research sub-areas that they were interested in funding.

Practically all funding organizations in Woodwisdom-Net attended this workshop. Before the workshop, all results from earlier activities were compiled

Thus, the funding organizations could see how the results based on the representatives of their own country may have differed from those of all expert assessments.

the workshop participants (and thus funding organizations) were divided into a three working groups with shared interest (approx 1. 5 h). These working groups,

Another benefit is that the funding organizations can define the priorities based on a realistic understanding of what issues researchers are keen on pursuing

Even funding organizations are faced with a learning challenges, because bottom up processes differ considerably from top down planning processes in which funding organizations are in a position to control the agenda:

for example, bottom up processes may produce results that cast doubt on previously established priorities, and possibly even undermine the perceived autonomy of funding organizations.

The promising experiences from thewoodwisdom-Net consultation process, together with those from related processes for the Forest-Based Sector Technology platform 3, suggest that further work on the development of consultation processes within European coordination

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