In the framework of the analytical work of the KORANET project, the Austrian Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI) and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) organised jointly a workshop on cooperation policy foresight in Vienna on 7 and 8 June 2010.

During the first day of the event, European and Korean experts provided insights into existing cooperation patterns between Korea and the EU and analytical results of KORANET have been presented to a wider audience of stakeholders.

On the second day, working sessions have been organised to help identify the drivers that shape the future S&T cooperation between the EU and Korea.

The driver workshop has been moderated by Rafael Popper (Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, University of Manchester). 

The purpose of the exercise was to take a first step towards developing a joint foresight-based framework to identify and elaborate the future core areas of S&T and competence network cooperation between the EU and South Korea.

Based on the results and inputs of these two days a policy paper that will focus on gaps, overlaps and opportunities in view of the existing programmes and initiatives towards multilateral approaches and a joint action plan defining concrete joint activities concerning sustainable joint funding measure of KORANET beyond the pilot joint call will be prepared.