EUROPEAN FORCO-PRÉCANET PROJECT (2002-2005)

CRITERIA FOR ACTION

(EgoCreaNet –University of Florence Italy)

1. Overall objective and criteria in preparing new significance Actions of innovation for implementing European Knowledge Economy.

à During the research on educational innovation on LEONARDO FORCOPRECANET Project , EGOCREANET focused the main objective in the need to create a community action program (named Open Network For New Science // ON-NS) , in a way that this multi-actorial cluster, would be co- organised as a mixture of transdisciplinary backgrunds , in a way that it will be useful to generate a deep impact on intellectual employment and

This overal obiective is a conseguence of the observation and convinction of EGOCREANET; " the Knowledge Economy competitiveness is a question of innovative scientific culture and creative management.

à The" virtual dynamo of innovation" is based on actions based on implementing a dissemination of "Mental Change" .As a matter of facts at the heart of Knowledge Economy innovation is the extension and the popularization of the technological and scientific progress at social level in a way that European Knowledge Society can develop social innovation within high consciousness and prosperity.

2. – ACTIONS engaged by EGOCREANET .

• i) - Co-organization of a cluster of creative persons (ON-NS EGOCREANET) , able to break out the cultural resistance to change by means opening a dialog on the critical factors of new competitivity based on the Knowledge Economy.
• ii) - Co-organization od an "VIRTUAL INTERNATIONAL AGENCY" , (EGOCREANET-VIA) aiming to realize and improve an action program about sustuaining the success of Knovledge Economy through an innovative Knowledge Management on issues connecting Science & Society in a long-life interattive education system , based on an synergic integration of creative ideas in science, especially in Life Sciences, with the best practices of Information Technology of Communication.
• iii)- Developing original methods and for promotion creativity by means knowledge sharing among centers of Research end Industry ( especially SME’s) , and harvesting and disseminating best practices of innovation easily downloadable from the internet.

C) - Conclusion: EGOCREANET, woking on the basis of those overall obiectives and actions, recently proposes to the "TUSCANY REGION" , to create a new "International Agency for Creative Knowledge Development" aiming stimulate the demand of scientific and cultural innovation and favouring to open people minds forward to new ways of thinking to the future development and long term sustainability of Europoean Knowledge Ecomomy .