Participant involvement

Sponsoring participants

The aim of the project is to provide an independent forum where all participants can discuss on neutral ground and as equal partners. The project organisers explicitly intend that the forum should not be a place for either lobbying or policy making, but for sharing and exploring stakeholder views.

To set up this forum, we are inviting a limited number of participating organisations to take a sponsorship role in order to make this event come true. Please contact us for the modalities to become a sponsor and to participate. It is the organiser’s intention to have at least one sponsor of each of the 5 major industries concerned. In return these organisations may participate with up to 3 representatives in the scenario planning workshops.

Apart from gaining genuine insights into future issues possibly relevant to the organisation and/or its clients/members, the sponsoring organisations will also benefit from:

• The opportunity to have a one day presentation and discussion of the scenario work within the organisation and/or with a limited number of its clients/members. This will allow each organisation to raise specific questions on the impact and consequences as well as extend the number of people being exposed and immersed in these scenario worlds. Any travel costs will be charged separately.
• Being seen as a proactive player and as a catalyst for creating visions on the role of agriculture as provider of food and energy in the world. This will be emphasised on the website, in all publication following the completion and any public promotion of the results
• Enhanced international visibility in the renewable resource debate through broad distribution of the results via a summary brochure of the scenarios and an internet site
• High level interaction with senior representatives of stakeholder groups and experts who are not part of the normal organisation’s contact network
• Having the opportunity to participate in more than one group when the various scenarios are developed in parallel by several break-out sessions
• Advising and recommending the selection of other participants and experts
• Possibility to create a nucleus of a new interdisciplinary team on this issue to proceed in the wake of the project

Non-sponsoring participants

In addition a wide range of other essential stakeholders, many of which would not be in a position to be sponsoring this project, will be invited to contribute to the debate. The aim is to have at least most, if not all, relevant stakeholders to be represented in the process, either directly through the presence of a leading organisation or indirectly through associations or other umbrella organisations. This will typically be the case for consumer representations and agricultural communities.