This pioneer initiative was personally endorsed by José Manuel Durão Barroso. It was an initiative by the Centre for European Studies (CES), the official think thank of the European People’s Party, funded by the European parliament and aimed at bringing policy-making to the citizens by stimulating debate from the ground-up. TellBarroso.eu sought to engage European citizens with the question: “What areas affecting your daily life should the EU focus its energies on?”
With over 150.000 participants from more than 40 countries in six languages, the final results included 12.040 proposals, 124.154 proposal evaluations and 578.257 proposal views. The initiative’s advertisement gained 130.887.694 impressions in social media and Google still finds about 7.800 web pages mentioning the initiative. The data is particularly valuable as it highlighted both individuals’ queries and group queries in quantifiable cross-sections of society."
Tomi Huhtanen, Director, The Center for European Studies (CES)
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CERN Atlas Experiment participated their staff from 34 countries to the risks analysis of commissioning of the new particle accelarator, an unique project never done before, using Fountain Park’s virtual brainstorming method.
By complementing our risk analysis with Fountain Park’s virtual brainstorming method, we identified completely new types of risks associated with attitude, incomplete knowledge diffusion and human error, which we had not been able to take into account at all. The results led to immediate corrective actions."
Markus Nordberg, Resources Co-ordinator, CERN
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Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra invited participants from industry, government, universities and media to brainstorm ideas on what needs to be taken into consideration when preparing the national natural resources strategy. After the strategy was final, stakeholders and general public were invited again to propose projects which should be initiated to implement the strategy.
Both of these ”Open network surveys” were implemented using Fountain Park’s virtual brainstorming method. The results were presented to Finnish Prime Minister. A few months later, the strategy won the first prize in the national competition of the European Business Awards for the Environment.
Both of these ”Open network surveys” were implemented using Fountain Park’s virtual brainstorming method. The results were presented to Finnish Prime Minister. A few months later, the strategy won the first prize in the national competition of the European Business Awards for the Environment.
The National Natural Resources Strategy is unique because it examines natural resources and their inter-linkages across sector boundaries, and covers both the use and protection perspectives over a sufficiently long timescale. We received the award for the way in which the strategy was prepared. It is fantastic that this has also been taken note of in the EU’s environment competition.”
Eeva Hellström, Programme Director, The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra.
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