General Information [Phase 1]

Sustainable development offers an ideal conceptual framework in which to use the prospective strategy as a planning method for the analysis, imagination and commitment, and to choose and develop projects and processes that are technologically viable, economically profitable, environmentally respectful and socially desirable.

As the beginning of this SMP(SD) project, Eusko Ikaskuntza organized an initial phase of prospective-strategic reflection on Sustainable Development that analysed the tendencies and interrelationships of factors of Economic and Social Development worldwide –at all levels of action- together with the effects and repercussions they have had on the environment.

The four scientific meetings in this first phase held in the Technological Park in Donostia-San Sebastian were directed by scientists of world-wide prestige in the field of prospective-strategic methodologies applied to sustainable development and in each of such meetings we have benefited from the participation of around 60 specialists and actors from our society —scientists, public administrations, civil society and the rest of the public sector— who work on themes related with sustainable development from various areas, perspectives and specialities.

This initial phase had the objective of identifying the strategic factors that, in the foreseeable future, would determine our future in terms of sustainability and that have made it possible to make out the strategic options reference to the various (environmental, energy, technological, social, economic, etc.) policies and lines of action to follow.

The conclusions were gathered in the Euskal Herria 2020 Project, which identifies 47 short, medium and long term objectives; 107 basic strategic actions (2006-2008); and 156 immediate strategic actions (2004-2005).

For more information, the documentation generated in the meetings of the First Phase are at your disposal.