The project management agency ‘Fundamental Issues and Strategies in Education and Research’ bundles support services for four key departmens within Division S ‘Strategies and Fundamental Issues’ at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMFTR). Among other things, the division is responsible for innovation policy, strategic foresight and futurology, fundamental issues of digitisation, and the collection of data for research and technology.
The project management agency provides conceptual support to the BMFTR in implementing the German government's research and innovation policy strategy and other overarching innovation policy processes and issues. Furthermore, the project management agency promotes projects for innovation and technology analysis and manages grants and allocations for the collection of education and innovation statistics.
Key areas of focus include social innovation, strategic foresight, the development of strategic processes, the implementation of new innovation indicators, cross-cutting issues relating to innovation policy and the measurement of the impact of funding measures, and the strengthening of an evaluation culture within the BMFTR. The project management agency also supported the design of strategic, structure-building measures such as the Agency for Breakthrough Innovations in an earlier phase.
