Victor van Rij is an advisor for educational and science policy and an expert in the field of foresight and identification of early warning signals for many policy areas. He is employed by the University of Amsterdam and working for a variety of institutions as the Rathenau Institute, the Foresight team of UNESCO and the CULT committee of the European Parliament. He started his career as policy advisor on research and educational matters at the University of Amsterdam where he also completed his study as biologist.
Serving as senior advisor on foresight for the unit of Foresight and Horizon Scanning of the Netherlands Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and assistant of the Science Foresight Coordinator at the Royal Academy of Science and Arts (The Netherlands) he was involved in many national and European foresight projects. As scientific staff member of the Netherlands Council for Science and Technology he was involved in the conceptualisation of HL science policy advices to the Netherlands government. Drs. van Rij was the Netherlands coordinator of the ERANet Forsociety and is member of the national network of future experts within the Netherlands. He was involved in many national and international foresight projects as consultant and contractor and was member of the Science in Society Advisory Group of the European Commission. He has been involved in the Dutch National Horizon Scan and led a pilot project joining the HorizonScans of the UK, Denmark and the Netherlands.

Presentation title: Who Need a Teacher in 21^st Century?