INCO.NET ¨EULARINET¨ (GA 212186)

Ángeles Macías GarcíaEULARINET Manager Coordinator

MICINN-Spain

The EULARINET (7FP) Project (European Union - Latin American Research and Innovation NETworks) is a 4 years Coordination Action (INCO.Net) (March 2008- February 2012) whose main goal is to strengthen the bi-regional dialogue on S&T between EU Member States (MS), Associated States (AS) and Latin American Partner Countries (LAPC) , at policy, programme and institutional (research entities) level, thus contributing to a three fold objective: a) Promote the joint identification, setting up, implementation and monitoring of mutual interest priorities of future work programmes across the Specific Programmes of FP7. b) Joint definition of S&T co-operation policies c) Support and stimulate the participation of LAPC in FP7

EULARINET - Concept and Objectives

SPAIN MICINN Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación ( Spain)

Germany BMBF Federal Ministry of Education and Research

DLR International Bureau of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Austria ZSI Centre for Social Innovation

Spain UPM Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

CSIC Spanish Council for Scientific Research

Finland AKA Academy of Finland

France IRD Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

CIRAD Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développment

Norway RCN The Research Council of Norway

Portugal ADI Agência de Inovação

FCT Fundaçao para Ciencia e Tecnología

Argentina MINCYT Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología

Chile CONICYT Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica

Colombia COLCIENCIAS Instituto Colombiano para el Desarrollo de la Ciencia y la Tecnología

Mexico CONACYT Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología

Nicaragua CONICYT Consejo Nicaragüense de Ciencia y Tecnología

Brasil CNPq Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico

Uruguay MEC-CUBIST Ministry of Education and Culture-CUBIST

EULARINET PARTNERS

EULARINET – Work Packages (WPs)

WP1: Analysis, Monitoring and Review WP Leader: Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD-France) WP co-Leader: Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica (CONICYT-Chile)

• WP2: Strengthening the participation of LA in FP7 WP Leader: International Bureau of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (DLR-Germany) WP co-Leader: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico – (CNPq-Brazil)

• WP3: Bi-regional Policy DialogueLeader WP3: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN-Spain)Co-Leader WP3: Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva (MINCYT-Argentina)

• WP4: Bi-regional Science - Industry Relationships Leader WP4: Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD-France)Co-Leader WP4: Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT-Mexico)

• WP5: Raising awareness and Dissemination activitiesWP 5 Leader: Fundaçao para Ciencia e Tecnología (FCT-Portugal) WP 5 Co-Leader: Consejo Nicaragüense de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONICYT-Nicaragua)• WP6: Project Management Leader: Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN-Spain)

EULARINET MAIN RESULTS -WP1: Analysis, Monitoring and Review: Laying the ground

- A complete statistical overview has been produced based on the available information from DG-RTD about past FP6 and ongoing FP7 cooperation activities between EU and LA partners.

- A questionnaire to qualitatively survey the strengths and weaknesses of the participation of Latin American research institutions in FP7 was developed and sent to 163 project holders in the region

- S&T indicators are produced on the basis of a consensus of main observatories involved in measuring S&T cooperation between LA and EU countries.

EULARINET MAIN RESULTS -WP1: Analysis, Monitoring and Review: Laying the ground (Cont.)

- EVENT: ¨International thematic Workshop on Indicators of bi-regional Cooperation in Science, Technology and Innovation (ST&I)¨. Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) on July 18th 2009. The main objective of this workshop was to promote a meeting between experts of indicators of ST&I representing different observatories, so as to debate on a pertinent set of indicators able to monitor the evolution of the cooperation between Latin America and the European Union.

- A complete view of the modalities of the bi-regional cooperation led at the level of EU member states in Latin America (S&T cooperation schemes) has been conducted through means of qualitative questionnaires to LA funding agencies.

SELECTED DOCUMENTS PRODUCED IN WP1

• S&T Indicators based on publications (IEDCYT/CSIC- Spain)• Analysis of patents collaborations between Latin America and Europe (IEDCYT/CSIC- Spain)• Deliverable. 1.1: Statistical report on bi-regional ST&I activities under FP6 (IRD-France)• Deliverable.1.2: Report on indicators of ST&I bi-regional activities (IEDCYT/CSIC- Spain)

EULARINET MAIN RESULTS - WP2: Strengthening LA participation in FP7

- A NCP-workshop was realised back to back with the consortium’s annual meeting in Lisbon in March 2009 in order to find out in detail about the NCPs strengths, weaknesses and priority interests. It was organised in collaboration with INCONTACT

- A new questionnaire was elaborated to get more and precise background information on the conditions of work of NCPs in Latin America and sent to all 13 Latin American NCPs in October 2009

- Contact lists of European Thematic NCPs or Thematic Networks were produced and offered as incentives for questionnaire responses

-EVENT: ¨NCP Training course¨: Florianopolis, Brazil, November 4-6th 2009

EULARINET MAIN RESULTS - WP2: Strengthening LA participation in FP7 (Cont.)

- EVENT: ¨Latin American-European Environment Workshop¨: Bogotá, Nov. 2009. Experts were highly qualified and very dedicated to fulfill the workshop’s goals, and as a result a list of ten SICA-proposals was presented to the Thematic Directorate Environment In DG RTD

- EVENT: ¨EU-LA ICT Gateway – Workshop on EU-LA cooperation possibilities¨, Brussels, September 2010

- EVENT: ¨Joint INCO.NET Workshop on KBBE¨, Montpellier, October 2010- EVENT: ¨Thematic Workshop on Health¨, Buenos Aires, Nov. 2010

SELECTED DOCUMENTS PRODUCED IN WP2

- Questionnaire for NCPs and NIPs- Deliverable.2.2.Final Report Environment Workshop- Deliverable 2.3 “Recommendations for SICA-topics and other topics highly relevant for the

cooperation between Europe and Latin America¨

EULARINET MAIN RESULTS - WP3: Top-down policy driven on Research

Sub-regional dialogues are organised annually in the three sub-regions, as preparation to Bi-regional dialogue to be held in Mexico on Sep. 7-8th 2010

EVENTS: Sub-regional R&I dialogue with Mexico & Central America (Mexico) First: November 21st 2008, Mexico DF, Mexico Second: 18-19th of November 2009 Mexico DF, Mexico

Sub-regional R&I dialogue with Andean countries (Colombia, Chile)

First: March 16th 2009 in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia Second: Santiago, Chile, on the 14th and 15th of January 2010 Sub-regional R&I dialogue with MERCOSUR (Brazil)

First: November 24 2008, Buenos Aires, Argentina Second: Brasilia, on the 23rd and 24th of November 2009

EULARINET MAIN RESULTS - WP3: Top-down policy driven on Research (Cont.)

First Sub-Regional Conferences• EULARINET Aclaratory Notes for the Approach of the Su-regional meetings– MICINN-Spain•Deliverable 3.2. Specific report on research needs•Deliverable 3.4. Specific reports on research needs

Second Sub-Regional Conferences•¨Guidelines for the organisation of the EULARINET Sub regional Conferences¨: ‐MICINN-Spain•“Towards a new approach for a co operation in science and technology between ‐Latin America and the European Union¨: MICINN-Spain• Deliverable 3.5. Synthesis Document: MICINN-Spain→ Presented at the SOM

SELECTED DOCUMENTS PRODUCED IN WP3

EULARINET MAIN RESULTS - WP4: Bi-regional Science-Industry Relationships

EVENT: Workshop: "Successful experiences of cooperation between the Science and the Industry in European Union and Latin America“, Mexico DF

EVENT: OPENING KNOTS- Workshop on looking for the solutions foe EU- Latin American Industry- Academia cooperation. Helsinki, Finland, June 17 and 18 2009.

EVENT: Bi-regional expert Electronic Forum, held during Sept-Oct 2009

EVENT: Workshop in Science nd Industry on Food, ICT and Health, Montevideo, Uruguay, June/August 2009

EVENT: LA-EU Worshop on technology transference and Innovacion, Dec. 7 and 8th 2009, Montevideo, Uruguay

SELECTED DOCUMENTS PRODUCED IN WP4

• Enhancing research-industry alliances, innovation and technology transfer EU-LA:UPM-Spain, CONACYT-Mexico and CIRAD-France.

EULARINET MAIN RESULTS – WP5: Raising the Awareness and Dissemination Activities

•EULARINET Webpage (a new Web is currently being developed)(www.S2lat.eu/eularinet)

• EULARINET Newsletter

• EULARINET Flyer and corporative design

• EULARINET Poster

• EULARINET Website

Highlight of Main Results of the Project (1/2)

•A complete statistical overview has been produced based on the available information from DG-RTD about past FP6 and ongoing FP7 cooperation activities between EU and LA partners

•A complete view of the modalities of the bi-regional cooperation led at the level of EU member states in Latin America (S&T cooperation schemes) has been conducted through means of qualitative questionnaires to LA funding agencies

•Report on the mapping of European and Latin American science and technology cooperation scheme patterns which focuses on the bilateral S&T agreements between both regions

•Contact lists of Latin American NCPs or European Thematic Networks were produced and offered as incentives for questionnaire responses

Highlight of Main Results of the Project (2/2)

•A list of ten SICA-proposals was presented to the Thematic Directorate Environment in DG RTD

•Background reports for future EU-Latin American cooperation in the ICT theme, including national priorities in ICT research have been produced for Argentine, Chile, Nicaragua and Switzerland

•EULARINET will provide to the European Commission with eight theme profiles as recommendation for its future Work programme formulation (2012 and beyond) on the Health theme.

Future Challenges for EULARINET in JOINT PRIORITY SETTING

• Work out common reserach topics through the organisation of a new series of Thematic Workshops and videoconferences aimed at encouraging the participation of Latin American research organisations;

• Matchmaking events and specific Infodays to promote LA participation in the FP7 2011 call, in collaboration with other connected projects.

Future challenges for EULARINET in S&T DIALOGUE

• Identifying EULARINET role in contributing to the implementation of the EU-LAC Summit commitments.

• Consequently, define the objectives of the future dialogue meetings

• Possible avenues:– Broaden the scope of the paper «Towards a new approach to EU – LA S&T

cooperation » to encompass an analysis of MS programmes, drawing from the results of EULANEST;

– Open up a dissemination and consultation process within the Commission (RELEX, AIDCO, etc.), within SFIC, etc.;

– What technical support can be provided to the EU-LAC process?

Future challenges for EULARINET in SCIENCE – INDUSTRY RELATIONS

• Strengthening links with innovation policies and programmes

• Explore needs for LA in Infrastructures

• Identifying experiences that can be taken up in the setting up of Knowledge and Innovation Centres, e.g. AL-INVEST, country programmes.

• ¨ The WPs in which the EULARINET project is divided are equally led by one institution from EU and one from LA¨

• ¨The EULARINET project serves as an umbrella for the on-going EU – LAC cooperation in S&T¨

• ¨EULARINET structures the EU-LAC dialogue in S&T¨

• ¨The recently renewed EULARINET Website serves both for diffusion of the project activities and as a portal that collects EU-LAC cooperation initiatives ¨ (http://www.eularinet.eu)

Important particulars of the EULARINET Project

Thank you for your attention!

Ángeles Macías GarcíaManager Corrdinator of EULARINET

Ministry of Science and Innovation – MICINN (Spain)angeles.macias@micinn.es