IV Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities on Science and Technology

GS/OAS SEDI/DED Summary of Results and Activities 2012-2015

Cesar PargaChief

Section of Competitiveness, Innovation and Technology

Section of Competitiveness, Innovation and Technology 2012-2015

2 Meetings of the COMCYT (2012 and 2013)• 2012 October 18-19, 2012 (VII COMCYT)• 2013 November 14-15, 2013 (VIII COMCYT)

25 countries over 100 participant 40 Presentations of Experiences and partners cooperation opportunities 

28 videoconferences (WGs 1, 2 and 4)• Average 10 connections from Member States and Partners and 20

participants for 2 hours 

• 280 connections 560 participants 1120 hours of in kind professional hours

• OAS Missions, Technical teams in capitals, professional associations, experts, universities, companies, NGOs, international organizations

• Hosted by National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)-OASARTCA-University of Illinois, CISCO, Duke University, OAS

GS/OAS SEDI/DED Summary of Results and Activities 2012-15

18 Presential meetings and workshops (WG 1, 2, 3 and 4)• 2 Working Group 1, 6 Working Group 2, and 4 of Working Group 4• 6 Working Group 3- SIM, COPANT,IAAC and several additional workshops• Hosted by Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador,

Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United States• Convened over 30 professionals and stakeholders each (More than 500) with support of

strategic partners (UPADI, LACCEI, IANAS, OASARTCA)• Beneficiaries: Institutions and stakeholders from all OAS Member States

3 FEMCIDI (now Development Cooperation Fund/DCF) Projects• Engineering and Mobility, led by Argentina with Colombia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Mexico

and Uruguay (WG2)• Strengthening Metrology Institutes in the Americas-NIST for all OAS Member States(WG3)• Technology, Science and Engineering Transfer-Support Technology-based entrepreneurship led by Bolivia with Brazil, Mexico and Costa Rica (WG4)

Capacity Building and Special Cooperation Projects • CONACYT-AMEXCID-OAS Scholarship Program (WG2)

400 scholarships for Masters/PhDs from 20 OAS Member States• Metrology and Climate Change-NIST and USOAS Mission (WG3)• PTB, National Metrology Institute of Germany (WG3)• HASTAC/OASARTCA/EXECUTIVE IMMERSION PROGRAM-PASI-RIS• UC DAVIS/CONACYT/CANADA/CIBNOR> TECH.TRANSFER & COMM. ACADEMY

GS/OAS SEDI/DED Summary of Results and Activities 2012-15

GS/OAS SEDI/DED Summary of Results and Activities 2012-15

- Working Group 1 on Innovation:- Preliminary list of 32 Innovation Indicators based on

previous work with OECD- After consultation with working group members: Final list

of 12 Innovation Indicators - Collaboration with the Ibero and Inter-American Network

on Indicators of Science and Technology (RICYT) - Participation of CONACYT Mexico and the OAS

Technical Secretariat at the Anuual Meeting of RICYT in October 2014 in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Working Group 2 on Human Resources, Training and Education:

- Seminar in Buenos Aires in June 2013 to launch the FINAM Mobility Program

- FINAM Mobility Program Launch in September 2014 in Buenos Aires, Argentina

- General Assembly of the Pan-American Union of Engineering (UPADI) in 2013 in Medellin, Colombia; and 2014 in Santa Cruz, Bolivia

- Directory of 10 universities that have expressed interest in participating in the FINAM Mobility Program (Argentina, Costa Rica, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Estados Unidos)

- Second and Third Calls for Applications for the Scholarship Program OAS-CONACYT-AMEXCID donated by the National Council on Science and Technology of Mexico (CONACYT)

- Outreach approach to other partners from private sector (Cisco, GE, Intel, Softtek, Symantec)

GS/OAS SEDI/DED Summary of Results and Activities 2012-15

- Working Group 3 on National Quality Infrastructure:

- Signing of the MOU creating the Quality Infrastructure Council of the Americas in August 2014 in Guatemala

- Collaboration with PTB Germany on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Project, The Climate Change & Biodiversity Projects

- Group Meetings: - Trinidad and Tobago, August 2013 (IAAC General

Assembly)- Mexico, October 2013 (SIM General Assembly)- Guatemala, August 2014 (IAAC General Assembly)

- The WG3 has received support by PTB Germany, the National Research Council of Canada and the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

GS/OAS SEDI/DED Summary of Results and Activities 2012-15

- Working Group 4 on Technological Development:

- Shared good practices on Technology Transfer and Commercialization among members and partners of the WG

- Academy on Technology Transfer and Commercialization for the Americas on December 2-12, 2014 in La Paz, Mexico with participation of 14 OAS Member States.The Academy received financial support from the Government of Canada and the CONACYT of Mexico.

- Meeting with Technology Transfer Offices of the Americas in Queretaro, Mexico, on November 26-27, 2014, leading to Queretaro Charter

- Special HASTAC Conference in Lima Peru, Ministry of Culture and Mission of Peru to the OAS (April, 2014)

- Contributions from strategic partners such as University of California in Davis,Center for Biological Research of the Northwest, Mexico (CIBNOR), National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA, USA), OASARTCA-University of Illinois, ICHASS, HASTAC

GS/OAS SEDI/DED Summary of Results and Activities 2012-15