Maghrenov workshop-on-capacity-building-eu-mpc-macarena-munoz-medspring

MAGHRENOV Workshop on Capacity Building EU-‐MPC Barcelona, 19th June 2014

Capacity Building in MEDSPRING

Macarena Muñoz

Capacity building in MEDSPRING

•  Euro-‐Mediterranean bi-‐regional dialogue on selected societal challenges

•  Euro-‐Mediterranean cooperation on R&I •  Capacity building •  EMEG

Mediterranean Science, Policy, Research and Innovation Gateway*

•  MEDSPRING AGORA -‐ Dialogue with civil society, research WEB communities, supports innovative ideas from young entrepreneurs / researchers

*From Feb 2013!


International Organisation (CIHEAM, Co-‐ordinator)

Research Ministries Research Councils

Research organisations / Universities NGOs and Associations

MS: Italy, Spain, Germany, Portugal, France, Greece, Malta, Cyprus, Belgium Mediterranean Countries associated to FP7: Turkey, Israel Mediterranean Countries non-‐associated: Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco,

Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan

MEDSPRING Partnership


medspring.eu 9 WORKPACKAGES

WP4: RI open dialogue. The Euro-‐Mediterranean Agora

WP5: Brokerage and venturing for innovation and EU-‐MPC research networking and cooperation

WP7: Capacity building in RDI


Platform to stimulate participation and discussion of civil society and stakeholders on R&I accounting for

the selected societal challenges

•  Increasing knowledge exchange with the Euro-‐Med civil society and community

•  Enhancing participatory democracy in addressing research linked to the selected societal challenges

•  Fostering awareness of the role of the society in contributing to policy process and outcome (ex.: publication of a fully participated Position Paper)

WP4: Open dialogue on RI – The Euro-‐Mediterranean AGORA


… How does MEDSPRING stimulate the participation?

agora.medspring.eu

2 recent examples:

•  The Open Consultations before the EMEG Meetings

•  The Brokerage Events


An open consultation is a participative instrument to open the decision-‐making process to all those willing to get involved. Its main objective is to listen to often unheard voices and make good use of them: it is a first step towards a participative democracy.

Ex. 1 -‐ The Open Consultation


EMEG Meeting aimed at developing a common frame of topics to be addressed for research valorization in Water, Food, and Energy. EMEG departed from the results obtained through the Open Consultation: its results were highly valued by the EMEG experts and contributed positively to enrich the discussion.


http://agora.medspring.eu/en/content/emeg-‐policies-‐consultation

New Open Consultation!!


WP5: Brokerage and venturing for innovation and EU-‐MPC research networking and cooperation

1. Brokerage to strengthen cooperation among researchers, SME and other stakeholders. Facilitate networking and partnership cooperation to participate in EU research and innovation programmes as well as MS/AC and MPC programmes.

2. Brokerage and venturing for innovation bridging between R&I through the creation of private-‐public and research-‐enterprise partnerships, bridging also local and regional actors, helping them to join forces and enhance clustering for innovation.


Feb 2014: Regional Euro-‐Mediterranean event where companies, organizations, entrepreneurs and researchers from different EU and Mediterranean countries participate with the aim of networking and finding potential collaborators and partners. BEFORE: 15 participants –“idea carriers”– were selected and invited to present their ideas to potential investors and discuss further developments with other researchers and stakeholders during the brokerage event.

Ex. 2 -‐ The Brokerage Events


Ex. 2 -‐ The Brokerage Events

AGORA web community

Publication of call for

innovative ideas

Selection of idea-‐carriers

Pitching and training of idea-‐carriers

Face-‐to-‐face meetings with

investors

Follow-‐up and

preparation of next

brokerage MEDSPRING Agora accompanied idea-‐

carriers from proposal to brokerage



Sharing knowledge on R&I issues among participants while encouraging them to participate in HORIZON 2020 The programme will have a trans-‐national dimension, and will be based on the concept of training for trainers and on the-‐job-‐training. The training will be addressed to researchers (including young graduates), technology driven SMEs, governmental officers, FP national contact points and thematic contact points. The capacity building activities will take into consideration the identified clusters and community of the MEDSPRING Agora


Max. 6 3-‐days training sessions for max 15 participants/session. Online capacity building will also be considered . Specific activities addressed to the improvement and extension of FP7-‐Thematic Contact Points The participants will be identified through the country institutional partner participating in the project for the HORIZON 2020 trainings. For innovation trainings an application procedure will be tested, which is open to selected innovation stakeholders with a special profile.



Training on H2020 for Mediterranean NCPs, research managers and researchers, Marrakesh from 11th to 13th of June.



More information

MEDSPRING Website medspring.eu AGORA MEDSPRING Website agora.medspring.eu �  Agora MedSpring on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AgoraMedSpring �  Agora MedSpring on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/AgoraMedSpring/ �  Agora MedSpring on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/profile


Thanks for your attention!

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