OVERVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL COLABORATION WITHIN THE MEDITERRANEAN

MINISTRY OF ECONOMY AND COMPETITIVENESS

Estrella Fernández García Deputy Director Assistant for International Projects Directorate General for Scientific and Technical Research

ABOUT US -  Recent and Future Governance Changes. -  Our instruments and capabilities -  Universities, research centres, infrastructures

ON-GOING INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS EU FP7. -  INCO-Nets. CAAST-Net. MIRA. MED-SPRING -  ERA-Nets. FORESTERRA. ERAFRICA - OPIS and CDTI bilateral agreements

FUTURE INICIATIVES WITHIN THE EU: - ERA-MED-Net - MEDINNA

May 2011 Approval of the new Act for Science, Technology & Innovation

December 2011 Creation of a new Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness

December 2012 New Spanish Strategy for Science, Technology and Innovation / public consultation Oct. 2012

December 2012 New State Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation /currently on public consultation

S1-2013 Creation of the new State Research Agency

Changes  in  the  Spanish  STI  governance  2011-­‐2013  

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INSTRUMENTS: FROM BASIC SCIENCE TO INDUSTRY RESEARCH

Basic Res. Oriented R&D Applied R&D&I

R&D&I Ecosystem: Universities and research organisations

Centres BUDGET (M€)

CSIC 126 634,04

CIEMAT 6 116,44

IGME 2 43,95

IEO 10 65,77

INIA 4 83,97

ISCIII 4 369,70

IAC 4 22,28

INTA 6 100,00

TOTAL 1.436,15

Personnel: more than 16.000 people (12000 within CSIC)

78 Universities distributed all over the geography responsible of 26,7% of total R&D expenditure

Personnel: 78.846 people working on R&D (FTE)

Foundations

Regional research centres

Technological centres

Scientific Parks

Private companies

ABOUT US -  Recent and Future Governance Changes. -  Our instruments and capabilities -  Universities, research centres, infrastructures

ON-GOING INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS. EU FP7. -  INCO-Nets. MIRA. CAAST-NET -  MED-SPRING -  ERA-Nets. FORESTERRA. ERAFRICA -  OPIS and CDTI bilateral agreements

FUTURE INICIATIVES WITHIN THE EU: - ERA-Med-Net - MEDINNA

European  7th  Framework  Programme.  INCO-­‐NETS    

http://www.caast-net.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ http://www.miraproject.eu/

Promote and structure the participation of third countries in the activities of FP7.

Promote regional integration as well as identification and the prioritization of common research areas of mutual interest and benefit.

Facilitate the uptake and use of common identified research areas and the monitoring of performance and impacts of international S&T cooperation across the Specific Programmes of FP7.

The INCO-NET projects can help to establish balanced partnerships, including multiple international stakeholders (partners from research, industry, government and civil society) for research actions.

INCO-NET: MIRA Project: Mediterranean Innovation and Research Coordination Action Community of Practice Coordination: CSIC Spain

Morocco Tunisia Egypt Algeria Jordan Lebanon Palestine territories

Spain France Italiy Germany Romania Greece Malta Turkey Israel http://www.miraproject.eu/

MINECO. Multilateral Cooperation. INCO-NETS

MIRA Final Conference, January 2013 New INCO-NET, MED-SPRING, kick off in 2013

http://www.caast-net.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/

A Network for the Coordination and Advancement of Sub-Saharan Africa-EU Science & Technology Cooperation

Developed as a high-level platform, financed by the European Union's FP7, to advance international cooperation between Europe and Africa for mutual benefit.

CAAST-Net's goal: Increase quality and quantity of bi-regional cooperation in S&T between Europe and Africa, targeting areas of mutual interest and benefit through greater use of instruments under the FP7.

21 COUNTRIES IN AFRICA AND EUROPE, including Turkey, Egypt, Cap Vert, Senegal, Kenya, Madagascar, Ghana, Uganda, Rwanda, Botswana, Nigeria….

MINECO. Multilateral Cooperation. INCO-nets

European 7th Framework Programme. ERA-NETS.

Coordination of national research programmes in specific areas, usually within the EU members and associated countries, but they are also open to third countries.

INCO-Programme.

Geographic Era-Nets, alike Inco-nets, promote and structure the participation of third countries in the activities of FP7. Associated calls.

Thematic ERA-Nets

The aim of Era-Nets is the coordination of national research programmes to build the ERA. The ERA-NET projects establish balanced partnerships, and make it possible the launching of MULTILATERAL CALLS. National funding of the projects.

FORESTERRA  

Coordina0on  of  forest  research  in  the  Mediterranean  countries.  

Implementa0on  of  ini0a0ves  of  capacity  building,  mobility  and  joint  projects  

Forests  are  crucial  for  water  conserva1on,  among  other  scarse  resources  in  the  Mediterranean  

countries  

Coordinator:  EFI-­‐MED-­‐MINECO,  Spain  (European  Forestry  Ins0tute)  

Par0cipants:  8  EU  +  Turkey  +  Maroco,  Algeria,  Tunisia  

Budget  2M€  /FP7-­‐CE  

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MINECO. ERA-nets. FORESTERRA FOREST RESEARCH IN THE MEDITERRANEAN

HAUT COMMISSARIAT AUX EAUX ET FORETS ET A LA LUTTE CONTRE LA DESERTIFICATION MOROCCO

MINISTERE DE L'AGRICULTURE ET DU DEVELOPPEMENT RURAL ALGERIA

INSTITUTION DE LA RECHERCHE ET DE L'ENSEIGNEMENT SUPERIEUR AGRICOLES, TUNISIA

MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND FORESTRY GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF FORESTRY TURKEY

Coordination of national research programmes of the EU with Africa. The agreement for a common CALL was signed this month in South Africa.

Coordinator: IRD-CNRS, France

Participants: 7 EU + Turkey + Egypt, South Africa and Kenya

Budget: 2M€ /FP7-CE

Next call in 2013. Egypt one of the main actors in the Renewable Energy thematic call.

Spanish participation?

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MINECO. ERA-nets. ERAFRICA

MISTRALS. FRENCH Programme Owned by IRD-CNRS

- General Assembly in Malta, with Med countries - ENVI-Med: Call for networking projects, open to other countries

AN INTERDISPLINARY METAPROGRAM of OBSERVATION and RESEARCH DEDICATED to THE MEDITERRANEAN

Seven AXES

- HyMeX (Hydrological cycle in the Mediterranean eXperiment)

- MerMeX (Marine Mediterranean eXperiment) focused on the biogeochemical changes that will take place in the Mediterranean Sea.

- ChArMEx(Chemistry-AerosolMediterranean eXperiment) to evaluate current situation of the Mediterranean basin atmospheric environment and to anticipate its future development and its impact on regional climate, air quality and marine biogeochemistry.

AGORA project ERA-ARD ERA-Net CGIAR, ICARDA (Syria)

Bilateral agreement with the Hassan II Academy, for Nano and Biotec projects

Capacity building programmes with Moroco and Tunisia

OPIS. PUBLIC RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS

AGREEMENTS AND PROJECTS WITH MAROCO, TUNISIA, ALGERIA INTENSE ACTIVITY IN NORTHERN AFRICA

CDTI. CENTER FOR THE INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT

- BILATERAL AGREEMENTS WITH MAROCO, EGYPT, TUNISIA. - ANPME - Agence Nationale pour la†Promotion de la†Petite et Moyenne Entreprise

- CDTI DELEGATE IN MAROCO to promote cooperation between companies of the two countries in technological develpment projects. cou Support with other countries

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ABOUT US -  Recent and Future Governance Changes. -  Our instruments and capacities -  Universities, research centres, infrastructures

ON-GOING INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS EU FP7. -  INCO-Nets. MIRA. CAAST-NET -  ERA-Nets. FORESTERRA. ERAFRICA -  MISTRALS (FRANCE programme)

FUTURE INICIATIVES WITHIN THE EU: - ERA-Med-Net - MEDINNA

The short term future

Background Meetings of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership & Monitoring Committee for the Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation in RTD: MoCo. Ministerial conferences.

- Barcelona Declaration and Euro-Mediterranean partnership in 2005 included cooperation in Science and Technology - Compromise of High Education and Research of the First Euro-Med Ministerial Conference, Cairo 2007 - Union for Mediterranean launched in 2008 considered research as one of the 6 axis of cooperation - Euro-Mediterranean Renewed Partnership in R&I based on Art. 185 was one of the Conclusions of Euro-Mediterranean Conference on Research and Innovation, held in Barcelona on 2-3 April 2012, - 16th MoCo () meeting Brussels 21-22 June 2012 - The launch of an ERANET for the Mediterranean area by the EC (10 July 2012) -17TH MoCo meeting, Malta 20th November 2012: advance for art. 185.

MED-Spring, INCO-Net. Starts 2013. EU funding

ERA-Med Net (Inco-Call in July 2012)

- First geographic Era-Net for the Mediterranean - Proposal to the EU:18 December 2012 - Coordination: MIUR (Italy) / CIHEAM (International Centre for Mediterranean Agronomy Studies) - Kick-off in 2014 - Joint Call for projects 2015

The short term future. INCO-ERA-nets

ERANET MED Joint Call for R&D Projects Estimated Budget size 50 M€ Flexible EU Coordination Costs 2M€

Action Plan for MEDINNA Mediterranean Innovation Area Joint initiative

Two models: - ERA-Net Plus - Art. 185

The long term future

Art. 185 is based on integration of parts of the National Research Programmes to be implemented in a joint way under the umbrella of the Commission.

National Research Programs integration (MS & Med Partner Countries) Estimated Budget size 300 M€ EU contribution till 50% Dedicated Implementation Structure Permanent governance structure Decision of European Parliament Mid-Long Term… 2015-2016

ERANET MED PLUS Joint Call for R&D Projects

Estimated Budget size 50 M€

UE funding requirements EU contribution till 33%

MEDINNA-MEDiterranean INNovation Area Joint Initiative

Infrastructure Mobility for MED

LANDSCAPE AND TIMELINE FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN COLABORATION INSTRUMENTS WITHIN THE FRAME PROGRAMME

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Mandate for MEDINNA, Mobility, Infrastructure+SMEs

MEDINNA Starts Art. 185 / E-Plus

MIRA final Kick-off MED SPRING

BILATS ALGERIA, EGYPT, MOROCO, TUNISIA

THEMATIC ERA-NETS (FORESTERRA & SEAS-ERA) + JPI WATER AND OCEANS

EUSOLARIS

ERANETMed-Projects ERANETMED-Application ERANETMED-Start ERANETMED Joint Call

17th MOCO-Nov12 18th MOCO-Apr13

EU-MED Conf 1Tri 13

MEDINNA-MEDiterranean INNovation Area. Joint Initiative

Next Steps

•  17th MoCo (Monitoring Committee for the Euro-Med cooperation) meeting November 2012 (last week)

• Concept Paper Euro-Mediterranean Ministerial Conference, Spring 2013 French and Egyptian Co-Presidency Union for Mediterranean

•  ERANET for the Mediterranean area. Deadline 18 Dec. 2012, starting in 2014. Promoter: Italy

Thank you!