The EU-Mediterranean Neighbourhood: Implications for Research Sharing Knowledge Foundation: Chania,, Greece, April 2008 Mary Kavanagh European Commission Directorate General for Research International S&T Cooperation
Main points of presentation European Neighbourhood Policy 7 th Framework Programme for Research and Development S&T Agreements EU-Africa Strategic Partnership 2
The EU and its neighbours 3
Our ENP partners The immediate neighbours of the enlarged EU to the South and to the East 16 countries Israel, Jordan, Moldova, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, Tunisia, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Lebanon and Egypt Algeria (Association Agreement in force since 2005) Belarus, Syria (no Agreements in force) Libya (a mandate for negotiations proposed by the EC) 4
What are the objectives? Key EU foreign policy priority Working together supporting partners own reform processes (political, economic, social ) Strategic goal: mutual prosperity, stability, security European Neighbourhood & Partnership Instrument (ENPI): Almost 12bn, 2007-2013 5
Scope of ENP Action Plans Political dialogue and reform Sound macro-economic management, economic and social cooperation and development Trade related issues, market and regulatory reform Co-operation on Justice, Freedom and Security Sector-policies: Transport, energy, information society, environment, research and development Human dimension: People-to-people contacts, civil society, education, public health Same six chapters in all Action Plans but content specific to each partner 6
Examples of use of ENPI by partner countries: Egypt: 11 million for Research, Development and Innovation initiatives. Jordan: 5 M for support to Research & Technological Development & Innovation Initiatives and Strategies in Jordan Tunisia: 12 M for S&T Capacity Building 7
What is FP7? EU Research Framework Programme Duration: 7 years Budget: over 53 billion Structure: 4 Specific Programmes: Cooperation, Ideas, People, Capacities (plus EURATOM and Joint Research Center) Integration of the international dimension into all Specific Programmes
FP7: 50.521 EC (2007 2013) + 2.751 EURATOM (2007 2011) The indicative breakdown ( million) of FP7 Capacities 4.097 Euratom 2.751 JRC/EC (non nuclear) 1.751 People 4.750 Ideas 7.510 Cooperation 32.413
Cooperation SP: 32.413 million The Cooperation Programme breakdown Energy 2.350 Environment (including Climate Change) 1.890 Transport (including Aeronautics) 4.160 Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities 623 Space 1.430 Nano production 3.475 Security 1.400 Information and Communication Technologies 9.050 Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology 1.935 Health 6.100 10
1- Associated countries International Cooperation: Third Countries 2- Industrialised countries (USA, Canada, Japan, Australia.) 3- International Cooperation Partner Countries (ICPC): Countries neighbouring the EU (Mediterranean Partner Countries, Western Balkans, Eastern European and Central Asian Countries) Developing countries (ACP, ASIA, Latin America) Emerging economies (e.g. China, India, Brazil, Russia, South Africa) 11
International cooperation in COOPERATION SP - All proposals may include 3 rd country partners - Specific S International Cooperation Actions linked to the 10 themes Calls for proposals dedicated to ICPC in each Theme Minimum 4 participants from different countries: 2 ICPC + 2 MS or AC ICPC participants get funding 12
Participation of ICPC countries in FP5 and FP6 Top ten developing countries participation FP5 EC financial contribution to partners from country (EUR) Number of participatio ns from country FP6 EC financial contribution to partners from country (EUR) Number of participatio ns from country Morocco 4.630.497 66 11.479.920 128 Tunisia 5.167.390 77 8.303.849 111 Ukraine 3.562.392 71 6.836.826 107 Egypt 3.525.864 54 6.633.959 90 Algeria 1.580.027 26 3.440.543 56 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.064.453 19 3.989.543 55 Jordan 2.754.655 44 3.982.425 50 Argentina 2.920.537 59 7.837.123 95 Chile 2.564.374 23 6.708.837 69 Lebanon 1.262.759 22 3.905.444 50
International Cooperation in PEOPLE SP Marie Curie host driven actions open to non-europeans International outgoing/incoming fellowships (+return scheme) International return grants International cooperation scheme (IRSES): partnerships to support exchange of researchers (joint EU+ / Neighbourhood countries or EU+ / S&T agreement countries) Measures to network expatriate researchers (NERE-Link) 14
CAPACITIES SP 1. Research Infrastructures 1.850 2. Research for the benefit of SMEs 1.336 3. Regions of Knowledge 0.126 4. Research Potential 0.370 5. Science in Society 0.280 6. Coherent development of research policies 0.070 7. Activities of International Cooperation 0.185 15
International Cooperation in CAPACITIES SP Policy Dialogue (INCO-Nets, e.g. MIRA) S&T Cooperation Agreements Coordination of National Policies & Activities ERA-Nets (e.g. China, ARD, Latin America) COOPERATION 16
INCONETs: a key tool for international cooperation Identifying needs and capabilities S&T policy dialogue Research priority setting Awareness raising Promotion of co-operation Capacity building 17
MIRA The INCO-Net dedicated to Mediterranean co-operation 28 Partners: all Mediterranean Countries plus additional Member States of EU Launched January 2008 Co-ordinator: Rafael Rodriguez, CSIS, Spain 18
S&T Agreements 16 EC Agreements EC: 4 industrialised, 5 emerging, 7 developing Geography: 2 Eastern Europe (Russia, Ukraine) 3 Mediterranean (Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia) 1 Sub-Saharan Africa (South Africa) 3 Asia (China, India, South Korea) 2 North America (Canada, USA) 4 Latin America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico) 1 Oceania (Australia) In the pipeline: Japan, Jordan, New Zealand 19
Africa-EU Partnership on Science, Information society and Space Lisbon: EU-Africa Summit Strategic Partnership 2008-2013 8 Partnerships including one on Science, Information Society and Space Includes support to African Consolidated Plan of Action for S&T This partnership will be the focus of our S&T Co-operation with Africa 20
Further information 7 th Framework Programme: http://ec.europa.eu/research/fp7 International Scientific Cooperation Policy: http://ec.europa.eu/research/iscp/index_en.html European Neighbourhood Policy: http://ec.europa.eu/comm/world/enp MIRA: http://www.miraproject.eu/ 21
Directorate-General for Research International Scientific Cooperation mary.kavanagh@ec.europa.eu