The EURASIAPAC partnership is pleased to announce its final workshop to be held on November 30, 2011 in Brussels, Belgium at the Radisson Blue Royal SAS Hotel.

This event is the last one of the series of 6 cooperation workshops organised in Europe and Asia-Pacific over the period 2010-11 by the EURASIAPAC project, and constitutes the major component in the discussion of actions to design effective funding and cooperation programmes aiming at strengthening ICT research cooperation between Europe and Asian-Pacific countries (Japan, Republic of South Korea, Australia, and New-Zealand).

During this event, the EURASIAPAC Cooperation Portal (accessible here) and the EU-Asia-Pacific ICT Cooperation Strategy will be presented, which are the two main project outcomes, gathering results from the thematic workshops with ones from the expert online consultation, identifying current and emerging research and cooperation priorities as well as major players in the ICT research field. The Cooperation Portal will be used also as a tool insuring the sustainability of the project while increasing international ICT research collaboration opportunities between the two regions.

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The SEACOOP partnership is pleased to announce its last event of a series of 6 cooperation forums organised over the period 2010-2011, in order to contribute strengthening S&T cooperation in ICT between Europe and the ASEAN region, and to support policy dialogues between the European Commission and the ASEAN Secretariat. The SEACOOP 6th cooperation forum will be held on October 25, 2011 in Yangon, Myanmar at the Sedona Hotel.

The event focus addresses an issue often faced when tackling the development of S&T cooperation in ICT between Europe and the ASEAN region (or other countries and regions of the world such as India and China, Africa or Latin America). The region is quite diverse in terms of development level and benefits from a quick economic development. Therefore, envisioning research cooperation under FP7 may appear as inappropriate or premature in some cases, while other European funding mechanisms (particularly those focusing on ICT for development) may be suited, and may even support a transition period towards cooperation on advanced research.

It is therefore necessary to “bridge the gap between ICT research and ICT for development”, and be able, when addressing S&T cooperation in ICT between the two regions, to introduce to the ASEAN stakeholders the wide spectrum of policies, programmes, and mechanisms which the European Commission, in liaison with the ASEAN Secretariat and other institutions can offer to ASEAN stakeholders, in order that the greatest number of links can be established and smoothly develop.

The main objective of the forum will be to allow a thorough exchange of information and experience between stakeholders from Europe and from the ASEAN region involved in activities aiming at strengthening S&T cooperation in ICT, or cooperation in ICT more generally, between the two regions. International organisations would be invited as well.

One expected output would be the release, after the event, of a public document detailing the policies, programmes, and mechanisms that the European Commission, the ASEAN Secretariat and other international organisations offer to support the strengthening of cooperation in ICT between Europe and Southeast Asia.

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Euro-India SPIRIT will hold a workshop on Opportunities for Indian & European ICT Research at eWorld2011 in August 1st, 2011 at the Ashok Hotel in New Delhi, India.

This workshop will examine the mutual benefit that collaboration on ICT research can hold for development in the eInfrastructures area for both India and Europe. With testimonials from Indian and European stakeholders already working together on areas such as security and interoperability, participants will gather valuable insights on the opportunities of EU-Indian collaboration and the European Commission’s funding programmes. A panel of renowned European and Indian ICT experts will also highlight the joint research prospects and potential benefits to India and Europe in domains that hold the key to societal development, technology leadership and marketplace success.

The last part of the workshop will be dedicated to a discussion on future EU-India ICT collaborative research topics.

Find out more about the workshop themes, speakers and agenda on the event page.

The SECAS initiative aiming at identifying and strengthening international collaboration on ICT research between Europe and Australia, New Zealand and Singapore organises a half day Workshop dedicated to improve the project ICT Research Policy.

The main objective of this event to be held on June 22, 2011, in Brussels is to consult with leading policy makers within Europe, to validate and fine tune proposed by SECAS project strategies and recommendations that will ultimately be delivered to the European Commission. The event will gather leading policy makers to learn of the project results and to contribute to a more robust series of recommendations.

If you are interested to participate in this event please visit the SECAS website or contact the event organizer.

]]> http://euroasia-ict.org/2011/06/30/secas-workshop-improving-ict-research-policy-june-22-2011-in-brussels/feed/ 0 http://euroasia-ict.org/2011/04/22/synchroniser-project%e2%80%99s-contribution-to-ecs-green-paper/ http://euroasia-ict.org/2011/04/22/synchroniser-project%e2%80%99s-contribution-to-ecs-green-paper/#comments Fri, 22 Apr 2011 10:28:19 +0000 Website Editor http://euroasia-ict.org/?p=672 The European Commission presented a Green Paper which proposes major changes to EU research and innovation funding to make participation easier, increase scientific and economic impact and provide better value for money. Commission is seeking the views of all interested individuals and organizations on these proposed changes and on the specific questions set out in the Green Paper.

The SYNCHRONISER project has provided its recommendations and views to the ‘Green Paper’. The project’s Position paper on International Cooperation in the Common Strategic Framework can be downloaded here.

For more information on Green Paper, click here.

The first Cooperation Forum on Internet of Things held in Ho Chi Minh City on April 5, 2011 was hosted by the SEACOOP local partner, The National Council for S&T Policy (NCSTP) while the second one organised on April 7, 2011 in Phnom Penh was hosted by The National ICT Development Authority (NiDA).

Both events benefited from the presence of around 90 representatives of European and Southeast Asian policy and research stakeholders and allowed to more precisely evaluate the research topics which could usefully be explored through joint projects on Internet of Things and ICT for Inclusion theme, namely in the framework of the European Commission’s FP7 research funding programme.

The event proceedings and video recordings of both Cooperation Forums are available at the SEACOOP website.

The three events were hosted by the EURASIAPAC local partners (Australia’s national science agency: the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation; the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology) and with the support of the European Commission DG Information Society and Media (DG Infso).

The events brought together an important number of European and Asia-Pacific policy and research stakeholders and constituted one of the major components in the discussion and dissemination of the ICT research and cooperation opportunities.

Results of these thematic workshops will be used in the “EU‐ASIA‐PACIFIC ICT Cooperation Strategy” to be presented during a final Workshop held in Brussels on November 30, 2011.

For further information, please visit the EURASIAPAC website.

The overall objective of these thematic workshops is, at the end of the day, to develop concrete recommendations to the European Commission for actions on ICT research cooperation between Europe and the Asian‐Pacific target countries.

Results of the thematic workshops will be used to enhance and finalize the individual Roadmap‐Surveys while helping the identification of local cooperation opportunities, programmes and mechanisms. These results will be used in the “EU‐ASIA‐PACIFIC ICT Cooperation Strategy” to be presented during a final Workshop held in Brussels at the end of the project.

For further information, please visit the EURASIAPAC website events section or contact the project.

The SEACOOP partnership is pleased to announce a series of events planned for April 4-8, 2011 in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) and Phnom Penh (Cambodia).

During this week, two cooperation events, focusing on research topics identified as having a great cooperation potential (to be announced soon), will be organized within the following dates:

• 4th SEACOOP Cooperation event in Ho Chi Minh on April 5, 2011

• 5th SEACOOP Cooperation event in Phnom Penh on April 7, 2011

These events, under the aegis of the European Commission and of the ASEAN Secretariat, would aim at exploring more in detail, at the ASEAN regional or bilateral levels, which concrete cooperation could develop in the short to medium term.

More information on these events will be provided in the coming weeks. Please stay tuned!

A cooperation forum on EU-Asia-Pacific Cooperation on ICT research has been organised today in Brussels by the EURASIAPAC project.

Over 50 attendees have participated in this event, which started with a formal opening session during which officials from the European Commission delivered a welcome address, followed by an overview of S&T cooperation activities in Asia-Pacific countries.

Then the coordinator has introduced the EURASIAPAC project followed by a presentation from the European Commission on how ICT organisations from the given countries can be involved in joint EU-funded R&D projects and national programs with European organisation, with a specific focus on the ICT Call 7.

After the lunch, other European initiatives focusing on Asia-Pacific (KORANET, J-BILAT, KORRIDOR, ACCESS4EU, FRENZ, PACE-NET) were given the opportunity during a panel discussion to introduce their activities and share their vision to foster cooperation opportunities between the two regions.

The afternoon wrap-up session focused on recommendations and suggestions to generate successful ICT research cooperation.

Finally a networking cocktail was organized to facilitate further interaction amongst participants, and has friendly closed the meeting.

An event report can be downloaded here, the attendee list is available on the EURASIAPAC webiste, while the presentations can be downloaded in the online agenda and the pictures in the photo gallery section of EURASIAPAC website.