M editerranean S cience, P olicy, R esearch and I nnovation G ateway - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Mediterranean Science, Policy, Research and Innovation Gateway

Claudio Bogliotti Paris, 19 December 2013

Support action to a reviewed Euro- Mediterranean Cooperation on R&I

• More focus on innovation
• Renewed EU-ENP countries partnership
• Focus on Societal challenges and H2020

Support action to a reviewed Euro- Mediterranean Cooperation on R&I

• Co-ownership
• Long-lasting north-south cooperation
• Socio-Economic and political changes

in the MPC: engage civil society

Overarching actions

• Reflection on societal challenges, including

monitoring

• Networking, brokerage, capacity building
• Support build synergies for joint programming

(long lasting cooperation)

• Support policy dialogue (MoCo, Papers,

monitoring)

WP4 Open dialogue on RI: the “Euro- Mediterranean Agora” WP2 Societal challenges to reinforce the frame of cooperation WP5 Brokerage for innovation and research cooperation WP9 Support to inter- institutional and policy dialogue WP8 Policy, societal challenges and cooperation

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WP6 Institutional and funding synergies WP7 Capacity building in research, development and innovation

WP3 - Project portal, knowledge management and dissemination

Think tank, open dialogue, brokerage, networking Capacity building, monitoring, modelling Institutional, policy, policy dialogue

WP1 - Project coordination and management

Societal challenges addressed

• High Quality Affordable Food: food security and

safety, biodiversities, health, fisheries and aquaculture, food-chain in pre to post-harvesting.

• Scarcity of resources: water scarcity, water use

efficiency, use of non-conventional water

• Energy: energy efficiency, solar energy, photovoltaic,

wind, bio-energy, applications.

Horizontal and analytical issues

• Policy
• Socio-economics
• Climate
• Governance
• Gender

Relevant outcomes first 10 months

• WP2 – « Participatory » position paper
• WP4 – Well functioning Euro-

Mediterranean Agora

• WP5 – Launch of a call for innovative ideas

for preparing brokerage on innovation in Cairo (February 2014)

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Relevant outcomes first 10 months

• WP6 - Inter-institutional meeting on joint

programming (July, Beirut), mapping of research programmes in MPCs

• WP7 – Two training events (Beirut, Amman)
• WP 8 – Up-date by CNRS-L/CNRS-F
• WP9 – Assessment indicators

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• Think tank: resource efficiency (water), high quality

affordable food, energy.

• Task 1: LISBON 20-21 June – Research valorisation: topics &

solutions to create market opportunities, new jobs, innovation.

• Task 2: Policies
• Task 3: Water-Food-Energy nexus

EMEG (Euro-Mediterranean Expert Group)

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EMEG Structure

• More than 45 experts
• Well balanced
• Three groups
• Special participation:

UfM, T-Platforms, FP7 project coordinators, Arab Water Forum,……..etc.

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• 1. Identifying “topics or niches” favorable for research

results uptake and market opportunities.

• 2. Identifying solutions (market, youths oriented)
• 3. Partnership / clusters
• 4. Barriers and factors enhancing impact
• 5. Type of actions

EMEG 1st Task

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The Lisbon workshop cycle

Background documentation Agora public consultation EMEG Lisbon Workshop Position paper Back to Agora

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Open consultation

• Researchers,

young researchers, students, policy makers, entrepreneurs, NGOs, associations, web communities

• Listen

to

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unheard voices and make good use of them with the aim

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creating “participatory papers”

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Main outcomes - Water

Open Consultation EMEG Meeting

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Main outcomes - Food

Open Consultation EMEG Meeting

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Main outcomes - Energy

Open Consultation EMEG Meeting

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Overarching paradigms

Resources efficiency - Water: “Managing water resources under scarcity, pollution and uncertain conditions while improving agricultural water use efficiency as well as treatment and re-use

• f non-conventional water” .

High quality affordable Food: “Integrated development and rehabilitation of rural arid and semi-arid areas capitalizing on sustainable agriculture including traditional and organic farming, empowering rural communities and valorizing agricultural resources” . Energy: “Capitalizing on local large availability of solar energy, by developing adapted packages of solutions for sustainable remote communities, both in terms of supply and demand, in addition to promoting the well integrated penetration of renewable energy solutions in the inhabited areas, while taking into account local cultural heritage”.

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NEED A PARADIGM FOR THE NEXUS

Resource efficiency

High Quality Affordable Food

Energy

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WP8 - OBSERVATORY WP2 – Societal challenges EMEG recommendation Monitoring and scenarios WP4 – Agora Inputs from research WEB communities Working with society WP 6 – Long term joint programming Exchange

WP8 - OBSERVATORY WP7 – Capacity building Training opportunity WP9 – Support to policy dialogue Policy monitoring Scenarios and indicators to substantiate policy in the relevant societal challenges WP 2 EMEG

Wishes and attempts

• Contribution to common principles
• Reduce monitoring fragmentation
• Substantiate policy
• Twinning and federating
• Exploring ways and means of synergies

Partnership

Research Ministries Research Councils Research organisations / Universities NGOs and Associations Inter-governmental (CIHEAM-IAMB)

Countries

• MS: Italy, Spain, Germany, Portugal, France,

Greece, Malta, Cyprus, Belgium

• Mediterranean Countries associated to FP:

Turkey, Israel

• Mediterranean Countries non-associated:

Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan

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