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

M editerranean S cience, P olicy, R esearch and I nnovation G ateway 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)

Think tank, open dialogue, brokerage, networking WP3 - Project portal, knowledge management and WP2 WP4 WP5 WP1 - Project coordination and management Societal Open dialogue on Brokerage for challenges to RI: the “Euro - innovation and reinforce the Mediterranean research frame of Agora” cooperation cooperation Capacity building, monitoring, modelling dissemination WP7 WP8 Capacity building Policy, societal in research, challenges and development and cooperation innovation observatory Institutional, policy, policy dialogue WP6 WP9 Institutional and Support to inter- funding synergies institutional and policy dialogue

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) 8

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 9

EMEG (Euro-Mediterranean Expert Group) • 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 10

EMEG Structure • More than 45 experts • Well balanced • Three groups • Special participation: UfM, T-Platforms, FP7 project coordinators, Arab Water Forum,……..etc. 11

EMEG 1 st Task 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 12

The Lisbon workshop cycle Background documentation Agora public Back to Agora consultation Position EMEG Lisbon paper Workshop 13

Open consultation • Researchers, young researchers, students, policy makers, entrepreneurs, NGOs, associations, web communities • Listen to often unheard voices and make good use of them with the aim of creating “participatory papers” 14

Main outcomes - Water Open EMEG Consultation Meeting 15

Main outcomes - Food Open EMEG Consultation Meeting 16

Main outcomes - Energy Open EMEG Consultation Meeting 17

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 of 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” . 18

NEED A PARADIGM FOR THE NEXUS High Quality Affordable Food Energy Resource efficiency 19

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

WP7 – Capacity building Training opportunity WP8 - OBSERVATORY 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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