The European Research Area and Pockets of Knowledge Growth in the Social Sciences

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The European Research Area and Pockets of
Knowledge Growth in the Social Sciences
Humanities in the non-EU CountriesThe Case of
RussiaEuropean University at St.
Petersburg21-22 September 2006What did we
learn from the EU-Russia cooperation in the FP6?
Programme Manager Mikko YlikangasAcademy of
Finland
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Russia and NIS active in FP6

• Russias participation has been very active in
  FP6
• Of the non-EU countries and regions only Russia
  and new independent states participated in all
  FP6 activities

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Strong areas

• Russia has been active in almost all priority
  areas but extremely active in
• Information society technology
• Nanotechnologies and nanosciences
• Aeronautics and space
• Sustainable development
• Less activity in priority theme 5 (Food quality
  and safety)
• Russians have participated successfully also in
  the horizontal research activities involving SMEs

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Good ground for FP7

• There is mutual sincere interest for scientific
  cooperation
• Top researchers in Russia and in EU can find each
  other and start cooperation
• Cooperation on project level is active
• The variety of cooperation between EU and Russia
  is broad
• Growing need of extended cooperation between
  Russia and EU
• Where/when SSH do come in?

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Practical Finnish-Russian research and research
funding cooperation

• Russia in Flux research programme (incl. RFH
  2005)
• Baltic Sea research programme Bireme (incl.
  RFBR)
• Bonus ERA-NET
• Substance Use and Addictions research programme
  with RFBR and RFH 2006
• Optical material research joint call with RFBR
  2006
• Business Know-How joint call with RFH 2006
• Materials technology, and Biosciences joint call
  with RFBR 2007(?)

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EURAB report recommendation 1

• A new competitive international system of science
  and technology has emerged
• The EC needs a new proactive international policy
  in science and technology to
• strengthen its scientific, technological and
  economic position
• help to solve global environmental, health and
  other problems
• give opportunities to EU researchers to develop
  strong international partnerships
• The EC has to develop large, visible projects
  that would attract attention

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EURAB report recommendation 2

• Mutual interest is important for true cooperation
• Win-win situation needed
• Priority to make Europe attractive for the best
  researchers in the world and for investment in
  scientific infrastructures
• The EC should revitalise the European RD system
  by
• investing new resources in
• lowering barriers to cross-border mobility as
  well as between the public and private sectors at
  national, intergovernmental and EU level

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EURAB report recommendation 3

• Right kinds of instruments needed for each non-EU
  region to promote international cooperation and
  to properly address the interests of different
  partners
• EU needs in this respect more flexibility, more
  boldness to rethink new forms of action
• European challenges exists outside Europe, as
  well climate change, drug and human trafficking,
  and human rights are also European challenges
• Multi- and interdisciplinary research needed to
  cope with these challenges gt social sciences and
  humanities ought to play important role

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EURAB report recommendation 4

• The Commission should establish an efficient
  management structure to initiate and coordinate
  international actions across administrative
  boundaries
• All such units, which have international RD
  activities, should be in closer contact with each
  other
• The potential clients should be able to get all
  needed information coordinated

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EURAB report recommendation 5

• International cooperation should become an
  integral part of the FPs and it should receive
  adequate funding
• Each theme should have a single horizontal budget
  line for international cooperation to ensure
  participation of EU and non-EU research
  communities in research actions
• This budget should be reallocated to the themes
  on the work programme level and adjusted in
  regular updates according to the needs and
  capacity to utilise resources

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