How can European Commission programmes foster the scientific colaborations with Brazil

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How can European Commission programmes foster the
scientific colaborations with Brazil

• Paulo Egler
• Centre to Support the Technological Development
  (CDT/UnB)
• Centre of Advanced Studies of Government and
  Public Administration (CEAG/UnB)
• Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and
  Technology (Ibict/MCT)

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Diagnose

• Latin America and Europe have a long tradition in
  science and technology cooperation.
• However, four main trends/problems could be
  identified from the LA side
• The cooperation is more academic than
  technological
• Its functioning is more personal based than
  institutional based
• Lack of a policy that could establish a priority
  agenda and a budget for the cooperation and
• The information concerning the context of and
  opportunities for cooperation is precarious.

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Typologies of International Cooperation
SPONTANEOUS
ACTION
Resource-dependent Research
Scientist-Initiated Research
DISTRIBUTED
CENTRALISED
RESOURCES
Dynamic Cooperation
Megascience
ORGANISED
RAND, 2002
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Co-operation in the Globalization Era

• International cooperation in science, technology
  and innovation is not by default an win win
  activity.
• It is an activity that demands novel conceptual
  resources
• Cosmopolitanism

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Co-operation in the Globalization Era

• It is an activity where the rules should be very
  clear and agreed by the partners
• e.g., Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
• It is an activity that needs some
  demystification
• e.g., Brain drain
• It is an activity that requires some tools
• e.g., Mobility and
• Up to date and available information.

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Co-operation in the Globalization Era

• It is an activity that should be monitored and
  evaluated in order not only to verify the
  achieved results but also to permit
  re-orientations of the actions being
  implemented.
• e.g., the establishment of a set of
  quantitative and qualitative indicators that
  could measure the international cooperation.

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Brazilian Nowadays Setting

• Perception of the need for the discussion and/or
  adoption of conceptual models, policies and
  rules for guiding the international cooperation
  practices
• Setting up of procedures and tools that could
  demonstate the advantages of the international
  cooperation activities and also to facilitate and
  improve them.

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• Project B.Bice and BB.Bice

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A successful initiative

• In October 2005 the activities of Project B.Bice
  were initiated.
• The project was supported by funds of the 6th FP.

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What were the main activities?

• The aim of B-BICE was to foster and enhance the
  cooperation in Science, Technology and Innovation
  STI between Brazil and the European Union.
• The Bureau acted as a mechanism to improve the
  participation of Brazil in the 6th and 7th
  Framework Programmes, through the identification
  and dissemination of information concerning
  research priorities, possible partners,
  preparation of project proposals and use of
  financial mechanisms.

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• Another additional function for B-BICE was to
  keep a permanent contact and flow of information
  with the other three Latin American countries
  with bilateral cooperation agreement in ST with
  the EU Argentina, Chile, and Mexico in order
  to look for a coordination and integration of the
  four countries when dialoguing with the EC and
  preparing and presenting project proposals in
  response to the FP calls.

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How its activities were organised?

• B-BICE activities were organized in five main
  actions
• Establishment of a web site
• Development of a data base
• Realization of meetings and workshops
• Development of training activities concerning how
  to set up a proposal and
• Establishment of procedures and mechanisms for
  partner finding.

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What were the results?

• Establishment and maintenance of a comprehensive
  web site
• Development of a data base with institutional
  information not fully realised
• Establishment of a help desk on 7th FP matters
• Diffusion of information concerning
  opportunities in the 7th Framework Programme.

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• Improvement of the Brazilian participation in the
  calls of the 7th FP.
• Contribute to an EU-LA dialogue on STI.
• Establishment of a coordination mechanism with
  similar offices in Argentina, Chile, and Mexico,
  in order to promote a synergy among them, and
  also to prepare joint research proposals in
  response to FP calls.

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The new B.Bice

• On December 2007 the European Commission
  announced the approval of a new project with the
  main objective of maintaining the activities
  initiated by Project B.Bice.
• The Project BB.Bice will cover a three years
  period, and is installed in CDT/UnB and
  Ibict/MCT.
• The project was initiated on October 2008.

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• Besides maintaining the majority of the former
  activities the project has included new ones
• Analytical activities development of studies
  evaluations and surveys
• Mapping activities - development of activities
  and events aimed at identifying priorities for
  collaboration and
• Coordination activities improve and expand
  contacts with European institutions (governmental
  and non-governmental), and also with information
  platforms offices in other ICPCs countries (e.g.
  South Africa, India, South Korea and China).

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Map of Brazilian Competence in STI

• European enterprises, research institutions and
  universities do not have information regarding
  the Brazilian competences in STI
• There are still deficiencies in Brazil regarding
  procedures for international co-operation in STI
  (web sites in English)
• Lack of dissemination materials regarding
  Brazilian competences in STI (mainly in English)

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Map of Brazilian Competence in STI

• Demand for setting up a data base, which includes
  information of both Brazilian research
  institutions and technological based enterprises
  (bilingual)
• The collection of information will not be
  exhaustive, since the objective of the data base
  is to serve as an instrument that could mainly
  help European institutions or researchers to know
  about the Brazilian developments in RD and
  find/contact which institution has this RD
  capacity.

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Map of Brazilian Competence in STI

• The data base will permit the development of two
  products
• The first will be a data base of institutional
  nature, which will be structured having as
  reference the 10 FP7 thematic areas in order to
  facilitate the international co-operation actions.

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Map of Brazilian Competence in STI

• The second will be the elaboration of texts, as
  booklets (in English and Portuguese), which
  content will characterize for each of the ten FP7
  thematic areas and their sub-themes, the national
  competence in RD and which are the main research
  institutions and enterprises that develop the
  investigations.
• These booklets will be distributed in Europe.

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Projects approved in FP7 with the participation
of Brazilian Iinstitutions.
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Proposals with Brazilian participants accepted in
the cooperation sub-programme.
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Brazilian institutions that have presented more
than 5 proposals
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Success rate based on approved projects
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• Thank you so much!
• Paulo Egler
• pegler_at_unb.br
• pegler_at_ibict.br