INCONTACT Workshop in Mexico, Puebla, 17-20 November, 2008
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INCONTACT Regional Workshop for Latin America, Mexico City, and Puebla, Puebla, Mexico 17th – 20th of November, 2008
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Latin American Workshop of INCONTACT , 17th -20th November 2008
Puebla, Puebla from November 17th to 19th and an open session to the Mexican Scientific and Technological community, on November 20th at the UNAM.
The Latin American Workshop was organized by UEMEXCYT, CONACYT in Mexico, with the collaboration of APRE and the coordinator of the project.
Invitations have been sent to almost all the NCP’s-INCO, including NCP’s from other regions, for those, it was explained that their participation should be covered by them, that is the case of the SSH NCP from the Archimedes Foundation, from Estonia and the Manager, EU Afffairs, ERC back up NCP from the Academy of Finland, that came to the Workshop. But the efforts were concentrated on the Latin American participants.
Invitations have been specifically sent to the following Latin American INO-NCP’s: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Uruguay. At the same time, considering the compromises of the 2nd Mesoamerican-European Union Meeting for Cooperation in Science and Technology, there were sent invitations to the following Mesoamerican countries: El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá and Costa Rica.
INCONTACT Project Meeting
The first day, (November 17th) the coordinator and the partners of the consortium talked about their activities realized within the project.
Among those activities, there is the analysis of the answers to the INCONTACT Questionnaire to identify the needs and best practices of NCPs and NIPs. From the most important matters that many NCP have pointed out are:
- Bureaucracy, information on time about calls, not knowledge about structural aspects and technical language, low capacity for conforming consortiums, low institutional support for researchers when they receive an invitation to built a consortium and so on, low capacity of networking on Brussels.
- Communication, Identifying suitable partners, Cultural differences, Financial management of the project.
- Partnering brokerage.
- Reports complicated, funds arrives late, difficulties for management due to internal rules.
Another activity where all the partners can participate is the Wiki pedia, this instrumjent allows interaction and exchange of experience:
- INCO-Wiki is a user community for NCPs / NIPs.
- Provides a knowledge management system for internal documentation and communication.
- Provides information for NCP / NIP needs for their daily work.
Other activity that has to do with international cooperation is the Intercultural communication in research and technology projects. This activity is important due to the challenge presented by the different cultural approaches from partners for cooperation in very distant countries.
At the same time, it was presented the proposal Access4EU to the INCONTACT partners.
Latin American Workshop
The agenda of the workshop was very rich, plenty of presentations concerning the most important matters and details from the FP, since topics like: Writing a Successful Proposal, Submission, Evaluation, Negotiations with the Commission, Implementation, Legal and Financial Issues, LEAR, IPR Issues and NCP structures, Germany, Sweden, Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Uruguay presented the NCP structures. Even the Latin American participants showed a well level of knowledge about FP7 matters.
It was presented to the Latin American participants the instrument of visibility from the project: Wiki pedia and the Intercultural study that intends to facilitate the relationships between different cultural partners in cooperation.
The last day of the meeting was open to the Mexican Scientific and Technological community, with short presentations at the National Autonomous Mexican University (UNAM) one of the most important Mexicans institutions of research, with a high potential of cooperation. After those presentations, the Mexican participants in this session showed a real interest in the FP7. But more important, the informal exchange of experiences and best practices among the participants was very rich and this has permitted to continue in a very good climate for the following meeting of another project, the Latin American INCONET: European Union – Latin American Research and Innovation NET works (EULARINET).
FP7 Open day at the National Autonomous Mexican University (UNAM)
Conclusions
The Latin American INCONTACT Worshop allowed a fruitful exchange of experiences among all the participants and raised the interest from the scientific and technological Mexican community in the FP7. This will permit a better coordination among Mexican NCP’s but among Latin American and European INCO-NCP’s too.
Programme
Day 1: 17th November, 2008,
Arrival of the participants to Mexico City 10:30 am 1st Departure from Mexico to Puebla, for INCONTACT Partners
13:00 arrival to the hotel
14:00 – 15:00 lunch
15:00 - 18:30 INCONTACT Meeting ( only for Partners)
18:30 – 19:00 Presentation of Acces4EU scheme Patrick Séchet, IRD
20:00 Cocktail for all the participants
Day 2: 18 November, 2008, Puebla, Puebla - Specific training about the FP7
9:15 – 9:30 Welcome by the Project Coordinator and UEMEXCYT
9:30 – 10:00 ICPC participation (focusing in Central and Latin America), and participation opportunities (SICAs, targeted opening, etc.) in current and future calls. Philippe Froissard, E.U.
10:00 – 10:40 Project Cycle: Writing a Successful Proposal, Epaminondas Christophilopoulos, Transport & INCO NCP, HELP-FORWARD, Coordinator Project Greece
10:40 – 11:20 Proposal Submission • EPSS (A Forms, Part B template) • Overview of proposal sections Ethical Issues, Leonardo Piccinetti, Managing Director, Europe for Business
11:20 - 11:35 Coffee break
11:35 – 12:00 Proposal Evaluation, Gianluca Rossi, APRE, INCO&BIO NCP Italy
12:00 – 12:45 Practical exercise on evaluation Epaminondas Christophilopoulos,
12:45 – 13:15 Negotiations with the Commission, Constantine Vaitsas, HELP-FORWARD, Greece
13:15 – 13:45 Project Implementation, Leonardo Piccinetti, Managing Director, Europe for Business
13:45 – 15:00 Lunch
15:00 – 15:30 Legal Issues - LEAR, Monica Hjertman, VINNOVA, Sweden
15:30 – 16:00 Intellectual Property Rights, Monica Hjertman, VINNOVA, Sweden
16:00 – 16.20 Coffee break
16:20 – 17:00 Financial Rules, Epaminondas Christophilopoulos, Transport & INCO NCP, HELP-FORWARD, Coordinator Project Greece
17:20 – 18:00 Q&A session, Discussion and Wrap-up Epaminondas Christophilopoulos, Transport & INCO NCP, HELP-FORWARD, Greece
Day 3: November 19th, Puebla, Puebla- Best practices on NIP organizations, routine and networking
Strategic, structural and organization issues
9:20 – 9:45 INCONTACT objectives, Epaminondas Christophilopoulos, HELP-FORWARD
9:45 – 10:20 Results of INCONTACT questionnaires (needs/requests of INCO NCP/NIP network , Gianluca Rossi, APRE, INCO&BIO NCP Italy
10:20 – 10.50 NCP Structure in Germany, Cornelia Schneider, INCO NCP, PT-DLR
10:50 – 11:05 Coffee break
11:05 – 13:20
25 minutes for each present. Aprox. Presentations of NCP’s structures: How to adapt an NCP structure to the local (cultural) environment? 5 from Latin American countries
-María Elvira Vázquez, NCP Structure in Argentina
-Celso Ayala Vargas, NCP Bolivia
-Astrid Waltermann, NCP-INCO, Chile
-Sara Araujo, NCP-INCO, Colombia
13:20 – 14:00 NCP Business Plan, Leonardo Piccinetti, Managing Director, Europe for Business
14:00 – 15:15 Lunch
Functional and operational issues
15:15 – 16:15 Infodays, promotion and brokerage events, information dissemination, advise to proposers, Karin Hjorth Rybbes, Deputy Director, International Collaboration & Networks, VINNOVA, Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems NCP Structure from Sweden
16:15 – 16:45 Partner search dissemination: Massive versus strategic, Gianluca Rossi, APRE, INCO&BIO NCP Italy
16:45 – 17:30 Presentation of the Wikipedia + Draft from Intercultural study, Cornelia Schneider, NCP International Cooperation, PT-DLR
17:30 – 18:00 Confidentiality and impartiality of the INCO NCPs Ülle Must, Estonia Archimedes Foundation
18:00 – 18:30 Feedback of INCO NCP’s to the EC to promote international cooperation policies (coordination with EURALINET) Daniel Villavicencio, INCO-NCP for Mexico
18:30 – 19:00 Conclusions
Day 4: November 20th - Update on the Seventh Framework Program (open to scientists), Mexico City
Overview of the Programme COOPERATION: Results of the first calls, new and expected calls - Public session at the “Unidad de Seminarios Ignacio Chávez, UNAM Vivero Alto, dentro del Jardín Botánico, Costado del CCH Sur Ciudad Universitaria, México, D.F.
14:30 – 17:30 - Overview of legal and financial aspects of FP7, Monica Hjertman, VINNOVA, Sweden
- Opportunities for ICPC countries + Writing a successful proposal, Epaminondas Christophilopoulos, HELP-FORWARD, Greece
- FAFB, Gianluca Rossi, APRE, INCO&BIO NCP Italy
- ERC + IDEAS Tiina Vihma-Purovaara, Academy of Finland
- Socio-Economic Sciences & the Humanities, Ülle Must, Estonia, Archimedes Foundation
17:40 – 17:50 Coffee break
17:50 – 18:10 Presentation du NCP-NMP Mexicain, Mauricio Terrones, NCP NMP
18:10 – 18:30 Overview of the Programme CAPACITIES,Cornelia Schneider , PT-DLR
18:30 – 18:50 Overview of the Programme PEOPLE, Ma. Elvira Vázquez, NCP Argentina
