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1st INCO Conference "Supporting Research Integration", Athens 9-10 June 2010

Until today activities carried out within the INCO Work Programmes in FP7 have supported bi-regional cooperation with different regions of the world INCO-Nets, bilateral cooperation partnerships with countries the EU has S&T agreements (BILATs) and supported programmes to coordinate national activities (ERA-NET). The aim of the Work Programme 2011 is first of all to consolidate the activities initiated in 2010 in order to reach broad policy goals as well as to contribute to the implementation of the Strategic Forum for International S&T Cooperation (SFIC).
Planned activities in 2011 are: Reinforcing cooperation with Europe’s neighbours in the context of the ERA (ERA-WIDE activities): The objective of this activity is to promote closer scientific cooperation with the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) partner countries and to prepare their possible association to the Framework Programmes. The activities covered by the call are networking with research centres, developing training modules to build competency for FP7 and developing strategies in order to increase the visibility of research centres. Targeted areas are Eastern Europe and South Caucasus and the Mediterranean Countries.
Strengthening Europe research facilities in third countries (INCO-LAB activities): The objective if the INCO-Lab activity is to use the joint research institutes funded by one or several Member States and located in third countries as a catalyst to structure and increase the cooperation with third countries. In order to achieve this objective, the activity should cover the physical participation of researchers from MS / AS in the joint institute, the enhancement of the research capacity of the joint institute and the preparation and implementation of future joint activities. Target areas are Brazil, China, India, Japan, Russia and the US.
Moving towards European Houses of Science (INCO-HOUSE): This activity is complementary to the INCO-LAB activity. Its goal is to support the opening of the institutional arrangement of joint institutes funded by one or several MS / AS. In order to achieve this objective, the activity would cover the cost of a feasibility study as well as coordination costs linked to the involvement of additional institutions. As a pilot activity, the call will target joint institutes located in India only.

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