Overview
Project title: Supporting EU Access to Canadian Research and Innovation Programmes
Funding from the EU: €499,714
Project start: September 2009
Duration: 36 months
Contact at the European Commission: Philippe Froissard
Project coordinator: Agenzia per la Promozione della Ricerca Europea (APRE)
Contact at the IB: Patrick Ziegler
Partners
- Agenzia per la Promozione della Ricerca Europea (APRE), Italy
- Peter L. Eggleton (Telligence), Canada
- International Commerce Associates (ICA), Canada
- Public Knowledge Canada / Savoir Public Canada (PKC), Canada
- International Bureau of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) (IB), Germany
- Institut Pasteur (IP), France
Role of the International Bureau
The International Bureau was in charge of Work Package 2 and also actively involved in the other three work packages. The central task in Work Package 2 was to organise and hold information events about participation opportunities for German and other European researchers under Canadian research programmes.
The International Bureau coordinated the development of a joint web portal for all 11 Access4EU projects and was actively involved in the working groups for the development of a joint funding database and a joint dissemination strategy.
Highlights
1/2 October 2010 – Kick-off meeting in Rome
7 December 2010 – Benchmarking workshop: Promoting Canadian-European S&T Cooperation
Project status and interim results
Project start: 1 September 2009
Activities planned until July 2010
18 February 2010 – official launch of the website
All project activities are divided into four work packages (WPs):
WP1 – "Opportunities and obstacles to accessing Canadian research and innovation programmes"
- Take stock of Canadian funding programmes that are open to researchers from EU countries
- Compile and analyse access conditions
- Review bilateral R&D agreements
- Produce an annually updated roadmap about programmes, calls for proposals and bilateral agreements
WP2 – Awareness raising & dissemination
- Draw European researchers’ attention to funding opportunities within Canadian research and innovation programmes
- Support European researchers’ participation in these programmes through targeted information and advice
WP3 - Monitoring EU participation and feedback to EC and JSTCC
- Gather information on / monitor the participation of EU researchers in Canadian research and innovation programmes
- Report back to the European Commission and issue recommendations that can be used in negotiations about STC agreements
- Observe changes in access conditions for European researchers who want to participate in Canadian funding programmes during the course of the project
- Develop proposals on how European–Canadian cooperation in research and innovation can be improved
WP4 – Management
- Coordination of the activities in the Access2Canada project and project management