Ongoing projects

ALCUE NET

Latin America, Caribbean and European Union Network on Research and Innovation

Duration:
01/12/2012 to 31/05/2017

Total:
Contribution for Uruguay – Euros 121.465.
Financed by the 7th Framework Programme for Research of the European Union.

ALCUE NET aims to establish a common platform for the responsible politicians of EU-ALC, research institutions and the private sector. It also aims to reinforce and extend the National Contact Points (NCP) in the Latin-American and Caribbean countries as well as to collaborate with other INCO-NET projects and bi-regional projects.

ALCUE NET provides support to CELAC-EU S&T in the process of policy dialogue CELAC-EU and the Joint Initiative on Research and Innovation (CELAC-EU JIRI) to implement during 2013 and 2017, reflecting the suggestions and recommendations made by the Senior Officials Meeting (SOM). 

Coordinator:
Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation (MINCyT – Argentina)

Partner:

·         Deutsches Zentrum Fuer Luft – Und Raumfahrt EV (DLR – Germany)

·         Zentrum Fuer Soziale Innovation (ZSI- Austria)

·         Caribean Science Foundation INC. (CSF – Barbados)

·         Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimiento Cientifico e Tecnologico (Brazil)

·         Ministerio da Ciencia e Tecnologia (MCT – Brazil)

·         Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICYT – Chile)

·         Instituto Colombiano para el Desarrollo de la Ciencia y la Tecnología (COLCIENCIAS – Colombia)

·         Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología (MICIT – Costa Rica)

·         Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO – Spain)

·         Teknologian Tutkimuske Skus VTT (VTT – Finland)

·         Centre de Coopearation International en Recherche Agronomique pour le Development (CIRAD – France)

·         Institut de Recherche Pour le Developpement (IRD – France)

·         Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT – Mexico)

·         Norges Forskningsrad (RCN – Norway)

·         Secretaría Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (SENACYT- Panama)

·         Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (FCT – Portugal)

·         Ministerio de Educación Superior, Ciencia y Tecnología (MESCYT – Dominican Republic)

·         Ministerio de Educación y Cultura (MEC – Uruguay)

Working Packages (WPs)

·         WP1 Bi-regional policy ALC-EU dialogue on research and innovation

·         WP2 Cope with social challenges through actions carried out in the thematic priority of Energy, of the components of the Joint Initiative on Research and Innovation (JIRI-Energy).

·         WP3 Cope with social challenges through actions carried out in the thematic priority of ICT of the components of JIRI – ICT

·         WP4 Cope with social challenges through actions carried out in the thematic priority of Bioeconomy, including food security, of the components of JIRI – Bioeconomy.

·         WP5 Cope with social challenges through actions carried out in Biodiversity, contributing to the thematic priority of climate change, of the components of JIRI- Biodiversity.

·         WP6 Capacity building and network creation

·         WP7 Information management, monitoring, evaluation and quality control (MEC)

·         WP8 Coordination and management

Uruguay Innova

Support contract to innovation and territorial cohesion policies

Uruguay has been heavily promoting a policy in science, technology and innovation on a national level and especially established linked of linkages and international networks.

Accordingly, since 2008, the Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC) has created the Liaison Bureau with the European Union (EU) which has, among others, the responsibility to encourage participation of researchers, academic institutions and enterprises in various calls for tender, particularly in those of the 7th Cooperation Framework Programme. The EU has launched a new program, called Horizon 2020.

This project is included in the framework cooperation agreement between the European Union and Uruguay (2007-2013), in the support programme of innovation and territorial cohesion policies (INNOVA + INTEGRA II).

Uruguay INNOCA is program executed by the cooperation of the European Union in Uruguay which promotes specific actions to cover the full knowledge value chain in order to raise and share such knowledge.

The program Uruguay INNOVA performs four main lines of action:
1) Supporting the Institut Pasteur de Montevideo as excellence centrum, supporting the implementation of leading research programs for young scientists, as well as international courses in areas of the leading edge of knowledge in Biotechnology.
2) Supporting the internationalization process of the Center of Software Testing, so that the Center would be able to sell its services abroad, in a competitive market.
3) Transforming the Pando Technology Pole (PTP) in the Pando Scientific Technology Park, set up by law in 2008. 
4) Promoting the application of R+D in clustering processes with a focus on the county`s interior to increase synergies between the public and the private sector.

The MEC participates in the project by the following components:

·         Capacity Building in Uruguay in order to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the Framework Programmes for Research of the EU.

·         Realization of training activities (courses and/or workshops), diffusion of themes linked with the framework programmes

·         Once the trainings are realized, a network of synergies will be created.

Duration:
23/08/2012 to 23/08/2015

Total:
Contribution to the MEC – Euros 105.000.
Financed by the European Commission