Symposium

“Ways of successful science, technology and innovation cooperation between Europe and the USA”

23 -24 April 2012

MID TOWN Meeting and Businesscenter
Ungargasse 64-66, A-1040 Vienna, Austria

Purpose & Scope

The symposium was organised in cooperation between the BILAT-USA project and the Strategic Forum for International S&T Cooperation (SFIC) which is a partnership between the EU Members States and the European Commission.

BILAT-USA is a project funded by the 7^th Framework Programme to improve the awareness towards EU-U.S. Science & Technology cooperation through setting up a sustainable, knowledge based, and bi-regional dialogue platform between S&T key players as well as stakeholders from the EU-Member States and Associated countries and from the United States. The project includes various information- and awareness-raising actions, such as establishing a comprehensive web-site and databases dedicated to EU-U.S. STI cooperation, organizing a number of specialized thematic and training workshops and staging high-level events both at the scientific level as well as at the political and policy-making level.

The overall objective of the symposium was to analyse barriers related to framework conditions and legal governance for ST&I cooperation with U.S. partners and to put forward recommendations on how to develop solutions. The symposium brought together SFIC members and observers, representatives of national ministries, research organisations and funding agencies, as well as researchers.

The symposium started in the morning of 23 April 2012 and ended around lunchtime of 24 April 2012.

The first part of the symposium was dedicated to the results of the BILAT-USA survey carried out among FP7 EU project coordinators and participating U.S. organisations and their views on legal, administrative and funding obstacles.
In the second part of the symposium “practitioners” and experts presented solutions and showcase reliable administrative and legal arrangements of their activities with U.S. partners.

Agenda

The detailed agenda is available here.

Presentations

The following presentations were given at the event:

	Speaker	Title
Keynote Speeches	Manfred HORVAT Vienna University of Technology, Austria	EU-USA S&T cooperation in a global context
	Carmen HUBER National Science Foundation, Europe Office, France	Perspectives on Europe-USA Cooperation in Basic Science and Engineering Research
	O. Sinan TUMER SAP Research, SAP Labs, LLC, USA	Perspectives on Europe-USA Cooperation in Basic Science and Engineering Research

Plenary Session	Ralf KÖNIG Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)	BILAT-USA and Link2US - 2 complementary projects enhancing EU-U.S. S&T cooperation Results of the BILAT-USA survey on legal governance in FP7 projects with U.S. partners
	Martin BAUMGARTNER Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)	Legal obstacles to US participation in FP7 projects
	Gerhard PAAR JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH	Co-operation SPACE with US Partners

Round Table No. 1	José Miguel BELLO VILLARINO European Commission DG Enterprise	Space research collaboration with NASA: The Working Arrangement
	Rafael DE ANDRÉS MEDINA ISCIII, Spain	IRDiRC as a multilateral research cooperation framework with US NIH
	Sophie FERRAND ANR, France	The G8 Research Councils Initiative on Multilateral Research Funding

Round Table No. 2	Peter ERTL Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria	Needs of researchers in administrative and funding frameworks for collaborative research with the USA
	Tiina KOTTI Academy of Finland (AKA)	Collaboration between Finnish and US researchers
	Per BRODERSEN MPG, Germany	Teaming up. The United States as scientific partner of the Max Planck Society

Round Table No. 3	Berit JOHNE The Research Council of Norway (RCN)	Nordic Research Opportunity – a collaboration with NSF
	Sophie FERRAND ANR, France	ANR-NSF bilateral cooperation in the framework of ICC and MWN
	Paulo FERRÃO MIT-Portugal Programme	MIT-Portugal Programme
	Zygmunt KRASIŃSKI IPPT-PAN, Poland	Top 500 Innovators Science-Management-Commercialization Collaboration between Poland and the USA
	Rainer GIRGENRATH PT-DLR, Germany	US-German funding collaboration in Computational Neuroscience

Round Table No. 4	Carmen HUBER National Science Foundation, Europe Office, France	Science Across Virtual Institutes (SAVI) Program
	Christina TREEGER Fraunhofer, Germany	Fraunhofer Centers in the USA
	Antonio LÓPEZ-GAY Center for Demographic Studies Barcelona, Spain	The IPUMSI – IECM Partnership to provide access to census microdata to social science researchers
	Ulrich SCHÄFFLER German Federal Ministry of Education and Research	Bilateral S&T agreements as chance for a successful cooperation

Conclusions	Gonzalo León SERRANO Vice President for Research, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Representative of the Strategic Forum for International S&T Cooperation	Lessons learned and concluding remarks

Report

The BILAT-USA/ SFIC workshop report is available here:

Questions & Contact

1) for BILAT-USA issues:
Elli. B. Tzatzanis-Stepanovic
Project Manager
FFG - Austrian Research Promotion Agency
Divison European and International Programmes
Sensengasse 1
A-1090 Vienna, Austria
E-mail: elli.stepanovic@ffg.at

2) for SFIC issues:
Claudia Bernarding
International Bureau of the
Federal Ministry of Education and Research at the Project Management Agency c/o German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Heinrich-Konen-Str. 1
53227 Bonn, Germany
Email: Claudia.Bernarding@dlr.de

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