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Mediterranean Science, Policy, Research & Innovation Gateway
The Mediterranean Science, Policy, Research and Innovation Gateway (MED-SPRING) is a Coordination Action financed by the INCO-Net instrument under the FP7 - Capacities Programme. The aim of the Project is to contribute to the quality of the Euro-Mediterranean research area, with a particular focus on the bi-regional Euro-Mediterranean S&T cooperation, research and innovation, policy dialogue and cooperation monitoring.
Please find below the list of contents of this newsletter:
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Welcome to the first edition of Newsletter series of the MEDSPRING!
This newsletter has the purpose of informing on and involving researchers, students, active citizens, policy makers and governmental officers in a renewed strategy for the Euro-Mediterranean partnership, with a particular focus on the Euro-Mediterranean Science & Technology cooperation.The purpose of this strategy is to improve the quality of the Euro-Mediterranean dialogue, particularly increasing knowledge share, level of coownership and networking among governmental institutions, research organizations, associations and NGOs, also involving civil society in the institutional dialogue. The MED-SPRING dialogue addresses three regional societal challenges: energy, high quality affordable food, scarcity of resources. In this quarterly Newsletter you will read about the main progresses made by the project on the dialogue and networking in these thematic areas. Each issue of the newsletter will address one of the three specific societal challenges and, through articles and interviews, will allow also to virtually connect with the main RTD actors of the region.
With this Newsletter, we also intend to create a trustful relationship with the reader and we invite you to actively participate with your feedback, comments and contributions in the next issues. To this regards, you will find all the necessary information within this issue".
The MEDSPRING project Coordinator
Would you like to know more about the three MEDSPRING Societal Challenges?
The Euro-Mediterranean Agora is our platform to stimulate participation and discussion of civil society and stakeholders on research and innovation accounting for Water, Food and Energy. We kindly invite you to visit the Euro-Mediterranean Agora and also follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
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The Monitoring Committee for the Euro-Mediterranean cooperation in RTD (Hungary, June 2011) strongly underlined the need of adapting the Euro-Mediterranean research and innovation policies and cooperation to the changing Mediterranean society. MED-SPRING, built on the previous experience of the INCO.NET MIRA, but adapted to the new reality of the Euro-Mediterranean policy and the general orientations defined in the Euro-Mediterranean Conference of Barcelona (2-3 April 2012), is focused on three societal challenges (Energy, High Quality Affordable Food, and Scarcity of resources) and aims at tackling policy objectives by creating a dialogue and coordination platform of governmental institutions, research organisations, associations and civil society.
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MED-SPRING Kick Off Meeting
1st Euro-Mediterranean Expert Group (EMEG) Meeting
Euro-Mediterranean Inter-Institutional and training awareness meeting
1st Meeting of the Euro-Mediterranean Observatories
Calls/Programmes
Last calls for Marie Curie individual Actions! Please visit FP7 and CIP to know the latest calls for proposals, and also HORIZON 2020 to know the last novelties of this programme
Aquaknight Project - 1st International Conference
Week of Innovative Regions in Europe (WIRE IV)
4th INCO Conference
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MED-SPRING Partner 12: Direction de la Technologie. Ministère de la Education Superior, de la Formation des Cadres et de la Recherche Scientifique (Morocco)
Former FP7-INCO.Net-MIRA Deputy Coordinator, the Direction of Technology aims at promoting the technological development and innovation in Morocco by implementing different programmes and incentives to encourage the valorization of research result, and also the links between the academic and private sectors. The Direction hosts as well the Moroccan FP7 Information Point and manages a network of 27 Institutional Contacts Points existing in Moroccan Universities, Institutes and Research Centers.
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INTERVIEW: Prof. Dr. Laila Mandi
Brief CV
Prof. Dr. Laila MANDI is full professor of Environmental Sciences at the University Cadi Ayyad, Marrakech (Morocco). Her research Interests are: water management, rational use of water, wastewater treatment, recycling and reuse, water quality. In 2001, she was nominated as a National Co-ordinator of the Pole of competences on “water and Environment” which represents a Moroccan cluster developing research on the topic of “integrated water resources management”. In 2007, she was nominated as a Director of the National Centre for Studies and Research on Water and Energy (CNEREE) at the University Cadi Ayyad. She is recognised internationally as expert, evaluator and reviewer in the domain of water and environment. She was involved in several EU and non EU projects. Has published several peer-reviewed scientific papers and book chapters; spoken also at national, international conferences and workshops as lecturer.
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International Cooperation (IC) will continue being tackled as a main topic in the coming European Research and Innovation Framework Programme “Horizon 2020”. However, based on the available information, there are many novelties respect to the traditional models to support IC, while the main fact, the opening of the Programme to international
participation, is maintained. For instance, the emphasis is put in the co-ownership to support projects of common interest between the EU and the third countries or regions.
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