Presentación de Estrella Fernández (Subdirectora General Adjunta de Programas Internacionales del Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad del Gobierno de España) en la jornada CMN de Investigación en el Mediterráneo, celebrada en la UPCT el 26 de noviembre de 2012.

1. OVERVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL COLABORATION
WITHIN THE MEDITERRANEAN
MINISTRY OF ECONOMY AND COMPETITIVENESS
Estrella Fernández García
Deputy Director Assistant for International Projects
Directorate General for Scientific and Technical Research

2. ABOUT US
- Recent and Future Governance Changes.
- Our instruments and capabilities
- Universities, research centres, infrastructures
ON-GOING INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS EU FP7.
- INCO-Nets. CAAST-Net. MIRA. MED-SPRING
- ERA-Nets. FORESTERRA. ERAFRICA
- OPIS and CDTI bilateral agreements
FUTURE INICIATIVES WITHIN THE EU:
- ERA-MED-Net
- MEDINNA

3. Changes
in
the
Spanish
STI
governance
2011-­‐2013
May 2011 Approval of the new Act for Science, Technology
& Innovation
December 2011 Creation of a new Ministry of Economy and
Competitiveness
December 2012 New Spanish Strategy for Science, Technology and
Innovation / public consultation Oct. 2012
December 2012 New State Plan for Scientific and Technical
Research and Innovation /currently on public
S1-2013 Creation of the new State Research Agency

4. INSTRUMENTS: FROM BASIC SCIENCE TO INDUSTRY RESEARCH
Funding tools
of the R&D National Plan 2008-2012
Public-private
Infrastructures
Profit / Avanza
Fundamental
Programmes
programmes
5 Strategic
Consolider
Projects
Actions
Unique
CC.AA.
CENIT
CIBER
ICTS
CDTI
From long-term to short-term research
Basic Res. Oriented R&D Applied R&D&I
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5. R&D&I Ecosystem: Universities and research organisations
Centres BUDGET
(M€)
78 Universities distributed all
CSIC 126 634,04 over the geography
responsible of 26,7% of
CIEMAT 6 116,44 total R&D expenditure
IGME 2 43,95 Personnel:
78.846 people working
IEO 10 65,77
on R&D (FTE)
INIA 4 83,97
ISCIII 4 369,70
IAC 4 22,28
Foundations
INTA 6 100,00
Regional research centres
TOTAL
1.436,15 Technological centres
Scientific Parks
Personnel: more than 16.000 people
(12000 within CSIC) Private companies

7. ABOUT US
- Recent and Future Governance Changes.
- Our instruments and capabilities
- Universities, research centres, infrastructures
ON-GOING INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS. EU FP7.
- INCO-Nets. MIRA. CAAST-NET
- MED-SPRING
- ERA-Nets. FORESTERRA. ERAFRICA
- OPIS and CDTI bilateral agreements
FUTURE INICIATIVES WITHIN THE EU:
- ERA-Med-Net
- MEDINNA

8. European
7th
Framework
Programme.
INCO-­‐NETS
Promote and structure the participation of third countries in the activities of FP7.
Promote regional integration as well as identification and the prioritization of
common research areas of mutual interest and benefit.
Facilitate the uptake and use of common identified research areas and the
monitoring of performance and impacts of international S&T cooperation across
the Specific Programmes of FP7.
The INCO-NET projects can help to establish balanced partnerships, including
multiple international stakeholders (partners from research, industry,
government and civil society) for research actions.
http://www.miraproject.eu/ http://www.caast-net.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/

9. MINECO. Multilateral Cooperation. INCO-NETS
INCO-NET: MIRA Project: Mediterranean Innovation and
Research Coordination Action Community of Practice
Coordination: CSIC Spain
Spain Morocco
France Tunisia
Italiy Egypt
Germany Algeria
Romania Jordan
Greece Lebanon
Malta Palestine
Turkey territories
Israel http://www.miraproject.eu/
MIRA Final Conference, January 2013
New INCO-NET, MED-SPRING, kick off in 2013

10. MINECO. Multilateral Cooperation. INCO-nets
A Network for the Coordination and
Advancement of Sub-Saharan
Africa-EU Science & Technology Cooperation
Developed as a high-level platform, financed
by the European Union's FP7, to advance
international cooperation between Europe and
Africa for mutual benefit.
CAAST-Net's goal:
Increase quality and quantity of bi-regional
21 COUNTRIES IN AFRICA AND cooperation in S&T between Europe and Africa,
EUROPE, including targeting areas of mutual interest and benefit
Turkey, Egypt, Cap Vert, through greater use of instruments under the
Senegal, Kenya, FP7.
Madagascar, Ghana,
Uganda, Rwanda, Botswana,
Nigeria….
http://www.caast-net.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/

11. European 7th Framework Programme. ERA-NETS.
The aim of Era-Nets is the coordination of national research programmes to build the ERA.
The ERA-NET projects establish balanced partnerships, and make it possible
the launching of MULTILATERAL CALLS. National funding of the projects.
Thematic ERA-Nets
Coordination of national research programmes in
specific areas, usually within the EU members and
associated countries, but they are also open to
third countries.
INCO-Programme.
Geographic Era-Nets, alike Inco-nets, promote and
structure the participation of third countries in the
activities of FP7. Associated calls.

12. MINECO. ERA-nets. FORESTERRA
FOREST RESEARCH IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
FORESTERRA
Coordinator:
EFI-­‐MED-­‐MINECO,
Spain
(European
Forestry
Ins0tute)
Forests
are
crucial
for
water
Coordina0on
of
forest
research
in
the
conserva1on,
among
other
scarse
Mediterranean
countries.
resources
in
the
Mediterranean
Implementa0on
of
ini0a0ves
of
capacity
countries
building,
mobility
and
joint
projects
HAUT COMMISSARIAT AUX EAUX ET FORETS ET A LA LUTTE CONTRE
LA DESERTIFICATION MOROCCO Par0cipants:
8
EU
+
Turkey
+
Maroco,
MINISTERE DE L'AGRICULTURE ET DU DEVELOPPEMENT RURAL Algeria,
Tunisia
ALGERIA
INSTITUTION DE LA RECHERCHE ET DE L'ENSEIGNEMENT SUPERIEUR
Budget
2M€
/FP7-­‐CE
AGRICOLES, TUNISIA
MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND FORESTRY GENERAL
DIRECTORATE OF FORESTRY TURKEY
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13. MINECO. ERA-nets. ERAFRICA
Coordination of national research programmes of the EU with
Africa. The agreement for a common CALL was signed
this month in South Africa.
Coordinator: IRD-CNRS, France
Participants: 7 EU + Turkey + Egypt, South Africa and Kenya
Budget: 2M€ /FP7-CE
Next call in 2013. Egypt one of the main actors in the
Renewable Energy thematic call.
Spanish participation?
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14. MISTRALS. FRENCH Programme
Owned by IRD-CNRS
AN INTERDISPLINARY METAPROGRAM of OBSERVATION
and RESEARCH DEDICATED to THE MEDITERRANEAN
- General Assembly in Malta, with Med countries
- ENVI-Med: Call for networking projects, open to other
countries
Seven AXES
- HyMeX (Hydrological cycle in the Mediterranean eXperiment)
- MerMeX (Marine Mediterranean eXperiment) focused on the
biogeochemical changes that will take place in the Mediterranean Sea.
- ChArMEx(Chemistry-AerosolMediterranean eXperiment) to evaluate
current situation of the Mediterranean basin atmospheric environment
and to anticipate its future development and its impact on regional
climate, air quality and marine biogeochemistry.

15. OPIS. PUBLIC RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS
Bilateral agreement with the Hassan II
Academy, for Nano and Biotec projects
Capacity building programmes with
Moroco and Tunisia
AGORA project
ERA-ARD ERA-Net
CGIAR, ICARDA (Syria)
AGREEMENTS AND PROJECTS WITH
MAROCO, TUNISIA, ALGERIA
INTENSE ACTIVITY IN NORTHERN AFRICA

16. CDTI. CENTER FOR THE INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGICAL
DEVELOPMENT
- BILATERAL AGREEMENTS WITH MAROCO, EGYPT, TUNISIA.
- NPME
A - Agence Nationale pour la†Promotion de la†Petite et
Moyenne Entreprise
- DTI
C DELEGATE IN MAROCO to promote cooperation
between companies of the two countries in technological
develpment projects. cou Support with other countries

17. ABOUT US
- Recent and Future Governance Changes.
- Our instruments and capacities
- Universities, research centres, infrastructures
ON-GOING INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS EU FP7.
- INCO-Nets. MIRA. CAAST-NET
- ERA-Nets. FORESTERRA. ERAFRICA
- MISTRALS (FRANCE programme)
FUTURE INICIATIVES WITHIN THE EU:
- ERA-Med-Net
- MEDINNA
Subdirección General de
Relaciones Internacionales y 17
con Europa

18. The short term future
Background
Meetings of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership & Monitoring Committee for
the Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation in RTD: MoCo. Ministerial conferences.
- Barcelona Declaration and Euro-Mediterranean partnership in 2005
included cooperation in Science and Technology
- Compromise of High Education and Research of the First Euro-Med
Ministerial Conference, Cairo 2007
- Union for Mediterranean launched in 2008 considered research as one of
the 6 axis of cooperation
- Euro-Mediterranean Renewed Partnership in R&I based on Art. 185 was one
of the Conclusions of Euro-Mediterranean Conference on Research and
Innovation, held in Barcelona on 2-3 April 2012,
- 16th MoCo () meeting Brussels 21-22 June 2012
- he launch of an ERANET for the Mediterranean area by the EC (10 July 2012)
T
-17TH MoCo meeting, Malta 20th November 2012: advance for art. 185.

19. The short term future. INCO-ERA-nets
MED-Spring, INCO-Net. Starts 2013. EU funding
ERA-Med Net (Inco-Call in July 2012)
- First geographic Era-Net for the Mediterranean
- Proposal to the EU:18 December 2012
- Coordination: MIUR (Italy) / CIHEAM (International
Centre for Mediterranean Agronomy Studies)
- Kick-off in 2014
- Joint Call for projects 2015 ERANET MED
Joint Call for R&D Projects
Estimated Budget size 50 M€
Flexible
EU Coordination Costs 2M€

20. The long term future
Action Plan for MEDINNA
Mediterranean Innovation Area Joint initiative
Two models:
- ERA-Net Plus
- Art. 185

21. MEDINNA-MEDiterranean INNovation Area Joint Initiative
Art. 185 is based on integration of parts
of the National Research Programmes to
be implemented in a joint way under the
umbrella of the Commission.
ERANET MED PLUS
Joint Call for R&D Projects
National Research Programs integration
Estimated Budget size 50 M€ (MS & Med Partner Countries)
Estimated Budget size 300 M€
UE funding requirements EU contribution till 50%
EU contribution till 33% Dedicated Implementation Structure
Permanent governance structure
Decision of European Parliament
Mid-Long Term… 2015-2016

22. LANDSCAPE AND TIMELINE FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN COLABORATION
INSTRUMENTS WITHIN THE FRAME PROGRAMME
17th MOCO-Nov12 18th MOCO-Apr13
EU-MED Conf 1Tri 13
MIRA final Kick-off MED SPRING
ERANETMED-Application ERANETMED-Start ERANETMED ERANETMed-Projects
Joint Call
Mandate for MEDINNA,
Mobility, Infrastructure+SMEs
MEDINNA Starts
Art. 185 / E-Plus
EUSOLARIS Infrastructure Mobility for MED
THEMATIC ERA-NETS (FORESTERRA & SEAS-ERA) + JPI WATER AND OCEANS
BILATS ALGERIA, EGYPT, MOROCO, TUNISIA
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23. MEDINNA-MEDiterranean INNovation Area. Joint Initiative
Next Steps
• 17th MoCo (Monitoring Committee for the Euro-Med
cooperation) meeting November 2012 (last week)
• oncept Paper Euro-Mediterranean Ministerial Conference,
C
Spring 2013
French and Egyptian Co-Presidency Union for Mediterranean
• ERANET for the Mediterranean area. Deadline 18 Dec. 2012,
starting in 2014. Promoter: Italy

24. Thank you!