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INCO-Nets GLOBAL ISSUES Workshop
| What | Work INCONet |
|---|---|
| When |
2008-03-05 from 09:00 to 17:00 |
| Where | Bled, Slovenia |
| Contact Name | Miro Polzer |
| Contact Email | polzer@zsi.at |
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Global issues / challenges are a topic in most of the INCO-NETs proposed: n order to avoid that these aspects are dealt with by each individual INCO-NET in a fragmented and un-coordinated way (using different approach, different database, different codes, different "challenges", etc.), coordination efforts and provision of additional (information exchange) structures to coordinate this specific aspect among INCO-NETs are very important. We propose therefore a >>>INCO-Net Global Issues Workshop<<< which shall take place on Wednesday March 5 2008 09.00 – 17.00 CET in Bled/Slovenia as an accompanying event to Bled Forum on Europe Foresight conference www.bled-forum.org on „Foresight and Knowledge Based Governance Responses to Climate Change“.
In addition to a general exchange of information among INCO-NETs about planned activities with regard to global issues this workshop is intended to get a shared vision on development of a “database/information system on science policies and programmes on global issues”. Such an information infrastructure shall help to advance biregional and global coordination of STI policies with regard to global issues (UN Millennium Development Goals, Climate protection, Biodiversity, Energy and Water scarcity etc.) as well as it will enhance strengthening the coordination of S&T cooperation and the complementarities with activities carried out by means of other Community policy instruments (e.g. achieving “Policy coherence for development (PCD)” in line with “‘The European Consensus on Development” of 2005).
Furthermore this workshop aims also at coordination of the INCO-NET Global Issues Activities with DG Research’s activities (for instance by building on the outcomes of the Workshop „Responding to Global Challenges: the role of Europe and of International Science and Technology Cooperation“ http://ec.europa.eu/research/iscp/index.cfm?lg=en&pg=wkshp_4-5_10_2007 and at coordination with ERA-Watch (http://cordis.europa.eu/erawatch/ERAWATCH provides information on national research policies, structures, programmes and organisations) which shall allow to develop an ERA-Watch compatible information system.
Expected Outcome of the Workshop:
- Consensus on definitions/ delimination of terms: e.g. global versus regional, project versus programme,
- identification of current and future potential users of the Global Issues STI policies/programmes information system and discussion of their information needs
- getting a glimpse of status quo regarding existing information systems (especially ERA-Watch on the programme/policies level and EuroCRIS on project level) and
- outline of a common system of categorisation and documentation of research programmes, policies and research infrastructures (?) of International Cooperation Partner Countries of EU and EU member states on some selected global issues ( focus on complementarity and compatibility (perspective of integration of different systems in the long run should be kept in mind))
- discussion and at least partial consensus on the niche/the scope of the project (What are the borders of the INCO net Global Issues Information system(s), which can only be some kind of feasible pilot action in this field in light of limited funding and limited coverage of the involved INCOnets)
