ERA-WIDE Projects
The objective of the ERA-Wide projects is to reinforce the cooperation capacities of research centres located in the ENP (European Neighbourhood Policy countries).
The actions of ERA-Wide projects are the following:
- Twinning with research centres in Member State countries or Associated Countries in view of exchanging knowledge and good practices, disseminating scientific information, identifying partners and setting up joint experiments through short term visits or staff exchange, meetings, seminars, and similar activities
- Developing training modules to build competency and facilitate the participation of these centres in FP7
- Developing strategies for research centres in order to increase their scope and visibility (regional coverage, activities), develop their comparative advantage and improve their competitiveness by enhancing their responses to the socio-economic needs of their countries and of the region.
SYNERGIES with MIRA
Possible synergies and co-operations between MIRA and ERA-Wide projects have been identified and resulted in concrete actions such as :
- Participation of the Water related ERA-Wide Projects in the Horizon2020 Working Group of MIRA.
- Participation of the ERA-Wide Projects in the Innovation Forum organized by MIRA
- Future participation in the Research Driven Clusters promoted by MIRA
More information on the ERA-Wide projects can be found here :
http://www.ETCproject.eu/download/Presentation_ERAWIDE.pdf
You can also find a list of the ERA-Wide projects in the Mediterranean region.
LIST of ERA-Wide projects
- Egypt:
Acronym: THEBERA
Main objectives and activities:
- Socio-economic analysis of the state of the art in liver disease.
- Competence building of TBRI in RTD management, IPR and ethics.
- Capacity building in liver diseases research
- Development of TBRI strategy to exploit research (business plan)
- Network facilitation and dissemination
Contact person: Sanaa Boutros (sanaabotros@link.net)
- Morocco:
Acronym: MAP2ERA
Main objectives and activities:
- To widen and reinforce direct links between leading research teams of NIMAP and best relevant European research organizations by conducting a series of networking and partnering events, and facilitating direct mobility of scientists aimed at initiating new joint projects (including Joint Research Programme) and ideas exchange.
- To build the cooperation capacity in NIMAP by providing a comprehensive training to members of the Moroccan research institute to develop/enhance their skills and competences with regard to building international research partnerships (including acquiring and participating in FP7 projects), as well as other important complementary research competences.
- To guarantee the sustainability and long-lasting positive effect of the project by developing a comprehensive Development Strategy of NIMAP aiming at significant strengthening of the role the Institute plays in meeting the national socio-economic challenges & regional/international research activities.
Contact person: Prof. Abdessalam El Khanchoufi (elkhanchoufi@yahoo.fr)
Centre presentation:
http://www.2m.ma/Infos/Le-Journal/2010/Novembre/Le-Journal-Mardi-16-Novembre/
Acronym: MoICT
Main objectives and activities:
Contact person:
Centre presentation:
- Tunis:
Acronym: CB-WR-MED
Main objectives and activities:
- Large scale investigation of water management needs and requirements
- Competencies building and exchange
- Pilot Plants infrastructures reinforcement
- Dissemination and networking
- Building-up of CERTE business plan
Contact person: Latifa Bousselmi (latifa.bousselmi@certe.rnrt.tn)
Acronym: BIOPROTECH
Main objectives and activities
- Improvement of the technological background and research skills
- Build up the knowledge base for commercialization of research results
- Build up knowledge about European research funding instruments
- Increase the visibility of CBS on a local and European level
- Improvement of the future biotechnology development at CBS, tying up with the European Research Area
Contact person: Prof. Hammadi Ayadi (director.general@cbs.rnrt.tn)
- Lebanon:
Acronym: INCAM
Main objectives and activities:
The proposal contributes to increase Lebanon’s capacity in important environmental concerns based on a regional approach that assess the anthropological impacts on natural resources. As a bottom up project, INCAM will first support collection of existing research data to assess the status of natural resources and identify knowledge gaps in environmental assessment capacities, especially in the intensively developed Lebanese coastal zones.
A detailed action plan will be developed to strengthen institutional capacities of the Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS) and convert it into a national and regional research centre of excellence. Further on, the project will enhance EU - Regional cooperation and networking by increasing the role of the EC in general and of the FP7 in particular.
Special attention is given to training and dissemination. Two regional workshops on environmental institutional capacity building will be organised in Jordan and Egypt.
The major outcome will be increasing the leading scientific role of CNRS and its centres and productive exchange of experts between the region and the EU. Short training courses will be organised for Lebanese researchers in the EU countries and young students will pursue MSc thesis in Italy.
Contact person: Mouin Hamze, Director CNRS: hamze@cnrs.edu.lb / Talal Darwish: tdarwich@cnrs.edu.lb / Rula Atweh:
rula.atweh@cnrs.edu.lb / Elise Njeim: enjeim@cnrs.edu.lb
- Jordan:
Main objectives and activities
- EMARCU’s cooperation capacities reinforcement
- Water-related research results dissemination
- Internationalization and coordination between research and business sectors
- Enhancement of EU-Jordan S&T Partnerships in Water Research
- Capacity building for solving specific water issues
- Setting Up Jordan’s Environmental NCP
Contact person: Fida'a Jibril, Head of Environment Monitoring and Research Central Unit (fida@emarcu.gov.jo)
Acronym: JEWEL
Main objectives and activities:
- A coherent development strategy for JUST (ICT sector) will be prepared, based on SWOT analysis and on the socio-economic analysis on Jordan, regional (Mediterranean) and European level.
- A twinning and joint research plan will be then agreed by the twinned partners and implemented.
Project includes several main types of activities, eg. twinning activities between JUST and AUTH, large-scale networking & brokerage activities, exchange of researchers and young specialists and organisation of joint events such as summer school and an international conference in Jordan; training and coaching activities, integration into the European networks and enhancing Jordan participation in FP7.
Contact person: Dr. Abdoul Rauf Rjoub (abdoul@just.edu.jo)
Acronym: JoRIEW
Main objectives and activities:
- Integration of PV/CPV systems in industrial grip connected applications
- Policy research and legislation development and awareness building for integration of PV technology application in energy management and resource planning
- CSP Dissemination and Education Program "Educate the Educators"
- Evaluation of Hybrid Concepts
- High penetration of wind energy in electric grid for MPCs.
Contact person: Prof. Mousa Mohsen (msmohsen@hu.edu.jo)
- Syria:
Acronym: SUWARESA
Main objectives and activities:
- Assessment of research/cooperation opportunities at national (Syrian), regional and European level, and the setting of the short-term and long-term priorities;
- Capacity building and human resources development for research and cooperation including training courses, post-graduate research programmes and stages;
- Networking and knowledge sharing joint research programmes with relevant EC institutions, exchange of researchers and preparation of joint publications;
- Development of short-term and long-term strategies of ANRR for research and cooperation development at the national and regional level; and
- Strong dissemination of the knowledge, including the design and preparation of project web-page, preparation of training material, guidelines, field days and workshops.
Please check their first newsletter.
Contact person: Dr. Awadis ARSLAN (abarslan@scs-net.org)
- Palestine:
Acronym: PERA
http://www.pera-project.eu/
Main objectives and activities:
- Better coordination between policy, research and Business in Palestine
- Enabling better participation in FP
- Setting up Palestine's Environmental NCP
- Enhancement of EU-PS S&T partnerships in Energy and water research
- Capacity building for solving specific energy and water issues
- Energy and water research results dissemination.
Contact person: Prof. Hilmi S. SALEM (hilmisalem@yahoo.com)
