Objective The proposal aims to increase the cooperation between national governments and agencies from Member States (MS) to strengthen the impact of their national programmes on international cooperation in science and technology (S&T) with third countries. INCONET will pave the way to enable national managers and decision makers to increase the, up to now, very weak level of co-operation among the international cooperation activities in S&T of the European Union MS. So far, there is not yet a mechanism for transnational coordination between international cooperation activities at national level and the INCO programme (Sixth Framework Programme, FP6). Therefore, the participation of INCO target countries in the first call for proposals in 2003 has been very limited. The partners are already collaborating in a multilateral regional programme of cooperation in S&T (CYTED, Science and Technology for Development) in co-operation with 19 national programmes of Latin-American countries. The Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology (MCYT) is managing the National Programme of International Cooperation in S&T, funding international cooperation activities in S&T.INCONET will first study the characteristics of the international cooperation programmes in S&T of MS, trying to identify additional countries interested in coordinating their national activities. A workshop of national managers together with other stakeholders will be organised, exploring the possibilities for joint transnational research activities in selected groups of target countries (Latin-America,..) as well as to improve the synergies between the INCO programme and the national programmes. An ERA-NET Coordination Action will be prepared to improve the coherence and coordination of international cooperation activities, thus contributing to the international dimension of the European Research Area. Programme(s) FP6-COORDINATION - Support for the coordination of activities: specific programme strengthening the foundations of the European Research Area under the Sixth Framework Programme 2002-2006 (FP6) Topic(s) COOR-1.1 - Networking of national or regional programmes or parts of programmes; actors: public authorities, research agencies, open call for proposals (ERA-NETs) Call for proposal ERA-NET/1/CA-SSA See other projects for this call Funding Scheme SSA - Specific Support Action Coordinator MINISTERIO DE EDUCACIÓN Y CIENCIA EU contribution No data Address Alcalá, 34 MADRID Spain See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (1) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all GABINETE DE RELAÇOES INTERNACIONAIS DA CIENCIA E DO ENSINO SUPERIOR (OFFICE FOR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IN SCIENCE AND HIGHER EDUCATION) Portugal EU contribution No data Address Av. 5 de Outubro, 85, 5º LISBON See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data
