Objective The proposed project is designed by a consortium composed of European, Brazilian and Cuban institutions to provide practical and methodological support to the objectives of the ALCUE Meeting 2002 and INCO programme with regards to two countries of the re gion - Brazil and Cuba. That is why the main objective of the proposed project is to strengthen and widen research collaborations between the European, Brazilian and Cuban research communities in the light of the new cooperative opportunities offered by FP6 and INCO, in particular, and, by this, to contribute towards achievement of the objectives of European Research Area. The project objective will be achieved by implementing a coherent set of activities which will include the following: 1. The Study w hich will map the research landscape in Brazil and Cuba specifically in the context of research priorities with the aim to identify the most promising themes for cooperation, will gather and generalize best practices and experiences of previous INCO proj ects to improve quality of future collaborations, will find synergies between different funding schemes available for cooperation; 2. Raising awareness and dissemination strategy targeted at research communities in Europe and in Brazil and Cuba. These ac tivities will include thematic seminars in Brazil and Cuba, promotion of cooperative opportunities at the selected European events and through various channels of dissemination; 3. Sustainable and competent support to and facilitation of future research p artnerships by training the local experts in the field of innovation and project management. Successful implementation of the project will lead to increasing number of joint research projects, engaging wider research communities both in Europe and in th e partner countries, strengthening existing and creating new links between scientists and researchers. Keywords International cooperation Programme(s) FP6-INCO - Specific measures in support of international cooperation: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) INCO-A - Developing Countries Call for proposal FP6-2002-INCO-COMULTILATRTD/SSA-5 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme SSA - Specific Support Action Coordinator EUROPEAN RESEARCH AND PROJECT OFFICE GMBH. EU contribution No data Address Science Park Saar, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 69 SAARBRUECKEN Germany See on map Total cost No data Participants (3) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSIDAD DE ALICANTE Spain EU contribution No data Address Campus San Vicente del Raspeig ALICANTE See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DE SANTA CATARINA Brazil EU contribution No data Address Av Madre Benvenuta 2007 FLORIANOPOLIS SC See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE PELOTAS Brazil EU contribution No data Address Andrade Nieves 1529 cep 96 020-080 PELOTAS See on map Total cost No data
