Giving focus to the Cultural, Scientific and Social Dimension of EU - CELAC relations
News
Towards a Common Vision of EU-CELAC Relations - Vienna meeting, 7 June 2018
The main objectives of the work on establishing a common vision is to give a coherent orientation to research in the thematic research, establish priorities and overall coherence to the set of recommendations from the project as a whole and define a clear strategic narrative for the renovation of the EU- CELAC relation that transcends the thematic & institutional limitations of the current negotiations and dialogue.
The first task of the team was to analyze the legal, political and institutional setting of EU-CELAC relations & create the adequate background for the prioritization of thematic outcomes and their respective policy recommendations.
This has so far made it possible to build a vision common to the whole project for all to follow. Preliminary conclusions are that:
- there are different regional experiences
- CELAC as particular political process promoted by states, lacks the legal status and the organizational structure to be, in many areas, an effective “actor” of bi-regional relations.
- there is a declining interest in the relation between EU and LAC
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there are two EU frameworks for the CELAC region: Latin America/Caribbean, which makes it difficult to have a consistent approach towards CELAC
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bi-regional dialogue only takes place at governmental level with lLow participation of civil society
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the EU & CELAC Joint agenda is on two different levels: bi-regional and global but in order to achieve concrete results within the Summits framework, the Action Plan Chapters need more interrelation and redefinition for coherence throughout the 3 dimensions
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the evolution of cooperation depends on material and institutional structures,
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the link between EEAS & DG DEVCO. development cooperation within the framework of EEAS should give wider spectrum for cooperation with LAC
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the agenda for Change leads to different kinds of development partnerships and new aid allocation criteria
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the European development policy faces changes
The second task focuses on the development of 4 scenarios (common vision) of renewed social, scientific and cultural relations, going from scenario methodology to scenario definition to scenario validation.
The team produced methodological guidelines for implementing a scenario building process leading the consortium and stakeholders into identifying 4 scenarios to be considered more in details with regards to the 3 dimensions. These scenarios will then be further assessed and refined with the help of contacts withing well established EU-CELAC bodies and events (e.g. SOM, summits, scientific and technology conferences, etc ) concluding into a validation workshop and action plan.
The third task aims at identifying and elaborating “hot topics” of promising fields of action for the renewal of the cultural, scientific and social dimension of EU CELAC relations.
These are areas where the CELAC-EU space could be developed further, bringing together experts on a particular topic to discuss how to propose and insert a specific line of work in bi-regional cooperation and propose concrete activities.
- The First Hot Topic Web Conference on Research Infrastructure was organized on June 13th 2017. The participants shared their views on regional integration of research infrastructures. Two questions were addressed: How to find a common language to start a dialogue?/ How to develop a harmonized and aligned regional approach to research infrastructure policies?
- The Second Hot Topic Web Conference on "Towards an Open Science and Open Access scientific EULAC relations" was organized on April 18th 2018 to discuss the potentialities and limitations of Open Access and Open Science in scientific production as a strategy to achieve the development of equitable, cooperative knowledge and quality.
Further hot topic web conferences will be organised and advertised on our news page and social media accounts.
The fourth task will focus on formulating of an Action Plan for bi-regional joint actions taking into account the scenarios.
The Action Plan will be presented and discussed in the Project final event and will need to integrate coherently the three dimensions (cultural, scientific and social) , and, in particular:
- Design actions that are transversal to the three dimensions
- and that overcome the division in different DGs of the European Commission, being thus able to integrate policies that affect EULAC Focus three dimensions
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EULAC-FOCUS Final Conference more
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Events
Workshop extending to viticulture the approach of the 6-8 June workshop on milk production in Manizales
Date: 09/10/2019
Joint CAMINOS/OBREAL/EULAC Mesa de discusión on synergies between EU-funded projects
Date: 10/06/2019
VINCULANDO ESTRATEGIAS DE INNOVACIÓN Y COOPERACIÓN BIREGIONAL: CUARTA CONFERENCIA WEB DEL PROYECTO EULAC FOCUS SOBRE ESPECIALIZACIÓN INTELIGENTE
Date: 05/09/2019
Presentation of EULAC Focus approach and the OBREAL/EULAC Focus initiative on Clustering
Date: 22/01/2019
Workshop on EU – LAC Higher Education relations Advancing in the EULAC Foundation’s Matrix)
Date: 27/06/2019
Synergies between research and higher education in the framework of EU-funded projects
Date: 18/07/2019
Round Table on Open Science: “Hacia una estrategia regional para el acceso a las revistas científicas”
Date: 29/08/2019
Synergies between research and higher education in the framework of EU-funded projects
Date: 07/10/2019
Reunión sobre las relaciones entre CELAC y la UE focalizando los dimensiones cultural, científica y social en la UBA el 10 de diciembre
Date: 10/12/2018
“El trato a los trabajadores migrantes: Eje transversal de las relaciones UE – CELAC”
Date: 04/12/2018
EULAC FOCUS PROJECT - WEBINAR “Diplomacy of Innovation and Science Diplomacy: A Vision for EULAC”
Date: 03/12/2019
Sessions on synergies between EU-funded projects in the framework of the CAMINO A FIESA series of events
Date: 09/09/2019
Panel: La dimensión científica de las relaciones entre Europa y América Latina: complejidades y desafíos, 25th May, Lasa Congress
Date: 25/05/2018
THE ROAD TO A COMMON LANGUAGE, EU LAC FOCUS PROJECT’S FIRST WEB CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES
Date: 13/06/2017
¿Cuál es el papel de la cultura en las relaciones entre la Unión Europea, América Latina y el Caribe?
Date: 12/07/2017
Chamber of Labour Austria: „Institutional power shifts in the EU and its consequences for social policy and gender relations“
Date: 11/05/2017
"Europa – América Latina y el Caribe: ¿Asociación estratégica o distanciamiento paulatino?"
Date: 28/11/2016
¿Rebasar la brecha científica? La circulación de conocimiento como alternativa a la dependencia
Date: 20/02/2017
“HOT TOPIC” WEB CONFERENCE: TOWARDS AN OPEN SCIENCE AND OPEN ACCESS SCIENTIFIC EULAC RELATIONS 18th of April 2018- 10-12 Quito Time
Date: 18/04/2018
How to Give Focus to EU - CELAC cultural, scientific and social relations: Who, What, Where and How?
Date: 26/05/2018
WP3, Cultural Dimension Event: Buenos Aires, Argentina - Introduction of WP3 and team members Delphi analysis (Diagnosis and Strategies)
Date: 07/11/2017
CATALYST - Harmonising Actions in the Caribbean Creative Ecology - A Creative Ideas Lab
Date: 13/06/2018
Public event at C3 Institute - “Gender and Transnational Knowledge Networks: Status and Participation in the international scientific exchange”
Date: 08/11/2017
Public event at IFTH - “Diversity and Inequality: Challenges for EU-CELAC Relations”:
Date: 29/03/2017
Public event at the IAI - “Mobility and the geopolitics of knowledge: Challenges of scientific exchange between EU and CELAC”:
Date: 29/08/2016
EULAC FOCUS has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 693781.
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