Australia - Europe: Challenges and Opportunities for Collaboration

Australia - Europe:

Challenges and Opportunitiesfor Collaboration

Shelagh WhittlestonManager, Education Australian Embassy, Brussels

29 November 2013

Policy FrameworksAustralia-EU Framework Agreement (Treaty level) is currently being negotiated. Research, innovation and education are featuresEducation and Training Policy Dialogue

AQF-EQF alignmentJoint Science and Technology Co-operation Committee, JSTCC. 2014 - 20th Anniversary

FP7, CAESIE and targeting a new roadmap

New Opportunities 2014

New Parliament, new strategies and more money• Horizon 2020• Erasmus Plus

Website: www.ec.europa.eu

Education Collaboration

ICI-ECP : Encounter Program

• Joint Degrees• Students, Researchers, Staff Mobility

10th Call - Guidelines out very soon

CAESIE

CAESIE has three broad core priority areas: • Clean energy• Healthy ageing through enabling technologies• Sustainable cities

• Website: www.caesie.org

CAESIE• SMEs from Europe seeking to partner with

Researchers from Australia• SMEs from Australia looking to partner with

Researchers in Europe• Researchers in Europe seeking to partner with

SMEs in Australia• Researchers in Australia seeking to partner

with SMEs in Europe

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The Australia Awards• Announced in 2009• Brings together a number of Australian

Government scholarships programs– AusAID– Department of Innovation– Australian Centre for International

Agricultural Research

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• Support Australia’s international education and science engagement

• Annual budget of around AUD 40m (£26m)• Two-way

AA Endeavour Scholarships & Fellowships

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• Range of scholarship opportunities available– Executive Fellowships (1-4 months)– Research Fellowships (4-6 months)– VET Scholarships (1-2 years)– Postgraduate Scholarships (1-4 years)

Opportunities Available

Australia Awards - Endeavour

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China

IndonesiaIndia

JapanUSA

Hong Kong

Vietnam

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United Kingdom

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Cambodia

New Zealand

Canada

Malaysia

Philippines

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Republic

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Papua New

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France

Germany

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Top 20 destinations for Australian AA Endeavour recipients (2007-2013)

Contact

Email: Shelagh.whittleston@dfat.gov.auPhone +32 2 2860586Australian Embassy and Mission to the EUAvenue des Arts, 56Brussels 1000, Belgium

Websites: www.education.gov.auwww.aei.gov.au