The LEADERSHIP Project: Aims and Outcomes

Yolanda Ursa – INMARK

Project Coordinator

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Project Scope

• Support Action

• DG CONNECT - ICT International Relations Unit

• 2 years duration: starting date 1 Nov 2013

• 10 partners from 6 LA countries and 2 EU

- MINCYT, Argentina

- MCTI/IBIT, Brazil

- CONICYT, Chile

- CONACYT, Mexico

- CINTEL, Colombia

- CAF – Development Bank of Latin America

- TEC Monterrey, Mexico

- VTT, Finland

- UPM, Spain

- INMARK, Spain

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What we do

LEADERSHIP supports EU-LAC dialogues to enhance cooperation in ICT R&I under Horizon 2020

Bi-regional dialogues on S&T: Summits & Senior Official Meetings (SOM)

• Joint Initiative for Research and Innovation (JIRI)

• EU-LAC SOM ICT Working Group

Bilateral dialogues: S&T Agreements (Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico)

EU-Brazil Dialogue in Information Society

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Objectives

1. To create the LAC-ICT Expert Group as a forum to provide recommendations to the EU-LAC political dialogue in ICT.

2. To set up and run Working Groups on:

• Digital Agendas

• Funding Mechanisms

• ICT Regulations.

3. To identify ICT priorities for R&I cooperation

4. To provide input to the SOM ICT Working Group

5. To reinforce Latin America industrial cooperation in ICT, by enhancing interaction among research, industry and policy-makers.

6. To support the creation of networks of Living Labs through LAC and collaboration with the European Network of Living Labs.

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LAC-ICT Expert Group

• Kick-off Workshop on 1 April 2014 in San José, Costa Rica

– Synchronised with EU-CELAC Senior Officials Meeting (SOM)

• Forum to support ICT dialogues in the region, provide opinions and recommendations for EU-LAC cooperation in ICT R&I

• Collaboration with the EU-LAC SOM ICT Working Group

• Focus on three key thematic areas – Digital Agendas, Funding Mechanisms, and ICT Regulations.

www.lac-ictexpertgroup.eu

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LAC-ICT Expert Group

Profile of the experts

Mexico 9

Costa Rica 3

Cuba 1

Colombia 7

Venezuela 2

Brazil 4

Chile 4

Argentina 6

GovernmentHigher Education/ Research

Industry

31% 25%

44%

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Digital Agendas Working Group

• Coordination of Digital Agendas in LAC• Identification of priority areas

• Recommendations for enhanced cooperation

• Synergies with the Digital Agenda for Europe’s (DAE)

Chair: CONACYTCo-chair: INMARK

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• Digital Agendas WG meeting on 29 September 2014 in Guadalajara, Mexico

─ Synchronised with WCIT 2014

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Input Paper Digital Agendas WG

• Gives an overview of the Digital Agendas in Latin America (by country) and provides the insights gathered from the Digital Agendas Working Group

• Describes the key aspects of the Digital Agenda for Europe

• Showcases potential synergies between LAC and European Digital Agendas

• Presents mechanisms and measures to strengthen LAC Digital Agendas

• Finally, it provides overall conclusions and recommendations

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ICT Regulations Working Group

• Enhance the LAC regulatory framework for ICT R&I cooperation

• Sectorial regulations (e.g. quality of service, user protection, broadband mass usage)

• Industrial regulations (e.g. broadband technologies, trade conditions, IPR)

• S&T regulations (e.g. S&T investments and capacities, IPR)

Chair: CINTELCo-chair: UPM

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• Presents the prospective and convergent ICT frame of reference with the description of the most important ICT trends, indicators and indexes

• It provides an overview of the LAC ICT R&D Institutional Framework and presents some lessons learned

• Describes the key aspects of the LAC ICT R&D Regulatory Framework from three different perspectives: i) Sectorial Regulations, ii) S&T Regulations, and iii) Industrial Regulations

• Showcases a general review of the ICT R&I topics in EU and LAC

• Presents the prioritization of ICT regulatory areas of strategic interest for EU-LAC cooperation

• Finally, it provides overall conclusions and a set of recommendations

Input Paper ICT Regulations WG

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Funding Mechanisms WG

Explore Magazine by Claudia Adrien

• Review of available funding mechanisms

Latin America: huge fragmentation of R&D funding mechanisms

Chair: CAFCo-chair: IBICT

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Input Paper Funding Mechanisms WG

• Provides an overall analysis per country of main programs and funding mechanisms aimed at providing support of international cooperation in ICT research and innovation.

• Identifies all complementary funding mechanisms for cooperation between Europe and Latin America in ICT research and innovation.

• Identifies the programs, funding amounts and terms by country that are explicitly open to European researchers.

• Finally, it drafts recommendations to LAC institutions and funding agencies, institutions responsible of political EU-LAC dialogues on STI, and the European Commission

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No R&I area Average1 ICT-enabled open government 3,53 3,45 3,47 3,37 3,80  3,432 ICT platform for Learning and Inclusion 3,50 3,33 3,45 3,53 3,66 3,493 Technologies for better human learning

and teaching3,50 3,23 3,47 3,70 3,49 3,61

4 Advanced ICT systems and services for Integrated Care

3,48 3,37 3,43 3,33 3,57 3,54

5 Digital representation of health data to improve disease diagnosis and treatment

3,48 3,43 3,40 3,33 3,55 3,52

6 Smart Cities and Communities solutions integrating energy, transport, ICT sectors

3,46 3,24 3,34 3,37 3,68 3,55

7 Big data 3,46 3,38 3,47 3,53 3,53 3,498 New ICT-based solutions for energy

efficiency3,44 3,25 3,36 3,47 3,62  

9 Cybersecurity, Trustworthy ICT 3,42 3,16 3,38 3,27 3,58 3,5410 Advanced Cloud Infrastructures and

Services3,40 3,12 3,53 3,10 3,51 3,51

Top 10 ICT priorities by country

“Report on ICT Research and Innovation Priorities in Latin America. Results from LEADERSHIP Survey”, LEADERSHIP project (www.leadershipproject.eu), funded by the European Commission

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ICT R&I priorities in LAC

• Presents the methodological approach to conduct the survey and the respondents profile

• Gives an overview of the respondents’ R&I performance, based on employment and investment rates dedicated to R&I activities

• Describes respondents’ participation in international R&I cooperation programmes.

• Details R&I cooperation with Europe, including respondent’s experience when participating in EU projects. It also identifies the main barriers to participate in EU R&I projects and possible measures to enhance cooperation with Europe.

• Presents the ranking of ICT priorities in Latin America for future cooperation with Europe and its alignment with Horizon 2020 topics and R&I areas.

• Finally, it presents overall conclusions

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LAC-Living Labs

• LEADERSHIP performed a mapping of existing and emerging Living Labs in LAC

• 21 identified Living Labs• LAC-Living Labs Network at www.lac-livinglabs.eu

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Good practices on knowledge transfer in ICT• Study of successful cases for joint technology development and

knowledge transfer in ICT

• Interviews on key aspects related to management, networks, reasons and requirements for success; lessons learnt; and conditions for replications

→ Good Practices Guide for technology and knowledge transfer

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Case Country Case Country1. The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT-ICT)

Europe8. Cartagena crece innovando Colombia

2. Start-up Chile Chile 9. CETRI-Litoral Argentina3. Start-up Sauna Finland 10. Porto Digital Brazil4. Wayra Europe 11. Mexican Technology Platform in ICT Mexico5. Estonia ICT Demo Center Estonia 12. NESSI Europe6. Microsoft Innovation Centers

(MICs) Europe 13. Aalto University Design Factory Finland

7. Fundación Sadosky Argentina 14. Design Factory Chile hosted by Duoc UC

Chile

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Best practices on EU-LAC cooperation in ICT

• Identification of +30 target projects to perform the benchmark• Distribution of semi-structured questionnaire:

– Which mechanisms should be implemented in order to select topics for a successful EU-LAC cooperation?

– Which are the critical factors for a successful EU-LAC cooperation?– Which barriers did you find for a successful EU-LAC cooperation?– Which barriers appeared for successfully implementing joint initiatives?– Which policies do you suggest to implement in order to overcome the

barriers to reciprocity for access to LA programmes?

• In-depth interviews with targeted project’s participants• Gather insights at this International Cooperation Workshop EU-LAC→ Benchmarking on best practices for EU-LAC cooperation in ICT

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• To coordinate efforts • To create synergies with current

EU-LAC projects under ICT, e-Infrastructures, BILAT, INCO-NET and ERA-Net projects.

• To identify good practices to enhance EU-LAC cooperation in Horizon 2020, etc.

• To explore reciprocal access to Latin America programmes

Collaboration EU-LAC projects

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LEADERSHIP upcoming events• LAC-ICT Expert Group Mid-term

Workshop, June 2015, Brussels (tbc)– Synchronised with Summit EU-CELAC

• LAC-Living Labs Spring School, 2-4 September 2015, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia

– Synchronised with ANDICOM 2015

• LAC-ICT Expert Group Final Conference, October 2015 (tbc)

Co-Innovation Lab Workshop held on 14-15 October in Mexico City

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Gracias,

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Linkedin Group: Co-Innovation-LAC

Yolanda Ursa

Tel: +34-914480203

e-mail: yolanda.ursa@grupoinmark.com

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 611099