The EC is pleased to invite you to a virtual seminar that will take place on 14 October 2021 (1.30pm CEST / 7.30pm SG) online. The seminar aims is to strengthen global collaboration in research and innovation and tackle the socio-economic challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
International collaboration in health, socio-economic disciplines, humanities and the arts, has historically resulted in major breakthroughs that could not have been achieved without research partnerships. Today, global science is at a critical juncture.
The COVID-19 pandemic has mobilised science communities across Europe and beyond and sparked a great deal of data exchange and collaboration. Worldwide, researchers, scientists and experts from all fields of knowledge are working together to confront the coronavirus outbreak.
But the pandemic is more than a health crisis. It is shaking up societies and economies at the core. With this in mind, the EC is hosting a virtual seminar on 14 October 2021. This event will help strengthen global collaboration in research and innovation and tackle the socio-economic challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic. It is not possible to find solutions to the coronavirus pandemic by working only within one project or one country or even one continent. Participants, including R&I projects, organizations and individual researchers, engaged in COVID-19 related research, will therefore be invited to network and engage in a discussion around collaboration channels as well as barriers to collaboration .
They will also learn about the Coronavirus Global R&I Collaboration Portal and how it supports collaboration to address the socio-economic aspects of the Coronavirus pandemic.
Speakers will share valuable insights on the EU’s R&I response to the Coronavirus pandemic, calls and funded projects along with available tools and new initiatives.
AGENDA
Opening
13:30 - 13:35 (CEST)
Jean-Eric Paquet, Director-General, EC, DG R&I
Presentation of the Global Approach to Research and Innovation (R&I)
13:35 - 13:45
Maria Cristina Russo, Director Global Approach and International Cooperation in R&I, EC, DG R&I
EU’s R&I response to the Coronavirus pandemic
13:45-14:05
Irene Norstedt, Director People, EC, DG R&I
Presentation of the Coronavirus Global R&I Collaboration Portal
14:05-14:20
Heba Gaber, Science Counsellor Egypt, EC, DG R&I
Coronavirus Global R&I Collaboration: Importance of Synergies and Barriers to Collaboration (Plenary Panel)
14:20-15:05
Moderator (Chris Burns, Journalist & multilingual moderator)
Prof. David Levine, academic coordinator of the EUI COVID data portal, European University Institute (EUI)
Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness (GLoPID R): members of the social science working group. Marian Loveday, South Africa Medical Research Council (TBC)
Steven J. Hoffman, Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Tania Friederichs, Minister Counsellor at the Delegation of the European Union to India
Gabi Lombardo, European alliance for social sciences and humanities
Sonar-Global: Mobilizing Social Sciences against infectious threats, Tamara Giles-Vernick
Break
15:05 - 15:15
Closing
15:45 -15:50
Nienke Buisman, Head of Unit International Cooperation – Asia, Africa and the Middle East, EC, DG R&I
Join us! Network within a like-minded global R&I community and find out how you can strengthen your capacity for research and innovation.