The triple-helix conference on bio-based economy “Supporting the development of bio-based economy partnerships in the Danube Region through a triple-helix approach” is one of the major events of the Danube-INCO.NET project. Its main objective is to support the university-business-government cooperation (triple-helix model) to enhance the establishment and development of bio-based economy partnerships in the target countries, tackling societal challenges in the field of food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, water research, bio-based economy and bio-energy.
The upcoming conference will address ‘Health’ as a focus area of EU-Eastern Partnership Cooperation in Science, Technology and Innovation. IncoNet EaP’s 3rd Policy Stakeholders’ Conference will take place in Budapest, at Danubius Hotel Gellért, on 19-20 April 2016.
The InoNet CA project is conducting a survey about the framework conditions and cooperation opportunities of STI in general and more particularly between the EU and the Central Asia countries. With the related questionnaire addressing the six countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan), we would like to measure the development of potentials of bi-regional Science, Technology and Innovation cooperation over time. Following the first round in 2015 the survey is repeated to get comparative data for analysis.
Under the support of the IncoNet Eastern Partnership and IncoNet Central Asia projects, energy and water experts from Eastern Partnership countries and Cental Asia participated at the Aquamatch Amsterdam brokerage event and H2020 training organised by RCISD on 4-5 November in Amsterdam.
This was the 2nd Policy Stakeholders Conference (PSC) organised by the IncoNet CA project and the 4th in a series of events targeting Central Asia,which was started by its predecessor project IncoNet CA/SC. This year’s focus was on ‘energy’, a topic high on the political agenda of both the European Union and Central Asia. The PSC took place on 30 Sep – 1 Oct 2015 in Astana, a workshop on ‘EU-Kazakhstan Innovation Cooperation’ on 2 Oct was also open to the PSC participants.
This was the 2nd Policy Stakeholders Conference (PSC) organised by the IncoNet EaP project and the 6th in a series of events targeting the Eastern Partnership region,which was started by its predecessor project IncoNet EECA. Focusing on ‘energy efficiency’, this year’s PSC was adjusted to the ‘ENERGY EXPO 2015’, which currently takes place in Minsk until 16 October 2015.