This service was part of the International Service Facility and manages the administration, communication and promotion of the EU-ASEAN JFS

The overall objective of this service was to set up a Central Secretariat for the implementation of the Southeast Asia - Europe Joint Funding Scheme for Research and Innovation (abbreviated as SEA-EU JFS). It was directly subordinated to the EC’s service request “International Service Facility in Support of the Strategic Development of International Cooperation in Research and Innovation", in which ZSI was the work area manager for communication and involved in enrolling several services.

The SEA-EU JFS service provided the management of the 1^st and 2^nd JFS call. The 1^st call was developed by the FP7 funded SEA-EU-NET 2 project (ZSI as consortium partner) and was launched in the beginning of April 2017. The 2^nd call, which was launched in 2018 respectively and was fully managed and administrated under this service.

The key actions for this request were:

1. Set-up a JFS Secretariat in Europe to take over responsibilities from the SEA-EU-NET project (DONE)
2. Set-up a twinning mechanism with a JFS Secretariat organisation in ASEAN
3. Transfer the JFS secretariat functions to the ASEAN JFS Secretariat (estimated in 2018)
4. Launch a second call in the first half of 2018
5. Disseminate the results and promote the JFS as an attractive tool of research funding for additional funding organisations in Europe and Southeast Asia: ZSI is lead partner
6. Conduct an external evaluation of the JFS

The objective of the SEA-EU JFS itself was to bring together Southeast Asian and European researchers and innovators to collaborate on topics of mutual interest. For the first call, this included the following research fields: Health (Anti-microbial drug resistance, Emerging infectious diseases) and Environment/ Climate Change (Adaptation/Resilience of food production systems, Impacts of Climate Change on Ecosystems/Biodiversity).

The participating countries (14 countries participated in the 1^st call - find all information here) represented by its funding organisations for research & innovation (R&I) were providing funding in principle only to their national research and innovation partners. The target groups for the SEA-EU JFS were on the one hand R&I funding agencies from EU-MS, ASEAN countries and from countries associated to Horizon 2020 as potential new contributors to the funding scheme for its 2^nd call. On the other hand, it were the researchers, academia, industry and R&I organisations as potential applicants to the JFS.

This service was delivered by a joint tender core group, comprising  DLR (Germany), INTRASOFT (Luxembourg), TEAMWORK (France) and ZSI (Austria) in close cooperation with the subcontractors in ASEAN.

ZSI as the communication and dissemination leader in the SEA-EU-NET II project seamlessly continued this scope of work also in the SEA-EU JFS. ZSI's team developed a dedicated communication and dissemination strategy, worked on the promotion of the call and the call results, conceptualised and prepared relevant public relations material (leaflet, poster, info sheet), supports the communication ahead/during/after major events related to the JFS and ran the official JFS online channels, i.e. the website and the Facebook and Twitter account.

Team:

• Mag. Philipp Brugner, BA, cPM (project leader)
• Magª (FH) Isabella E. Wagner, MA
• Michael Wilkinson, MA

Section: Research Policy & Development

Partners:

• Intrasoft International SA
• TEAMWORK
• Project Management Agency at the DLR (German Aerospace Center) (Coordinator)

Related Articles:

• Project: Service Facility in Support of the Strategic Development of International Cooperation in Research and Innovation
• News: SEA-EU Joint Funding Scheme holds successful first meeting in Bangkok
• News: SEA-EU Joint Funding Scheme announces 2nd Call
• Event: SEA-Europe Joint Funding Scheme 2nd Dissemination Event
• Project: ISF Support for the enhancement of the SEA-EU Joint Funding Scheme - phase 2

Tags: call, Southeast Asia