Joint call development and support to RTDI cooperation between the EU and Korea

The Korean scientific cooperation network with the European Research Area (ERA) was a network of European ministries, funding organisations, S&T policy promoting, and Korea, represented by the Korean partner organisation, the Korea Foundation for International Cooperation of Science and Technology (KICOS).

KORANET was an ERA-NET scheme funded in FP7 aimed at improving the coherence and co-ordination of national research programmes, and facilitating the mutual opening of national R&D (Research & Development) programmes between the Member States of the EU and South Korea. The core of the project was the development of a new co-ordinated S&T (Science & Technology) funding scheme where the national programme owners agree to launch a pilot joint EU-Korean programme within a given scientific field or discipline.

The core objectives of the KORANET were:

• To improve the information exchange between Korean and European research communities in order to better understand one anothers S&T landscapes and policies

• To exchange best practices as regards the planning and implementation of S&T policies

• To coordinate bilateral approaches of EU MS/AC and Korea

• To specify areas of cooperation in priority research fields

• To establish an appropriate instrumental framework for strategic cooperation

• To learn from ongoing (thematic) ERA-NETs(good practice)

• To develop a one-stop-agency for Korean S&T interests

• To develop and implement a full concept for a joint funding scheme in a thematic area (still to be defined)

• To increase Korean participation in the EU Research Framework Programme

As work package leader in this project the ZSI was responsible for the planning, design and implementation of a joint foresight-based framework to identify and elaborate the future core areas of S&T and competence network co-operation between the EU and South Korea. Based on the results of this foresight exercise a joint action plan and funding strategy, complementary to existing national and bilateral funding activities, has been developed. Furthermore, a EU-Korea Summer School was held in Vienna. Main results of the project are available in the publication: Korea and Europe. Meeting through Science.

우리는 비엔나, 한국 유럽 협력 오스트리아 활성화에 위치한 사회 과학 연구 기관입니다.

Team:

• Magª. Johanna Scheck (project leader)
• Magª. Elke Dall
• Michael Le Gohebel
• Mag. Dr. Klaus Schuch
• Magª (FH) Isabella E. Wagner, MA
• MMagª. Katharina Riedmann

Section: Research Policy & Development

Partners:

• Project Management Agency at the DLR (German Aerospace Center) (Coordinator)
• British Council
• Hungarian-Korean Technical Cooperation Center Foundation
• National Centre for Scientific Research
• National Research Foundation
• Polish Academy of Sciences
• Suomen Akatemia
• Technical Research Center of Finland
• TUBITAK Scientific and Technologcial Research Council of Turkey
• VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH
• Veneto Innovazione
• The KORANET consortium consists of 11 partners from 10 countries, the steering committee of 5 partner from 5 countries. The 5 observers come from 4 different countries.

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