Research collaboration with Europe: opportunities, prospects and challenges

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• other seminars in 2007:
• The Nobel Prize as a Benchmark for Research Quality
• Building the infrastructure to manage uncertainty: experiences from inside the EU
• Lifelong Learning: Its Role in the European Commission’s Education, Research and Innovation Agenda
• ICT Research in Europe’s Framework Programme: Policies, Principles, and Co-operation Potential

International collaboration is an important aspect of the research environment and can form an important component of academic career development. The launch of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) is an opportunity for FEAST, the European Commission and the major stakeholders involved in European-Australian research cooperation to highlight and promote their respective programmes and activities.

The FEAST Secretariat and the Delegation of the European Commission to Australia and New Zealand are holding a series of joint seminars throughout Australia in order to increase understanding of European-Australian cooperation. A seminar will be held in each state/territory capital plus a limited number of other locations according to demand. Each seminar will:

• provide an overview of the structure of the European research systems;
• describe the current state of collaborative activity;
• identify the major opportunities for collaboration;
• discuss Australian support for collaborative research; and
• highlight some successful outcomes and the resulting general lessons.

Schemes such as FP7, COST (European Co-operation in Scientific and Technical Research), and opportunities to collaborate with researchers and industry in individual EU Member States will also be covered, including examples of researcher exchange and mobility. Each seminar will conclude with a Q&A session.

The seminars are free and open to all academic and general staff, targeting early career and senior researchers from public and private organisations, research development staff and policy managers.

Details about each event at: www.feast.org/seminars/2007