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Study on strategies of internationalisation of S&T in Southeast Asia published

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On 19^th and 20^th of November, more than 130 political decision makers and researchers from Southeast Asia and the EU met in Paris with the aim to exchange information on actual and future bi-regional cooperation in the field of science and technology (S&T).

At the occasion of this conference, a consultation paper for international S&T-cooperation policies of Southeast Asian countries was presented. The study is based on a fact-finding-mission in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

The main findings are:

• Southeast Asia is a region with manifold forms of economic and scientific development as well as diverse priority setting in the field of S&T. This fact should be taken into account in the elaboration of new S&T programmes.
• Southeast Asian researchers as well as politicians are very much interested in research cooperation with scientists from the EU. Especially Japan, Canada, China and India are competitors for the EU-countries in this context.
• Researchers are interested in long-term cooperation. The administrative effort in joint projects should be kept low.
• The researchers most often come back to personal contacts when a new network is constituted. The promotion of mobility of researchers is seen as an expedient investment in the future.

The conference took place in the premises of the Centre national de la recherché scientifique (CNRS) in Paris and was the first of a series of conferences, organised by the Research Framework Programme 7 funded project SEA-EU-NET, which will take place annually. The aim of the project is to activate and promote the science and technology dialogue between the two regions. Regular stakeholder meetings should help decision makers to coordinate science and technology policy in the EU and ASEAN countries and to develop political measures, which strengthen the bi-regional cooperation in concertedly identified focus areas. Besides, these stakeholder meetings facilitate the constitution of supra-regional networks and the reduction of barriers, which for example handicap the participation of Southeast Asian researchers at FP7.

If you are interested in this study or have further inquires, please contact:

Margot Schüller & David Shim: Shim@giga-hamburg.de
Florian Gruber gruber@zsi.at
Rudie Trienes: rudie.trienes@bureau.knaw.nl

URL: www.sea-eu.net  

ATTACHMENTS

• Consultation Paper (.pdf, 1.01M)

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