EU en Brazilië starten tweede ronde van samenwerking bij onderzoeksprojecten (en)

On 11 Nov 2013, at Itamaraty, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil, a Workshop on EU-Brazil Cooperation in the area of ICT took place, organized in the scope of the VI Dialogue EU-Brazil on Science and Technology established by the S ant T Cooperation Agreement of 2004.

Representatives from the first Coordinated Call five projects and the two second Call projects, both from the European and Brasilian side, participated in a very interactive session covering:

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  The achievements and impact of first Call projects;
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  The formal launch of second Call 2 projects, with an overview of their objectives;
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  The results of the independent Assessment of on-going EU-Brazil cooperation in the area of ICT; and importantly
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  The announcement of the third Coordinated Call scheduled for 2015.

From the analysis of the results already available and stemming from the impact and exploitation plan of Call 1 projects, three success stories are worth of particular attention:

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  BEMO-COFRA - Brazil-Europe - Monitoring and Control Frameworks
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  EUBrazilOpenBio - EU-Brazil Open Data and Cloud Computing e-Infrastructure for Biodiversity
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  PODI TRODI - Point-of-care Diagnostics for Tropical Diseases