PREPARATORY SEMINAR OF THE SECOND EU-LAC SUMMIT BUCHAREST, ROMANIA 26th – 27th May 2014

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REGISTRATION AND PRELIMINARY DISCUSSION TOPICS

ADDRESSED TO:

Universities, Research and Investigation Centers, from the private and public sectors of the European Union and CELAC member states

(Open to all the institutions, even without having previously attended the other reunions or the Academic Summit)

PRIMARY AIMS OF THIS REUNION: 

  • Further debating and analyzing the provisions emcompassed by the Santiago Declaration, agreed upon during the 1st Academic Summit ALC-UE ( 22nd  and 23rd of January 2013).  (http://www.cumbreacademica-alcue.cl/en/)
  • Exchanging opinions and ideas regarding the EU’s new research and education programmes entitled Horizon 2020 and Erasmus Plus
  •  Discussing and analyzing the progress of the Joint Initiative for Research, Science and Technology CELAC-EU, according to the CELAC-EU Action Plan 2013-2015
  • Developping ideas and proposals regarding the current and future cooperation within the Euro-Latin American space, in fields such as higher education, science and technology, that will be later discussed during the Second Academic Summit from 2015

PARTICIPATION

  1. The participation to this event is open to all universities, research centers and scientific networks from member countries of the European Union and CELAC (Community of Latin America and the Caribbean).
  2.  Each participant institution is expected to cover the expenses related to travel, accomodation and internal transfers
  3.  The Organizing Committee from Romania will ensure the logistic and administrative support, good coordination of the event’s activities and finance the expenses related to all the above
  4.   The Seminar enjoys the support of the Romanian Ministry of Education, the EU-LAC Foundation, the Americas Institute from France, CELARE and other European and Latin American institutions

 

How to register

The institutions that would like to attend this event are required to fill in the Registration Form and submit it to the following email address :

CONTACT  DETAILS FOR THE ALC-UE SEMINAR BUCHAREST 2014:

Email: contact@isla.eu.com (CC: ioana.dodi@isla.eu.com)

PRELIMINARY AGENDA

 The topics will be addressed during the first day of the Reunion in panels comprising specialists from both regions and different countries, while in the second day the same issues will be discussed in working groups with all participants

The presentations and discussions will be included in a printed publication, that will serve as input to subsequent seminars until the next 2nd Academic Summit

 

TOPICS

  1.  The proposals of the 1st Academic Summit and the Action Plan of the Permanent Academic EU-LAC Forum: pathways for follow-up and implementation
  2.  Preliminary analysis of the EU’s Erasmus Plus and H2020 programmes
  3. Analysis of the progress of the Joint Initiative according to the CELAC-EU Action Plan 2013-2015

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REGISTRATION AND PRELIMINARY DISCUSSION TOPICS