Promotion and facilitation of international cooperation with Eastern European and Central Asian Countries (EECAlink)

Požadovaný rozpočet: 600.000 EUR

The EECAlink was a coordination action aimed at identification of joint research priorities of the EU and EECA countries and strengthening scientific collaboration among them. International Cooperation Partner Countries targeted by the project are: Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. EECAlink represented a measure of active encouragement of the international Health research related cooperation and allowed strengthening of the existing bi-lateral scientific collaboration of all participating university/academia partners. Project consorcium was balanced to be able to act as a pipeline for communication of the research priorities of EECA countries to relevant EU policy makers and vice versa, help to coordinate future joint calls relevant to the Health Theme. Last, but not least, to build capacities for proposal submission in FP7. For the project communication and impact evaluation purposes, we have defined three major target stakeholder groups: 1. Policy makers - this target group is further divided into European and national. The first stakeholder group represents a key element for creation of European added value through identification of joint research opportunities for future calls in the area of Health research. 2. Universities and academia partners - the project is coordinated by the Charles University in Prague and represents a consortium of ten academic partners, who wish to both strengthen and extend their international collaboration in topics identified in FP7-TP Health programme. 3. Wider RTD public - research and innovation managers and individual scientific group leaders from participating countries interested in submitting own FP7 proposals.

Žadatel: Univerzita Karlova