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Pacific Science Technology &
Innovation (STI) Roadmap
PACE-Net Plus is a project funded by the European Commission to reinforce EU-Pacific cooperation on Science, Technology & Innovation, and to
promote the development of mutually beneficial partnerships. Grant agreement n° 609490.
Background
• Pacific STI roadmap is an
outcome/product emerged from findings of
PACENET and PACENETPlus (PNP)
• 3 year projects funded by the European
Commission aimed at strengthening
Europe-Pacific bi-regional cooperation in
STI.
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PACE-Net Plus is a project funded by the European Commission to reinforce EU-Pacific cooperation on Science, Technology & Innovation, and to
promote the development of mutually beneficial partnerships. Grant agreement n° 609490.
Project Partners PN and PNP
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PACE-Net Plus is a project funded by the European Commission to reinforce EU-Pacific cooperation on Science, Technology & Innovation, and to
promote the development of mutually beneficial partnerships. Grant agreement n° 609490.
16 member consortium
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• University of Papua New Guinea UPNG PN Guinea
• National University of Samoa NUS Samoa
• Vanuatu Cultural Centre VKS Vanuatu
• Australian National University ANU Australia
• Landcare research LCR New Zealand
• Montroix Pty Ltd MPL Australia
• CNRT Nickel and its environment CNRT New Caledonia
• Institut Louis Malardé ILM French Polynesia
• University of the South Pacific USP Fiji
• Secretariat of the Pacific Community SPC NC
• United Nations Industrial Development Organization UNIDO Austria
• Tech. Centre Agri. and Rural Coop CTA The Netherlands
• Association of Commonwealth Universities ACU UK
• Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação SPI Portugal
• Zentrum für Marine Tropenökologie ZMT Germany
• Institut de Recherche pour le Développement IRD France
PACE-Net Plus is a project funded by the European Commission to reinforce EU-Pacific cooperation on Science, Technology & Innovation, and to
promote the development of mutually beneficial partnerships. Grant agreement n° 609490.
Societal Challenges
PACENET
(CHALLENGE 1) environment and climate;
(CHALLENGE 2) biology and medicine;
(CHALLENGE 3) Social and economic concerns;
(CHALLENGE 4) agriculture and food supply
(CHALLENGE 5) energy.
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Challenge 1
• Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Challenge 2
• Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research and the bio-economy
Challenge 3
• Climate action, resource use and efficiency, and raw materials
PACENETPLUS
PACE-Net Plus is a project funded by the European Commission to reinforce EU-Pacific cooperation on Science, Technology & Innovation, and to
promote the development of mutually beneficial partnerships. Grant agreement n° 609490.
• PaceNet and PaceNetPlus Activities
– Baseline studies
– Think tank/expert workshops
– Seed funding initiatives
– 6 dialogue platforms
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PACE-Net Plus is a project funded by the European Commission to reinforce EU-Pacific cooperation on Science, Technology & Innovation, and to
promote the development of mutually beneficial partnerships. Grant agreement n° 609490.
Baseline studies
– analysis of the current state of science and
technology (STI) research being carried out in the
Pacific region
– Country STI profiles
– desktop review of Pacific-related documentation
on development goals, agendas and programmes
to study the current and needed linkages
between development and S&T research
– Pacific region Innovation survey
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PACE-Net Plus is a project funded by the European Commission to reinforce EU-Pacific cooperation on Science, Technology & Innovation, and to
promote the development of mutually beneficial partnerships. Grant agreement n° 609490.
Think tank workshops
• Infectious diseases including Zika
• coastal ecosystem disturbances, fish and shellfish
poisoning, and their socio-economic implications.
• Enhancing community resilience: managing
environment, water and wastes under a changing
climate
• Terrestrial and seabed mining
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PACE-Net Plus is a project funded by the European Commission to reinforce EU-Pacific cooperation on Science, Technology & Innovation, and to
promote the development of mutually beneficial partnerships. Grant agreement n° 609490.
Seed funding• 21 projects funded from these broad
Areas
• Health, Demographic Change and
Wellbeing
• Food security, Sustainable Agriculture and
Forestry, Marine and Maritime and Inland
Water Research and the Bio-economy
• Climate Action, Resource Efficiency and
Raw Materials
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PACE-Net Plus is a project funded by the European Commission to reinforce EU-Pacific cooperation on Science, Technology & Innovation, and to
promote the development of mutually beneficial partnerships. Grant agreement n° 609490.
6 Dialogue platforms
• Brisbane (2011),Brussels (2012),Suva
(2013), Auckland (2014),Brussels (2015),
Nadi (2016)
• present the outcomes of specific project
activities, and the lessons learned, as a
means of contributing to the structural and
policy discussions of the dialogues
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PACE-Net Plus is a project funded by the European Commission to reinforce EU-Pacific cooperation on Science, Technology & Innovation, and to
promote the development of mutually beneficial partnerships. Grant agreement n° 609490.
• From PaceNet activities and discussions
– Emerge need to build /improve
capacity in Pacific in STI including policies
and national frameworks.
– idea of a specific ‘Pacific Science, Technology
and Innovation’ policy framework emerged.
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PACE-Net Plus is a project funded by the European Commission to reinforce EU-Pacific cooperation on Science, Technology & Innovation, and to
promote the development of mutually beneficial partnerships. Grant agreement n° 609490.
CURRENT SITUATION
• Lack of integrated national and regional STI framework to tie in pockets of STI initiatives
• many nations lack the necessary ST&I capacities
• lack of adequately trained scientists and STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) teachers,
• lack of scientific job prospects for graduates, too few people with skills in critical thinking based on scientific principles.
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PACE-Net Plus is a project funded by the European Commission to reinforce EU-Pacific cooperation on Science, Technology & Innovation, and to
promote the development of mutually beneficial partnerships. Grant agreement n° 609490.
Pacific STI Roadmap
• PACE-Net Plus established a working
group to identify pathways to raise the
profile of Pacific research in order to
enable such a bi-regional dialogue in STI
And a set of recommendations to promote
STI in Pacific.
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PACE-Net Plus is a project funded by the European Commission to reinforce EU-Pacific cooperation on Science, Technology & Innovation, and to
promote the development of mutually beneficial partnerships. Grant agreement n° 609490.
Why STI
• many challenges in the Pacific can benefit or solved using ST&I
initiatives
• For example -health, food security, environment, observation
systems,
• There are also many opportunities to enhance sustainable
responses to climate change given the unique position the Pacific
has at the forefront of environmental change. Eg Paris agreement
• STI initiatives
– relevant to the community and
– national,as well as regionally coordinated,
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PACE-Net Plus is a project funded by the European Commission to reinforce EU-Pacific cooperation on Science, Technology & Innovation, and to
promote the development of mutually beneficial partnerships. Grant agreement n° 609490.
PNP encourages
– inclusion of ST&I in national development
strategies
– coordination of regional research towards
common research strategies and related policies
and programmes in the Pacific region by
promoting the implementation of joint actions,
based on a proposed agenda.
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PACE-Net Plus is a project funded by the European Commission to reinforce EU-Pacific cooperation on Science, Technology & Innovation, and to
promote the development of mutually beneficial partnerships. Grant agreement n° 609490.
RATIONALE
Roadmap is a set of recommendations
concrete actions to boost the efficiency and impact of national and regional research activities in order to:
assist regional leaders to achieve the objectives of their national development strategies, through national and regional research findings;
ensure Pacific research activities are connected to local and global networks in order to enhance their local impact as well as contribute to global solutions; and
foster bi-regional dialogues on the basis of excellent and equitable outcomes.
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PACE-Net Plus is a project funded by the European Commission to reinforce EU-Pacific cooperation on Science, Technology & Innovation, and to
promote the development of mutually beneficial partnerships. Grant agreement n° 609490.
TARGET AUDIENCE
• The roadmap addresses regional leaders
(including parliaments and elders) to develop a
regional vision for STI in the Pacific to enable
them to define their joint future.
• Potentially powerful tool for regional leaders to
inform decision-making — that will impact on
future generations — on rational and regionally
derived findings of scientific research.
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PACE-Net Plus is a project funded by the European Commission to reinforce EU-Pacific cooperation on Science, Technology & Innovation, and to
promote the development of mutually beneficial partnerships. Grant agreement n° 609490.
RECOMMENDATIONS
1. Develop strategies in relation to ST&I (national & regional)
2. C a p a c i t y b u i l d i n g & education
3. Infrastructure
4. Research funding (national & regional)
5. Equity & Inclusion
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PACE-Net Plus is a project funded by the European Commission to reinforce EU-Pacific cooperation on Science, Technology & Innovation, and to
promote the development of mutually beneficial partnerships. Grant agreement n° 609490.
Develop strategies in relation to ST&I
(national & regional)
These strategies should leverage the SDGs and build on existing agreements and collaborations.
National & regional ST&I priorities and ST&I frameworks
Regional ST&I policy dialogue
Senior officials’ meetings
Linkages between chief scientific advisors
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PACE-Net Plus is a project funded by the European Commission to reinforce EU-Pacific cooperation on Science, Technology & Innovation, and to
promote the development of mutually beneficial partnerships. Grant agreement n° 609490.
Develop strategies in relation to ST&I
(national & regional)
• ST&I as a tool for strengthening regionalism and advancing regional objectives
• Alignment with regional ST&I priorities, including with CROP agencies, based on the Framework for Pacific Regionalism and other relevant frameworks and initiatives
• Participate in national, regional and global ST&I initiatives
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PACE-Net Plus is a project funded by the European Commission to reinforce EU-Pacific cooperation on Science, Technology & Innovation, and to
promote the development of mutually beneficial partnerships. Grant agreement n° 609490.
Develop strategies in relation to ST&I
(national & regional) •
• Capacity building
• Leaders for the future, in particular senior scientific advisors and science advocacyo Resources for scientific research to assist in developing capacity in situ to assist with research and application of findings.
• Science diplomacy (including innovation)
• Creation of a regional research council (a regional funding body for excellent ST&I, and a central body to attract donor support towards regional ST&I funding, to action regional ST&I priorities)
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PACE-Net Plus is a project funded by the European Commission to reinforce EU-Pacific cooperation on Science, Technology & Innovation, and to
promote the development of mutually beneficial partnerships. Grant agreement n° 609490.
C a p a c i t y b u i l d i n g & education
• Internal capacity supporting autonomous analysis and decision-making in evidence based policies
• Maximise ST&I investment through the identification of areas of excellence and critical mass
• Research management training and administrative research support
• Support for sustainable regional thematic and institutional networks, for example via:o Mobility schemes to further develop networks and international linkageso Twinning, active MoUs, and COST-inspired networking
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PACE-Net Plus is a project funded by the European Commission to reinforce EU-Pacific cooperation on Science, Technology & Innovation, and to
promote the development of mutually beneficial partnerships. Grant agreement n° 609490.
C a p a c i t y b u i l d i n g &
education • Support young scientists towards excellent research,
providing:o Mentoringo Mobilityo Fellowships / scholarships
• Support science curricula & science literacy for:o Early introduction to science and scientific literacyo Enhancing teacher trainingo Citizen scienceo Resources for teaching
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PACE-Net Plus is a project funded by the European Commission to reinforce EU-Pacific cooperation on Science, Technology & Innovation, and to
promote the development of mutually beneficial partnerships. Grant agreement n° 609490.
INNOVATION
• • Establish sectoral strategic platforms for innovation, that are industry & community driven, and identify sectoral needs• Facilitate public sector and academic research linkages with private sector, for example via collaborative projects (e.g. PPP’s, scholarships)• Economic and legal incentives for industrial research, including support for the IP landscape
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PACE-Net Plus is a project funded by the European Commission to reinforce EU-Pacific cooperation on Science, Technology & Innovation, and to
promote the development of mutually beneficial partnerships. Grant agreement n° 609490.
INFRASTRUCTURE
• Facilitate open access to local/regional ST&I publications, data and collections
• Better utilisation of regional research infrastructure
• Facilitate regional access to existing national assets
• Utilisation of ICT to optimise access
• Improvement and coordination of infrastructures and human resources (e.g. coordinating networks of Pacific observatory systems).
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PACE-Net Plus is a project funded by the European Commission to reinforce EU-Pacific cooperation on Science, Technology & Innovation, and to
promote the development of mutually beneficial partnerships. Grant agreement n° 609490.
RESEARCH FUNDING NATIONAL &
REGIONAL
• national financing efforts,
• part of a regional ST&I investment framework:
• Seed funding schemes, using think-tanks to develop priorities and identify areas with critical mass, and operated in collaboration with sectoral platforms
• Regional competitive funding
• Access to long-term funding, including sustainability for the operation/function of infrastructure assets
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PACE-Net Plus is a project funded by the European Commission to reinforce EU-Pacific cooperation on Science, Technology & Innovation, and to
promote the development of mutually beneficial partnerships. Grant agreement n° 609490.
EQUITY & INCLUSION
• Pacific ST&I policies ensure that all sectors of society participate in and benefit from science, technology and innovation.
• includes, not limited to:• Ensuring gender equality in research, researchers, science education, governance and beneficiaries• Ensuring that ST&I is inclusive of people with disabilities
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PACE-Net Plus is a project funded by the European Commission to reinforce EU-Pacific cooperation on Science, Technology & Innovation, and to
promote the development of mutually beneficial partnerships. Grant agreement n° 609490.
EQUITY & INCLUSION
Ensuring ST&I research and implementation based on principles of free, prior and informed consent (FPIC)
• Recognising much innovation and development in the Pacific is grounded in traditional knowledge, which develops through empirical testing in complex context for generations - indigenous science.
ensure ST&I development iappropriate and serves Pacific communities, traditional knowledge should be considered on equal footing with scientists
traditional knowledge holders should be included as equal stakeholders in ST&I policy-making and implementation
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PACE-Net Plus is a project funded by the European Commission to reinforce EU-Pacific cooperation on Science, Technology & Innovation, and to
promote the development of mutually beneficial partnerships. Grant agreement n° 609490.
EQUITY & INCLUSION
• . This includes capacity building for all partners in the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-Sharing and FPIC.• ST&I development in the Pacific should be based on human rights and Pacific principles of social responsibility and contributing to the common good.
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PACE-Net Plus is a project funded by the European Commission to reinforce EU-Pacific cooperation on Science, Technology & Innovation, and to
promote the development of mutually beneficial partnerships. Grant agreement n° 609490.
KEY ACTIONS
• Lead to discussions amongst the regional leadership.
• They will determine the value of the individual aspects and ways towards their implementation.
• Pathway to the future hinges on the commitment to develop a regional vision for the Pacific embracing ST&I.
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PACE-Net Plus is a project funded by the European Commission to reinforce EU-Pacific cooperation on Science, Technology & Innovation, and to
promote the development of mutually beneficial partnerships. Grant agreement n° 609490.
KEY ACTIONS
• Vision to be supported by respective policies in schooling, higher education and research, facilitating innovative approaches in the societies.
• implementation will build on joint infrastructures which can be developed together with donor countries and organisations.
• These pilot installations (e.g. global change observatories) will be pilot projects for discourses in communities regarding development paths they would prefer towards the future.
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PACE-Net Plus is a project funded by the European Commission to reinforce EU-Pacific cooperation on Science, Technology & Innovation, and to
promote the development of mutually beneficial partnerships. Grant agreement n° 609490.
• MANUIA MA SOIFUA!!!!
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