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Building Bi-regional Partnerships for Global Challenges

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Towards a Tangible LegacyWorkshop of WP2: Africa-Europe STI cooperation on the Climate Change global challenge

Africa-EU STI Policy Dialogue Support(Plenary session, Tuesday, 8th September 2015, 9:00 – 10:30)

7th – 8th September 2015 | Bergen, Norway

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Authors: Stefan A. Haffner

Organisation Names: DLR-PT

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1Building Bi-regional Partnerships for Global Challenges

Joint Africa-Europe Strategy (JAES) includes

• commitment to addressing jointly common global challenges.

• an EU-Africa partnership on scientific and technical research and innovation

• acknowledging the important role of STI in addressing global challenges.

HLPD

Africa-EU High-Level Policy Dialogue in STI

oversees the partnership


www.africa-eu-partnership.org

HLPD Summits

Addis Ababa (2015)Brussels (2014) Tripoli (2010)Lisbon (2007)Cairo (2000)

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EU Troika 3 MS


AMCOST 3 MS

EC

HLPD-

Bureau

Joint Africa-Europe Strategy (JAES)

College-to-College(annual meetings, last in

2015 - Brussels)

Joint Task Force (annual meetings)

Council of EuropeSecretariate

AUC

AMCOST = African Ministerial Commission on Science and Technology (Specialised Technical Committee)

AUC = African Union Commission

EC = European Union Commission

HLPD = High Level Policy Dialogue (81 Member States - formerly: SOM - Senior Officials Meeting

ECAUC

ECAUC

HLPD

ECAUC

Algeria | Burkina Faso | Burundi | South Africa

France | Germany | Portugal | UK

The First Action Plan (2008-2010)

The Second Action Plan (2011-2013)

The Third Action Plan‘Joint Africa-EU Strategy: Roadmap 2014-2017’

Africa-EU Partnership

Africa-EU Summits with ministerial meeting(every three years, last in 2014 - Brussels, next in Addis Ababa, March 2016)

Expert level meetings(last expert working group was on Food andNutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture -FNSSA for a roadmap)

Other continuous dialogues:• EU-Africa Business Forums• Africa-EU Civil Society Forum• Africa-Europe Youth leaders’ Summits• Meetings between the European Parliament and Pan-African Parliament• Meetings of EU and Africa economic and social stakeholders network


Roadmap 2014-2017, BrusselsFocus on 5 priority areas of cooperation:

1. Peace and security; 2. Democracy, good governance and human rights; 3. Human development; 4. Sustainable and inclusive development and growth and continental integration;5. Global and emerging issues.

Key area for cooperation: Climate change and environment

First Action Plan (2008-2010), Lisbon and the Second Action Plan (2011-2013), Tripoli

had focused on 8 priority areas of cooperation:

1. Peace and security;2. Democratic governance and human rights;3. Regional economic integration, trade and infrastructure;4. Millennium Development Goals;5. Climate change;6. Energy;7. Migration, mobility and employment;8. Science, information society and space.

Joint Africa-Europe Strategy (JAES) Action Plans

HLPD Bureau Proposed meeting dates in 2015

Month Date Time ( at location)

Meeting Type Location

March 5 10:30 Face to face Back-to-back with the third meeting of the EU-Africa High Level Expert Group on 5-6 March

London

April 7 15:00 VC

April 27 Face to face Back-to-back with the final meeting of the EU-Africa High Level Expert Group on 27 April

Brussels

June 23 15:00 VC

September 15 15:00 VC

October 19 morning Face to face/VDC Back-to-back with roundtable on EU-Africa cooperation on STI supporting FNSSA at the MILAN EXPO on 18 October

Milan

November tbc tbc Face to face (tbc) Back-to-back with Conference in the European Parliament on EU-Developing countries cooperation on STI in framework on European Year for Development 2015

Brussels

December tbc VC


Roadmap on Food and Nutrition Security

and Sustainable Agriculture (FNSSA)

• HLPD’s focus for STI partnership is currently on FNSSA, reflecting common priorities.

• HLPD Bureau appointed 10 experts from Africa & EU to develop priorities for EU-Africa FNSSA partnership.

• Experts delivered roadmap to HLPD Bureau in April 2015.

• HLPD Bureau currently elaborating roadmap for delivery to March 2016 HLPD meeting in Addis Ababa.


FNSSA roadmap – priority selection criteria

1. Relevance to African and European priorities for sustainable agriculture and food and nutritional security,

2. Expected impact of research and likelihood of uptake,

3. Capacity for joint research,

4. Scalability,

5. Complementarity and value for money.

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Roadmap on FNSSA

– priority topics


1. Sustainable intensification.

2. Agriculture and food systems for nutrition.

3. Development and improvement of agricultural markets and trade.

4. Cross-cutting issues.

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Sustainable intensification:

suggested research components


• Ecological intensification approaches which optimise the use of ecosystem services to produce food at lowest costs and environmental impact.

• Identification and breeding of animals and crops to maintain/increase productivity and resilience under constraining conditions.

• Animal, fish and crop health for optimising resource efficiency, minimisingproduction losses and avoiding spread of diseases.

• Appropriate use of soil, water, land and inputs management practices to deliver greatest benefits at lowest costs and environmental impact.

• Advanced marine spatial planning, marine ecosystems, aquaculture technologies and environmentally and economically sustainable systems.

• Organizational innovations, facilitating uptake of innovations across farms and rural communities, through new business models and farmer information systems.

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Agriculture & food systems for nutrition :



• Improved food value chains

• Improve the nutritional value of crops and animal products, through advances in breeding and biotechnological innovation

• Understanding consumer behaviour with respect to healthy diets and nutrition and the role of education and incentive systems

• Public private partnerships to improve the nutritional quality of foods

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Development and improvement

of Agricultural markets and trade :



• Effective models and methodologies for the development of surveillance, monitoring and diagnostic systems for sanitary, phytosanitary and other food safety purposes.

• Science for innovations for bio-economy strategies.

• Stabilizing food and input price fluctuations and improving resilience of food systems.

• Global Value chains and market power: linking rural communities to markets, access to credit, impact of urbanization on trade links…

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Cross-cutting issues :



• A framework for improved coordination and added value between the diversity of European- and African-supported research projects on agriculture and food security.

• Supporting innovation processes.

• Strengthening capacities for collaboration among African and European R&I communities.

• Understanding the social and cultural contexts of production systems impacting FNSSA.

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Implementation?


• The Africa-EU STI partnership has no dedicated funding instrument.

• Much work nominally placed under the partnership to date has been supported directly or indirectly by EU instruments, by international programmes, by EU MS programmes, and to a lesser extent by African MS programmes notably via a joint funding arrangement.

• Key to implementation of the roadmap research priorities is identifying agencies / schemes / programmes / funds whose interests align with roadmap priorities.

• Partnership needs to draw on a diversity of collaborative arrangements & funding mechanisms to engage also non-traditional partners and build multidisciplinary platforms.

• HLPD Bureau and its collaborators are elaborating a roadmap chapter on implementation but above all the partnership needs visionary and dedicated leadership.


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New joint fundedcall for research projects

Two funding areas:1. Food and Nutrition Security 2. Resilience


• Pilote programme for researchcooperation with national fundingparties from Africa and Europe,

• for inspiring memberstates of Africa andEurope to contribute as partners to theimplementation of the Joint Africa-EU Strategy (JAES)


• 20 funding parties from Africa and Europe (1st joint call in 2013) Austria, Belgium, Burkina Faso, Côte D‘Ivoire, Egypt, Germany, Finland, France, Kenya, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Turkey

• ~ 11 Mio. € total fund (incl. 2 Mill. € contribution of the EC)

• 106 viable proposals for research projects• 17 projects have been funded• Three funding areas

1. Renewable Energies2. Interfacing Challenges3. New Ideas


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Mr Stefan A. [email protected]+49 228 3821 1899

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