This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research,

technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 611014.

Supporting European Union and Southeast Asia ICT strategic

partnership and policy dialogue: Connecting ICT EU-SEA Research,

Development and Innovation Knowledge Networks

Final Conference - Hanoi, Vietnam

Wednesday, May 11th, 2016

Svetlana Klessova

inno TSD (France)

Project coordinator

CONNECT2SEA: experience, results, success stories –

towards close EU-ASEAN ICT collaboration

Outline of the presentation

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About CONNECT2SEA

Main project activities in order to enhance collaboration -

results and feedback from ASEAN and EU specialists

Funding of bottom up initiatives to enhance ICT

collaboration

Reinforcing ICT R&D and innovation cooperation:

connections between networks and organisations

Cybersecurity: linking R&D and policy aspects

Support to policy dialogue

Key messages

Success stories and sustainability

What next after CONNECT2SEA?

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CONNECT2SEA Project: Reinforcing EU-SEA ICT R&D collaboration

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Project funded by the EC/DG CONNECT (FP7)

Start: December 1, 2013 - Duration: 30 months

(until May 31, 2016)

Aim: Enhance EU-South East Asia ICT research, development

and innovation collaboration and supports ICT policy dialogue

Target groups: ICT stakeholders, ICT R&D organisations,

policy makers, clusters and networks

Target countries: European Union and South East Asia

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Consortium

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The CONNECT2SEA Project targets the all European Union and all SEA Countries

Coordinator

inno TSD, France

National Electronics and

Computer Technology Center

(NECTEC), Thailand

TU Dortmund, Germany

National Centre for Scientific

Research (CNRS), France

Advanced Science and

Technology Institute (ASTI),

Philippines

Foundation for Research and

Technology Hellas (FORTH),

Institute of Computer Science, Greece

Agency for the Assessment and Application

of Technology (BPPT), Indonesia

Athens Technology Center (ATC), Greece

Information Technology

Institute, Vietnam National

University(ITI-VNU), Vietnam

University Sains Malaysia (USM), Malaysia

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Endorsed by ASEAN COST Committee on Science and Technology

In Collaboration with Ideal-ist, an international ICT network with more than 70 ICT

national partners from EU and Non-EU Countries.

TELSOM Meeting noted the CONNECT2SEA

project and was appreciative of the

opportunity to take advantage of the

recommendations that will result from the

project

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Process of work

Policy round table 1, with SCMIT

Policy round table 2, with TELSOM

Policy round table 3, with EU and ASEAN

Secretariat

Support to bottom up initiatives

Networks connection

E-communities of practice

Events

H2020 Sessions

Delegation visits - meetings

Report / analytical materials

Recom

mendati

ons

ASEAN Secretariat (COST)

ASEAN Secretariat (TELSOM)

EC

other relevant parties

Main activities in order to enhance collaboration (1)

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Call opened from March to May 2014

Funding for events and travels

55 applications received from 136

organisations

21 SEA-EU initiatives selected for

funding, 18 were implemented

14 events and 4 research travels

funded

500+ ICT specialists involved

20 publications in process

3 MoU launched

Several research groups formed,

dual masters and PhDs…

Funding of

bottom up

initiatives to

enhance ICT

collaboration

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Some lessons learnt

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Small funding (up to 10 000 €, average 6 500 €) was a catalyst helping to attract

much bigger funding to support scientific collaboration

Offer and demand does not match

EU funding (Horizon 2020): “large scale” projects (1-2 mln €)

– great opportunity for a few teams

National funding: great opportunity, for bilateral collaboration

Lack of initiatives with smaller funding (100-300K €), allowing

“connections” of research teams ASEAN-ASEAN and EU-ASEAN

=> core of demand

Difficulties to involve industry

Weak academia-industry collaboration in many ASEAN countries

Many synergies between EU and ASEAN priorities: cybersecurity, big data …

Need to collaborate and exchange experience between ASEAN countries is even

bigger that need to collaborate between EU-ASEAN

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Feedback from EU and ASEAN specialists

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“This small grant has acted as a catalyst to launch our EU-SEA collaboration…

and further collaboration between industry and universities”

“Without the small grant stimulus, we don’t think that a set of our research

and technological linkages in the EU and SEA would have occurred.”

“We would have not started this cooperation without this start-up grant.”

“Small grant schemes should be maintained or expanded as they greatly help

the collaboration process.”

“Give more opportunities for SEA researchers to develop joint projects!

National ASEAN countries funds for projects could be linked to calls

supporting common interests”

“It is necessary for us to work together to develop strong networking and to

come up with research projects or activities with high impact…”

“Horizon 2020 is complicated to make a first step to collaboration, we need

lighter scheme to start with”

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Need for actions

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Stronger networking within ASEAN!

Stronger networking between EU and ASEAN

More linkages between academia and industry/end users

Focus on local needs in ASEAN: ICT for social and

economic development, cybersecurity…

Experience sharing between ASEAN countries

Information sharing between ASEAN countries

„Light“ and small scale grants schemes, to start with

CONNECT2SEA proposal:

Small scale research and innovation projects scheme

(EU-ASEAN, also relevant to ASEAN-ASEAN

collaboration)

Funding of

bottom up

initiatives to

enhance ICT

collaboration

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Main activities in order to enhance collaboration (2)

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Workshop on Real-time Interactive Web-based Distance Learning Environment (Manila, Philippines – November 29th, 2014 )

Workshop on “Proposal development & consortium formation” NESSI

in the context of NESSI Member’s and International and Cooperation (INCO)

Day 2014 (Barcelone, Spain - November 20th/21st , 2014 )

EU-ASEAN CIO Forum (Jakarta, Indonesia, March 2016)

EU-SEA Big Data Summit 2016 (Cyberjaya, Malaysia – May 2016)

ASEAN RISE 2016 (Hanoi, Vietnam – May 2016)

e-Communities of Practice (big data

& cyber security), 184 members

Linkages between networks

Sustainable cooperation

500+ participants at the events

Examples:

Reinforcing

ICT R&D

and innovation

cooperation:

connections

between networks

and organisations

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Main activities in order to enhance collaboration (3)

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Focus group meeting - International Cooperation on Cyber Security: Towards the

New Avenues (Hanoi, Vietnam - December 2015)

EU-SEA Cybersecurity Forum (Manila, Philippines – January 2016) with 80+ participants

Examples:

Focus on

cybersecurity:

policy and R&D

Report on cybersecurity in EU and

ASEAN (policy and R&D aspects)

Introduction to inter-regional

cooperation in cyber security

Cybersecurity policy maturity in

ASEAN countries

E-Community of Practice

Networking activities/events

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Feedback

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“We need ASEAN-wide networks, to exchange

experience between ASEAN countries” (ASEAN side)

“There are very few specific ICT networks in ASEAN

where we can expand collaboration activities” (EU

network)

“It’s difficult to go from country to country. We need

ASEAN-wide entry point to act as regional catalyst and

link to other ASEAN countries” (EU network)

“We want to collaborate with ASEAN clusters – can you

help us to identify them?” (EU clusters)

“Experience from ASEAN countries is sometimes more

relevant that experience from the EU” (ASEAN and EU

side)

“A center for ICT cooperation (ASEAN-ASEAN, and EU-

ASEAN) is needed”

Connections

between

networks

*****

Cybersecurity

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Needs for actions

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Networks development in ASEAN, experience and

information sharing

ASEAN-wide ‘node’ (entry point) on the national level to

act as regional catalyst and link to other ASEAN countries

Involvement of industry, academia and policy makers in

the networks

Networks on the specific topics (eg. Big data, IoT…) and

focus on vertical markets (eHealth, services …)

Better interactions between policy and R&D side

Similar priorities- e.g. big data; IoT; cybersecurity…

Unify and take common actions in the region – both

policy and research & innovation

Build basis for a “virtual” centre for ICT cooperation

(ASEAN-ASEAN, and EU-ASEAN)

Connections

between

networks

*****

Cybersecurity

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Main activities in order to enhance collaboration (3)

Involvement of 10 ASEAN

countries; meetings with policy

makers (delegation visits)

3 policy round tables

Policy recommendations

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Contribution

to ICT policy

dialogue

Examples:

Policy Dialogue Roundtable Meeting with the SCMIT on 24 May 2015, Thailand

CONNECT2SEA Delegation Visits to Cambodia, Laos PDR, Myanmar

Policy Dialogue Roundtable Meeting with TELSOM on 1 March 2016, Indonesia

Policy Dialogue Roundtable Meeting between High Level Representatives of the

EU and the ASEAN Secretariats (TELSOM, COST) - on March 7, 2016

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Some conclusions from policy round tables meetings

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A lack of regional (ASEAN) collaboration

A lack of collaboration between ICT policy and ICT R&D

A lack of community of practices and centres / networks of

excellence

Weak academia-industry collaboration in many ASEAN countries

Need to reinforce the links between SEA specialists

Need to have a mechanism to share information, including findings

from other projects

Need to have more sources of funding for supporting the interaction

within SEA countries…

Think towards ICT centre for cooperation (virtual?), sharing good

practices, training and knowledge transfer

Feedback from all sides converge!

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Need for coordination and synergies between ICT policies and ICT RDI

Need for networks (in ASEAN and EU-ASEAN)

Need for exchanges, experience sharing, information sharing

Need to build on the strengths of each ASEAN country in the

collaboration process

Need for more synergies between academia and end users

Need to expand to new ICT topics

Need for joint funding

Need for light schemes for joint projects

Need to contribute to social and economic development in ASEAN

Need to lay basis for (virtual?) center for ICT cooperation

=> REPORT CONNECT2SEA with policy recommendations

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Success stories and sustainability (1)

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• Target: at least one follow up initiative after each project activity

• Leverage of other sources of funding by partners to organise the

project activities

Call for proposals to support bottom up initiatives

Visible impact; continuation of many/most initiatives

Input for EC future funding (cascading grants)

Big data collaboration

Big Data Value Association (major EU network) set up e-community of

practice and wish to continue activities

EU-SEA Big Data Summit in Malasia: 400+ registrations, 200+ accepted

participants, EU and ASEAN sponsors attracted

Cybersecurity collaboration

Report with very useful findings

EU-ASEAN Cybersecurity Forum, 120+ participants

External stakeholders: initiative in preparation

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Thank you!

Success stories and sustainability (2)

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APAN collaboration

Initiation of collaboration with FIWARE initiative; smart cities session

in preparation at the next APAN event (FIWARE PPP from EU)

ASEAN RISE initiative: ICT for economic and social development

Approx. 130 participants

Continuation of the initiative by ASEAN stakeholders planned

ERASMUS+ grants successful

After e-learning workshop in the Philippines in Nov 2014

After workshop on advanced computing for control and performance

optimisation in Thailand in March 2015

Policy interactions

Major mobilisation of policy makers, including at the top level (EU

Ambassador in ASEAN, ASEAN Secretariats

Sustainability remains to be seen; the potential is high to take (some)

recommendations on board, due to the involvement of policy makers

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Thank you!

What next after CONNECT2SEA?

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Continuation of collaboration supported under the call for

proposals for bottom up initiatives

Continuation of big data collaboration (led by Big Data

Value Association)

Next steps in cybersecurity collaboration: ASEAN-ASEAN

and EU-ASEAN (initiative in discussion)

Uptake of ASEAN RISE initiative by stakeholders

Advancement of APAN and FIWARE exchanges and

collaboration

Policy recommendations => to ASEAN Secretariats and EU;

E-READI

Project major materials to be available via ASEAN S&T site

Specific (limited) support by the CONNECT2SEA partners

WISH: CONNECT2SEA ‘brand’ with integration of new

organisations supporting EU-SEA ICT collaboration

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CONNECT2SEA contacts

IN EUROPE

Main contact (Project Coordinator)

Svetlana Klessova

Director, inno TSD

s.klessova@inno-group.com

Press contact

Dorota Pawlucka

dorota.pawlucka@tu-dortmund.de

IN SOUTH EAST ASIA

Main contact

Dr. Pensri Guntasopatr

Advisor, NECTEC

pensri.guntasopatr@nectec.or.th

Press contact

Maria Irene S. Amatorio

ryne@asti.dost.gov.ph

Via website: www.connect2sea.eu

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