Florencia Paoloni

Science and Technology Secretary

IILA - Italo Latin American International Organization

May 20th 2019

International Intergovernmental Organization located in Rome.

Founded in 1966

Members: Italy and 20 States of Latin America: Argentina, Plurinational State of Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haití, Honduras, México, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Perú, DominicanRepublic, Uruguay and Venezuela.

Who we are

UN observer.

Collaborations with CEPAL, IDB, CAF and others

Political dialogue facilitator (1st meeting between the Rio Group and Europe at IILA, 1990; meetings with presidents and high level authorities, etc);

Seven Pillar Assessment

Develop and coordinate research and documentationregarding issues, activities and perspectives of our MemberStates in cultural, scientific, economic, tecnical en social areas;

Make the aforementioned research results available to our Member States;

Find exchange / mutual assistance and common action opportunities.

What we do

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What we doamong other things…

The 8° took place on December 2017

9th on December 2019

1st Ministerial Forum “Italo – Latin American Alliance for the

promotion of gender equity”

April 11-12 2019, Rome

Mission:

To promote researchers exchange between our Member States and of information and ideas among our scientists;

To support the organization of conferences, meetings, symposia and any other activity related to science and technology;

To foster and manage regional or sub regional projects, studies and research of scientific matters;

To promote scientific cooperation agreements and foster agreements between Italian and Latin American Universities and Research Centers.

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Promote researchers exchange …

Scholarships for Latin American citizens toresearch or to make post graduate studyvisits in Italy.

Areas 2019: Agrifood, environment,biotechnology, protection of culturalheritage.

From 3 to 6 months

€ 1.200 p/month + insurance

2020 call: from May

Promote the exchange of ideas and information…

Network and virtual meeting space between IILAand Latin American and Italian researchers withinterests related to LAM.

Informal meetings on diverse scientific issues inorder to spread scientific knowledge and theresults of Italian – Latin Americancooperations.2018 and 2019 meetings are co-organized withthe Argentinean Embassy in Italy.

Promote the exchange of ideas and

information … (cont.)

Webinars: from this year we will be able to organize and support courses online for up to 250 participants anywhere in the world.

“The Risk Chart and its enforcement in the Andean region”

“Science communication and promotion”

“Space cooperation”

Support the organization of conferences, meetings …

Support the organization of conferences, meetings …

IILA-UNITAR Course on Science Diplomacy for our Member States diplomaticbody. Rome, November 2018.

Space Diplomacy on 2019 (?)

Meeting on Space cooperation and opportunities with the Brazilian Embassy,May 30 , Rome

Foster and manage projects…

«Italian – Central American cooperation for the regional integration in thedefense against natural hazards» 2018-201916 institutions (Italy, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras andNicaragua)

“Support to the Colombian governement to strengthen the Integral ActionAgainst Antipersonal Mines” --- spin-off in Ecuador

«Improvement of the transfusion safety and quality in Bolivia, Guatemala andEl Salvador»

Project «Giving focus to the Cultural, Scientific and Social Dimension of EU -CELAC relations” 2016 - 2019

Aim: Study EU-CELAC relations in the cultural, social and scientific areas in order to individuate synergies and «cross-fertilization»

Consortia of 9 European institution (Italy, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Czec Repblic, and France) and 10 from CELAC (Argentina, Ecuador, Guatemala, Perú, Trinidad and Tobago, México y Brazil)

Some examples…

Promote scientific cooperation agreements …

Meetings and visits with the Council of Delegates to laboratories andS&T centers.-November 2017: mission to Trieste in order to visit ICTP, ICGEB yELETTRA & Fermi Syncrotrons.-October 2018: visit to the Gran Sasso National Laboratories

Other visits with the Scientific attaches to ENEA’s Center in Casaccia,University of Pisa and this year to ESRIN

Promote scientific cooperation agreements …

Agreements signed withFAOENEACREAICGEBUNITARASI (date to be confirmed)ICTP (in negotiation)

Science and Technology Secretariat

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• AT THE TIME WHEN THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IS CRAFTING A

NEW INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENDA, WE TRUST THAT THE

UNITED NATIONS AND ALL GOVERNMENTS WILL FULLY IMPLEMENT THE

THIRD RESOLUTION ON CULTURE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

ADOPTED BY THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN DECEMBER 2013

(A/RES/68/223) WHICH ACKNOWLEDGED THE ROLE OF CULTURE

AS AN ENABLER AND DRIVER OF SUSTAINABLE

DEVELOPMENT AND WHICH REQUESTED THAT CULTURE BE GIVEN DUE

CONSIDERATION IN THE POST-2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA.

WHAT WE WANT

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• OUR MISSION IS TO SUPPORT CULTURAL INITIATIVES AND

PROJECTS, AND THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE TO

BUILD AND STRENGTHEN FREEDOM AND SOLIDARITY IN

SOCIETY.

• IILA PROMOTES AND SPREADS LATIN AMERICAN

CULTURE CREATING THE CONDITIONS FOR CULTURAL

EXCHANGE BETWEEN EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA.

• VISUAL ARTS, PERFORMING ARTS, MUSIC, CINEMA, ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN, LITERATURE, HISTORY, PHOTOGRAPHY, WORLD HERITAGE ARE THE MAIN FIELDSOF OUR WORK.

• INTER-INSTITUTIONAL AGREEMENT WITH MINISTRY OF

CULTURE OF ITALY

• AGREEMENTS WITH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES AND

ART ACADEMIES

• PROFESSIONAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMS

• ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAMS WITH ITALIAN AND LATIN

AMERICAN ART FOUNDATIONS

• ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL PRIZES: PHOTOGRAPHY, LITERATURE

• AGREEMENTS WITH PUBLISHERS

• PARTICIPATION IN BOOK FAIRS AND FILM FESTIVALS

• LECTURES, WORKSHOPS AND EXHIBITIONS IN MUSEUMS

AND PUBLIC VENUES

• PUBLISHING PROJECTS AND OPEN CALLS FOR PAPERS

WHAT WE DO

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OUR FORMULA:

PARTICIPATION AND COLLABORATION

Team work is our working methodology

Our goal is to guarantee direct participation of cultural actors from Latin America and Europe

We aim at becoming a bridge that enables and promotes the permanent exchange of knowledge, experience, investment and good practices in the cultural field

PHOTOIILA – IILA

PRIZE

• IILA-FOTOGRAFIA PRIZE IS AYEARLY INTERNATIONAL PRIZELAUNCHED BY IILA IN 2008, WITHINTHE FRAMEWORK OF FOTOGRAFIA – FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE DIROMA, WITH THE PURPOSE

OF PROMOTING EMERGING LATIN-AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY, WHILEOFFERING OPPORTUNITIES FORINTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONSAND FOSTERING A NEW VISION OFITALY BY LATIN-AMERICANPHOTOGRAPHERS.

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