The IncoNet Family

FP7 places a new emphasis on international research collaboration and provides a wider range of opportunities for international collaboration. In the Capacities programme there will be support for a range of activities to strengthen research capacity in the European scientific community and other regions of the world. Three initiatives will be supported: INCO-NETs, Bilateral Coordination and ERA-NETs. INCO-NETs will support international collaborations across FP7 with partner regions: Western Balkans; Mediterranean; Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Latin America; Subsahara-Africa and South East Asia.

INCO-NETs are platforms bringing together policy makers and stakeholders of one target region with the EU to:

• establish a dialogue to identify S&T priorities for mutual benefit and interest and define cooperation policy scenarios
• implement specific activities to promote and contribute to the participation of the targeted regions/countries in the Framework Programme.
  

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  topic CAAST-NET

  CAAST-NET

  CAAST-Net’s goal is to promote and facilitate an increase in the quality and quantity of EU-Africa cooperation in science and technology, primarily, although not exclusively focusing on greater use of the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme, and aiming for greater synergy between R&D and development cooperation instruments such as the EDF. To achieve this goal, CAAST-Net will support and inform the existing EU-Africa S&T policy dialogue and cooperation processes.
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  topic MIRA

  MIRA

  This Coordination Action, Mediterranean Innovation and Research Co-ordination Action (acronym: MIRA), aims to develop the dialogue EU-MPC, by bringing together policy makers and stakeholders of the Mediterranean Partners Countries (MPC: Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco) and EU countries, in strong contact with the political dialogue structured created by the Barcelona Process of Euro-Mediterranean dialogue through the Monitoring Committee for the Euro-Mediterranean S&T Cooperation in RTD, also named the Barcelona RTD Committee (MoCo).
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  topic WBC-INCO.NET

  WBC-INCO.NET

  WBC-INCO.NET’s core objectives are to support bi-regional dialogue between the EU, associated FP7 countries and the Western Balkan countries (WBC), to identify RTD priorities and potentials in the WBC and to enhance the participation of WBC researchers in European RTD projects by structural measures.
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  topic SEA-EU-NET

  SEA-EU-NET

  The SEA-EU-NET will increase the quality, quantity and impact of bi-regional Science and Technology (S&T) cooperation between the ten member countries of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Member- and Associated States of the European Union (EU).
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  topic EULARINET

  EULARINET

  EULARINET’s goal is to strengthen bi-regional dialogue on S&T between EU Member States (MS), Associated States (AS) and Latin American Partner Countries (LAPC) at policy, programme and institutional (research and industry entities) level, thus contributing to a three fold objective to: 1. Promote the joint identification, establishment, implementation and monitoring of mutual interest priorities of future work programmes across the Specific Programmes of FP7 and future FPs; 2. Jointly define S&T co-operation policies; 3. Support and stimulate the participation of LAPC in FP7.
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