#MeridConference: many thanks everyone for participating in our final conference, off and online. A special thank to Kinga Konya, project manager of @emuni, for her support and for the event organization.
#sciencediplomacy#MiddleEast#H2020
“Future EU-MED cooperation opportunities and recommendations for an enhanced EU – Middle East STI cooperation” final report discussion going on at #meridconference#merid2018 @HoteliBernardin #Portoroz @agoramerid #sciencediplomacy#H2020
George Bonas, of CeRISS #Greece, presents how to structure recommendations to develop #H2020 proposals and presents the role of NCPs to provide general information on H2020 - plus Legal and Administrative support for proposals and grants #MeridConference https://t.co/byN2Vpa0ng
Angel Saz Carranza, Professor, Department of Strategy & General Management in @ESADE: "While the policy dialogue with #Iran was advancing rapidly, the situation with #Iraq was different. Iraq is facing many challenges in its #science, #technology and #innovation” #MeridConference
Federico Ruberti of @ScomEu: "The aim of communication activities was to build a community and connect #research with the large public. #MeridConference hashtag generated more than 4000 impressions so far: we thank all the people online for the support & the interest expressed"
Nazanin Daneshkhah, Department of International Affair Iramot, #Iran “Iranian interests in participation for #H2020 and EU’s future R&I programme has been increased during the last 3 years, the Iranian researchers are very interested in communication with Europe" #MeridConference
Samir Badrawi, Scientific Information & Technology Transfer Center, Ministry of Science and technology, #Iraq: “How Merid improved the situation in Iraq? With an high level support and participation of PM Office involvement to set NCPs for #H2020 and Erasmus..." #MeridConference
Belal Abuvas, #research coordinator, University of Gaza, #Palestine: “In Palestine we have faced many problems to encourage our researchers to participate in #H2020 calls; so we had many meetings with scientific research council and DG for research" #MeridConference
Muhammad Shatanawi, Professor of #Water Resources & Irrigation, University of #Jordan“ The Merid Project was useful to prepare a comprehensive report about the status of scientific #research in Jordan. Involving different scientific institutes in Jordan dialogue" #MeridConference
Tarek El Arabi, professor at the Department of Agriculture Microbiology, #Egypt “The participation of Egypt was transversal; among the achieved impacts: strategic priority setting for #cooperation with the Union’s international partners across #H2020" #MeridConference
Rula Atwehn, Officer Programme of @CNRSL, #Lebanon: “Discussion in Beirut focused on potential #cooperation opportunities (NCP & Dissemination) to establish contacts with #EU Researchers, Preparation and Management of Joint Research Activities" #MeridConference#sciencediplomacy
Omar Amawi of HCST, #Jordan "@PRIMA_Fundacion was build on the principle of partnership, on co-decision and co-funding to share the benefit of mutual interest." #MeridNCPbrokerage