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>ASIA-ECOBEST ROUNDTABLE
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>Asian Environmental needs, European advanced solutions: bridging the gap
>through R&D collaboration
>Macau Scientific and Cultural Centre - LISBON, 12 + 13 MARCH 2001
>
>ORGANISERS:
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>ADI (The Agency for Innovation), PORTUGAL
>CDTI (Centre for the Technological Industrial Development), SPAIN
>CPTTM (Macao Productivity and Technology Transfer Centre), CHINA
>
>Sponsors: RIET (The Regional Institute of Environmental Technology),
>SINGAPORE
> ASIA-ECOBEST (DG External Relations)
>
>BACKGROUND:
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>As Asian economies have reached, during the last decades, unprecedented
>levels of economic growth, so the need to improve environmental quality has
>become a major issue.
>Many European SME's and R&D institutions have the technical skills and tools
>which, when properly adapted to local conditions in Asia, could prove
>adequate of solving the current environment problems.
>There is, therefore, a clear potential for the mutually beneficial matching
>of problem-owners and solution -providers.
>However, the both sides of the equation often appear in a fragmented way and
>may lack both the resources and channels to identify and reach the
>appropriate partners, a fact that highlights the need to develop matching
>mechanisms that network interested organisations in the two regions.
>
>OBJECTIVES:
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>* To identify and assess the existing opportunities and current
>support and networking mechanisms and how effective they are;
>* To identify the lessons to be learnt from actual collaboration
>experiences, case studies including their results and difficulties;
>* To discuss ways of facilitating a more systematic gathering of
>information about both the results of European R&D and specific Asian needs,
>and to disseminate the former in Asia.
>* To discuss and develop an approach to enhance the effectiveness of
>the European instruments and to analyse how the Asia-EcoBest project or
>other similar EU programmes could synergise the actions taken by EU Member
>States to strengthen environmental R&D co-operation between Asian and
>European organisations.
>
>TARGET ORGANISATIONS:
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>* SME's and research organisations that own advanced R&D results in
>the environmental area
>* Policy-makers and S&T development and diffusion Agencies
>* Research-industry interface organisations and national productivity
>centres
>* Members of international research co-operation networks
>* Any organisation that might be interested in benefiting from an
>enhanced dissemination of European environmental research results.
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>CONTACTS:
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>ADI - The Portuguese Agency for Innovation
>Rita Silva
>Tel. +351 21 7210910
>Fax: + 351 21 727 17 33
>e-mail: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>For further information, on-line Registration and Preliminary Programme:
>www.adi.pt/rtable <http://www.adi.pt/rtable>
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Dr Ruth Hillary
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