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EU-Israel Cooperation in Business, Science and
TechnologyDr Giancarlo Caratti, Head of Unit
Customer and Stakeholder Relations Joint
Research Centre, European CommissionThe Future
of EU-Israel Cooperation5 December
2008http//www.jrc.ec.europa.eu
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EU - Israel Political Context

• Legal Basis EU-Israel Association Agreement
  (signed in 1995). It includes Articles on ST
  cooperation and Economic cooperation
• Israel is a Partner Country of the European
  Neighbourhood Policy and its Action Plan was
  adopted in April 2005. EU financial Support under
  European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument
  (ENPI) 14 million for the period 2007-2013

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Political Context Recent Development

• EU-Israel Association Council 5/3/2007
• Israel wished to significantly upgrade its
  relations with the EU, based on strengthened
  political dialogue and significant integration in
  the European Internal Market and in European
  agencies, programmes and working groups
• EU-Israel Association Council 16/6//2008
• EU welcomed Israeli wish to upgrade relations
• Identified areas in which a deepening of
  relations is wished by both sides, and on which
  further work is needed
• Israel is also interested to cooperate and/or
  join in several of EU Agencies, Bodies and
  Community Programmes and Initiatives

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EUs relations with Israel

• The Commission suggests the following areas for
  deepened cooperation, (based on the priorities of
  the current ENP Action Plan)
• Economic and social cooperation and development
• Trade-related issues, market and regulatory
  reform
• cooperation in Justice and Home Affairs
• transport,
• energy,
• information society,
• environment and science and technology
• people to people contacts (including education
  and health).

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EU Israel Business relations

• Current priorities
• EU-Israel Business Dialogue launched on
  31/10/2007
• Negotiations underway on Agreement on Conformity
  Assessment and Acceptance of Industrial Products
• Trade negotiations underway on processed
  agricultural goods
• Co-operation on space and security research
  policy 
• Participation of Israel in EU Competitiveness and
  Innovation programme and as a consequence, in
  Enterprise Europe Network and Euro Mediterranean
  Charter

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Israel - Collaboration on RD

• Israel is one of the first non-EU countries to be
  fully associated to EU Research (since 1996)
• Science and Technology Agreement associating
  Israel to FP7 (EC 2007-2013) was signed on 16
  July, 2007
• The Israeli (civil) research expenditure is very
  high (4,7 of GDP), industry contributes a much
  bigger part than in the EU.
• Israel has excellent universities and research
  organisations, a comparatively large number of
  high tech start ups, in particular in the ICT
  sector. There is strong university industry
  collaboration actively supported by the government

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Israeli participation in FP6 and FP7

• FP6 (2002-2006)
• Israeli participation regarded as a successful
  from both sides
• 784 Israeli organisations/researchers
  participated in 576 projects ()
• Total budget of contract 3.55 b, of which 204
  M went directly to Israeli organisations ()
• Strong areas ICT, Life Science, Mobility
• FP7 (2007-2013, preliminary information -
  February 2008)
• Improvement in proposal success rate (from 16.6
  to 18.3)
• After first calls 267 projects approved involving
  Israeli participants
• Strong areas ICT, Ideas, People (mobility)

() data from Iserd
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JRC Structure 7 Institutes in 5 Member States
IRMM - Geel, Belgium Institute for Reference
Materials and Measurements ITU - Karlsruhe,
Germany Institute for Transuranium Elements IE -
Petten, The Netherlands and Ispra, Italy
Institute for Energy IPSC - Ispra,
Italy Institute for the Protection and Security
of the Citizen IES - Ispra, Italy Institute for
Environment and Sustainability IHCP - Ispra,
Italy Institute for Health and Consumer
Protection IPTS - Seville, Spain Institute for
Prospective Technological Studies
2650 staff 250 competitive 330 M/y budget
( 40 M/y competitive income)
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The Mission of the Joint Research Centre
to provide customer-driven scientific and
technical support for the conception,
development, implementation and monitoring of EU
policies.
As a service of the European Commission, the JRC
functions as a reference centre of science and
technology for the Union.
Close to the policy-making process, it serves the
common interest of the Member States, while being
independent of special interests, whether private
or national.
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Current JRC Priorities

• Contribute to the European Strategic Energy
  Technology (SET) Plan, drafting an updated
  Technology Map (status and prospects of key
  energy technologies) and a Capacities Map
  (sketching the energy research capacities and
  infrastructures in the EU Member States)
• Support EU Climate Change policy aimed at
  limiting Global Climate Change to 2C compared to
  pre-industrial level, by means of climate change
  research, scenario development, socio-economic
  impact studies, etc.
• Increasing Internal and External Security
  (addressing terrorist threats, combating
  proliferation of CBRN, support to border control,
  )
• Support to the Lisbon Goals (monitoring of
  research policies and of relevant indicators in
  EU, digital divide, econometric tools, interplay
  between innovation and regulation, standards and
  references in support of growth, )

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Example JRCs contribution to GMES

• Long-standing experience in support to a range of
  Community policies requiring GMES related
  information, e.g. in the areas of
• Natural Resources
• Agriculture
• Environment
• Development andHumanitarian Aid
• Global Change
• Civil Protection
• Security

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Example JRC activities related to GMOs

• CRL for GMOs in food and feed
• a consortium of 120 national GMO enforcement
  control laboratories from EU Member States and
  partner countries
• Development of science-based validation and
  harmonization of analytical tools for the
  traceability and authentication of GMOs and their
  derived products
• Examples corn (Bt10),rice (LL601, Bt63,), .
• Scientific support to Commission in formulating
  regulations concerning labelling of GM-bearing
  food, detection limits of non-authorized GMOs
• Studies on co-existence measures for GMO-bearing
  and non-GMO crops, on performance of GMO-bearing
  crops 2008 host of the European Co-existence
  Bureau for studying co-existence measures of
  selected crops
• Production of reference materials for GMO-bearing
  food and feed

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Example Food Safety and Quality

• Method development, validation harmonisation
  (e.g. food allergen and BSE tests 20 BSE tests
  evaluated, 12 of which approved by Commission)
• Measurement evaluation programmes (e.g. heavy
  metals)
• Proficiency testing (e.g. acrylamide)
• Monitoring data bases (e.g. European wine)
• Reference materials
• Help desk in emergency cases

• 6 Community Reference Laboratories (DG SANCO)
• Feed additives
• Mycotoxins
• Poly-aromatic hydrocarbons
• Heavy metals in food and feed
• GMOs in food and feed
• Food contact materials

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JRC Collaborating with FP7 Associated Countries

• Opportunities for
• Projects (institutional networks, joint
  submissions to FP7 calls, collaboration
  agreements)
• Work opportunities (e.g. visiting scientists on
  sabbatical leave, grant-holders, trainees)
• Advanced training courses and workshops

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JRC Israel collaboration

• 1. Projects and Networks
• 11 Israeli research organisations are
  collaborating with JRC in 14 projects in research
  areas, such as food safety and quality,
  nanotechnology, photovoltaics, health,
  environment, chemicals and energy
• 2 Workshops
• 18 Israeli experts participated in JRC workshops
  and trainings (focused on ST aspects of EU
  legislation) in 2007
• 3 JRC contacts in Israel
• Board of Governors Member Dr Shlomo WALD, Chief
  Scientist Ministry for National Infrastructure
• NCP Mr Marcel Shaton, Director ISERD

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Conclusions

• Intensive dialogue EU-Israel across several
  policy areas. The objective is to develop close
  relationship beyond previous level of
  collaborations, including a significant level of
  economic integration and deepening political
  cooperation.
• Israel is interested to cooperate and/or join in
  several EU Agencies, Bodies and Community
  Programmes and Initiatives
• Israel is fully integrated in the EU research
  programme and both the EU and Israel are
  benefitting from it
• The JRC is promoting closer collaboration with
  Israel in policy-relevant research (environment,
  renewables, security, etc.)

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