Recomendación de los señores de Aleti:
An EU-Latin America international conference will take place in Brussels, on Monday and Tuesday 28 and 29 November 2011. ‘Fostering EU-Latin America ICT Policy Dialogue’ will be an important forum for European and Latin-American stakeholders of ICT research and innovation and EU-LAC cooperation to discuss strategies to intensify cooperation in Information and Communication Technologies. An expert and important attendance from Europe and Latin America including ministry and government representatives, universities, technological centres, research and innovation funding agencies, as well as industry and industry federations from each region interested in cooperation with Latin America and with Europe, is expected: Opened by the Ambassador of Chile in his capacity as the President of the Latin-American and the Caribbean countries in their dialogue with the European Union, ‘Fostering EU-Latin America ICT Policy Dialogue’ will feature as speakers the EU-LAC Senior Officials ICT working Group representatives and the Directors of Latin-American government research agencies (Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay, among others) as well as representatives from the European Commission and European Member States. A session is also planned at the European Parliament to showcase Latin-American technological excellences and ideas for cooperative research with Europe.
The conference is organized by the FORESTA project funded under the EU’s 7th Framework Programme to support R&D cooperation between Latin America and Europe in the field of ICT. In the last two years the FORESTA project has performed intense consultation with researchers, industry, policy makers and other stakeholders of research and innovation cooperation and has organised high-level policy conferences in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico. Studies, recommendations and position papers in support of a Euro – Latin America coordinated strategy in ICT research have been produced. Building on these results and involving other projects and initiatives in this mission, ‘Fostering EU-Latin America ICT Policy Dialogue’aims to develop strategic recommendations in support of a reinforced EU-LA ICT cooperation that will be streamlined into a Joint Declaration to be presented to representatives of the European Commission, the European Parliament and Latin-American governments and the press in the closing session of the event at the European Parliament.
For further information visit: www.forestaproject.eu