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EURASIAPAC Final Workshop Report Camille Torrenti, SIGMA ORIONIS
Document Number D3.4
Document Title EURASIAPAC Final Workshop Report
Version 1.0
Status Final
Deliverable Type Report
Contractual Date of Delivery 31.12.2012
Actual Date of Delivery 07.12.2012
Contributors SIGMA ORIONIS
Keyword List Workshop, ICT research, Cooperation, Priorities, Asia-Pacific
Dissemination level PU
TABLE OF CONTENT
1. INTRODUCTION
2. WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES
3. PROGRAMME
4. PROMOTION
5. AUDIENCE
6. EVENT OUTPUTS
7. CONCLUSIONS AND LESSONS LEARNT
1 INTRODUCTION
The EURASIAPAC final Workshop took place on November 30, 2011 at the Radisson
Blu Royal Hotel in Brussels. This event was the last one of a series of 6 cooperation
workshops organised in Europe and Asia-Pacific over the period 2010-2011 by the
EURASIAPAC project.
2 WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES
The focus of the workshop was to discuss cooperation opportunities, in terms of
projects, programmes and initiatives, likely to strengthen ICT research cooperation between
Europe and Asia-Pacific countries: Japan, Republic of South Korea, Australia, and New-
Zealand.
To achieve this goal, the main stakeholders from Europe and from the targeted
countries, involved or interested in such cooperation, have been invited to participate in the
different workshop sessions. Among them: officials from the European Commission’s DG
Information Society and Media, (DG Infso) and from national agencies or missions to the
European Union of each target country, coordinators of ongoing EU funded projects
addressing S&T cooperation between Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.
On the occasion of the workshop, and in order to support planned discussions, the
presentation of two key outputs of the EURASIAPAC project was planned:
! the “EURASIAPAC Cooperation Portal” developed in order to provide an
opportunity to any interested researchers to access relevant background
information and useful contacts, thus supporting their efforts to develop
effective projects,
! the “EU-Asia-Pacific ICT Cooperation Strategy”, identifying cooperation
priorities and proposing recommendations to the European Commission,
based on the outputs of thematic workshops organized by EURASIAPAC and
on an in-depth survey of researchers from two regions.
3 PROGRAMME
The workshop agenda (see next page) was quite well balanced between
presentations from Europe and from the Asia-Pacific region (beyond officials, speakers from
this region had been directly invited by the EURASIAPAC local partner).
Final EURASIAPAC Workshop - Nov. 30, 2011 - Brussels Opening Session
Final Workshop Agenda
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4 Promotion
Important efforts have been done to reach satisfactory qualitative and quantitative
levels of participation in order to ensure that the workshop objectives could be effectively
reached.
These efforts focused on internal promotion:
• Workshop highlighted on the EURASIAPAC website,
• Promotion of the event through the EURASIAPAC LinkedIn Group, its Twitter
account, etc.,
• Release of successive eNewsletters,
• Targeted email blasts,
• Promotion through the EURASIAPAC Advisory Group.
Efforts also focused on external promotion:
• Posts on several European Commission’s websites (EU Agenda, Cordis Wire,
DG Infso newsletters),
• Provision of relevant information to the International relations DG Infso Unit for
internal dissemination,
• Information sent to various European projects and constituencies (among
them the FIA community, and ETPs such as NEM and Net!Works),
• Information relayed by other EU-funded projects targeting the Asia-Pacific
region: BILAT, INCONET, ACCESS4-EU and ERANET projects.
Evolution of the membership of the EURASIAPAC LinkedIn community
5 AUDIENCE
Out of 110+ registered participants, around 90 delegates have participated in the
event (see final attendee list on next page), which is a rather good ratio for a registration-free
project workshop. As the event was held in Europe, a majority of attendees were logically
from European countries. However, 21% of attendees were from Asia-Pacific countries
(flying from these countries to attend the workshop or belonging to organizations from these
countries based in Europe).
Attendees belonged to private organisations (38%), governmental institutions (21%)
and Universities (17%). European Commission delegates and NGO/associations were also
present (12% each). This achieved balance between delegates was particularly satisfactory
when considering workshop objectives.
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Final Attendee list # Family name First name Organisation Country 1 Ancans Alvis European Commission Belgium 2 Baik Sungjin Bryan KIAT Korea 3 Balli Giovanni AutoGlobal BN Belgium 4 Barani Bernard European Commission Belgium 5 Bartneck Christoph University of Canterbury New Zealand
6 Berndt Hendrik DOCOMO Communications Laboratories Germany
7 Birkett Alison European Commission Belgium 8 Boethius Eva European Commission Belgium 9 Bulto Olivier K-city Belgium 10 Carbone Maria European Commission Belgium 11 Carvalho Jorge European Commission Belgium 12 Charlaftis Aggelos Epaphos Belgium 13 Cho Young Hwan ETRI Korea 14 Clarke Jim Waterford IT Ireland 15 Danet Pierre-Yves Orange France
16 Daniell Katherine The Australian National University Australia
17 Davies Gareth KIAT Korea 18 De Lama Nuria ATOS Spain 19 De Rose Gabriella Moverim Consulting Italy 20 Desvignes-Hicks Jean-Francois FEAST Australia 21 Dilo Arta University of Twente Netherlands 22 Kim Dong Hwa Hanbat National University Korea 23 Eisenhauer Markus Fraunhofer FIT Germany 24 Faletic Rado FEAST Australia
25 Falloon Karla New Zealand Ministry of Research, Science & Technology Belgium
26 Fillon Ashida Pierre-Yves European Commission Belgium
27 Gallagher Martin Australian Embassy and Mission to the EU Australia
28 Gimenez Roberto Hi-Iberia Spain 29 Hishinuma Hiroyuki NICT France
30 Ichioka Toshiyasu EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation Japan
31 Inoue Jun Mission of Japan to the EU Japan 32 Ishigami Megumi AWSM Japan 33 Kalbe Gustav European Commission Belgium 34 Kitada Takayohsi Mitsubishi Research Institute Japan 35 Kraus Fernando Atos Origin Spain 36 Kreyssig Juergen Ostfalia Germany 37 Lagunas Miguel Angel CTTC Spain 38 Legisa Katja Teseo Belgium 39 Lock-Fuerst Claudia The 451 Group United Kingdom 40 Lubs Marie T. Egmont IRRI Belgium 41 Malache Jacques International PRESS Agency Belgium 42 Martemucci Francesca Teseo Belgium
43 Masuda Takeo OITDA Japan 44 Matzner Kay Fraunhofer Germany 45 McCormick David McCormickIT Australia 46 McHugh Jonathan New Ventures Belgium 47 McManus Gary TSSG Ireland 48 Melzer Georg Eutema Austria 49 Morales Stephanie Sigma Orionis France 50 Morgan Gary CSIRO Australia 51 Muehleck Martin European Commission Belgium 52 Nikolova Tanya European Commission Belgium 53 Nivolianitou Zoe NCSR Greece 54 Oliveira Carlos European Commission Belgium 55 Otto Erik Hitachi Corporate Office Belgium 56 Pasic Aljosa Atos Research & Innovation Spain 57 Pasquale Cinzia Angieurope Belgium 58 Peirce Trevor AVANTA Global Belgium 59 Perez-Neira Ana CTTC Spain 60 Polanska Zuzana Masaryk University Czech Republic 61 Poppe Toon Heart Link Online Belgium
62 Rieke Thomas Representation of Saxony-Anhalt to the EU Germany
63 Riguidel Michel Telecom ParisTech France
64 Ruecker Gerd International Bureau of the BMBF Germany
65 Salmelin Bror European Commission Belgium
66 Sandhu Jim Inclusive Design Research Associates Limited United Kingdom
67 Sekiguchi Satoshi AIST Japan 68 Shim Gitae KOTEF Korea 69 Siebert Fridtjof Aicas Germany 70 Skellern David Macquarie University Australia 71 Stähle Hans-Jörg International Bureau of BMBF Germany 72 Steffens Ulrike OFFIS Germany 73 Takeda Yashushi NEC Europe Belgium 74 Tazi Chaima Double You Belgium 75 Torrenti Roger Sigma Orionis France 76 Torrenti Camille Sigma Orionis France
77 Trinh Tuan Budapest University of Technology and Economics Hungary
78 Tsagalidis Ross W FMKE/SITIO Sweden 79 Van Caenegem Bart European Commission Belgium
80 Van Gucht Katrien Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology Belgium
81 Verraes Tanguy European Research Council Belgium 82 Waha Stephane NCP-Wallonie Belgium
83 Yoonjong Chun Mission of the Republic of Korea to the EU Belgium
84 Yuncken Elizabeth CSIRO Australia 85 Zic John CSIRO Australia
6 EVENT OUTPUTS
Welcome session
The event started with a welcome address on “Cooperation on ICT research between
Europe and Asia-Pacific” delivered by Maria Carbone, Deputy Head of the International
Relations Unit at DG Infso. Ms Carbone outlined the number of successful collaboration
projects with Asia-Pacific in FP7 and shared her hopes on the sustainability and
reinforcement of this collaboration through the remaining FP7 calls and the announced
Horizon 2020 framework programme.
Following this introduction, officials from the different Asia-Pacific Missions to the
European Union introduced their respective countries in terms of ICT development status
and perspectives and of cooperation activities with Europe:
• Karla Falloon, Counsellor Science and Innovation of the New Zealand Mission to the
EU, provided a snapshot of her country, introduced the role of ICT in New Zealand
and the country strengths in this sector, promoted cooperation with New Zealand and
gave many examples of an increasing cooperation scheme with Europe on STI
issues in general, and on ICT research in particular.
• Jun Inoue, First Secretary of the Japan Mission to the EU highlighted the efforts done
by the Japanese Government towards ICT R&D investment, Japan ranking as the 2nd
country of the world in terms of ICT R&D expenditures and patent funds. He also
expressed his confidence that the recently signed S&T agreement between Europe
and Japan will support a stronger development of cooperation in ICT research.
• Martin Gallagher, Counsellor of the Australian Embassy and Mission to the EU
underlined the research links that already exist between Australia and the other
countries of the Asia-Pacific region, addressed the challenges and opportunities of
the EURASIAPAC strategy and envisioned a “EURASIAPAC broadband enabled
economy forum”.
• Chun Yoonjong, Commercial Counsellor of the Republic of Korea Mission to the EU,
provided a thorough overview of ICT in Korea (ICT industry in Korean economy, key
products and infrastructures, R&D policy changes and public budget) and addressed
cooperation with Europe, namely in the framework of Eureka.
Session on cooperation status and perspectives between Europe and Asia-Pacific Chaired by Gary Morgan, Director Business and International at the ICT Centre of CSIRO,
Australia.
In an introduction, Kay Matzner, from the Fraunhofer Institute, EURASIAPAC project
coordinator, presented the project results arising from each country roadmap surveys and
the two project main outcomes: the “EURASIAPAC ICT Cooperation Strategy” and the
“EURASIAPAC Cooperation Portal”.
Then, Carlos Oliveira, Policy Officer from DG Infso shared with the audience the
results of a recent assessment report from ISTAG (IST Advisory Group) focusing on priorities
of international cooperation under FP7 and Horizon 2020. Among priorities identified by
ISTAG for the Asia-Pacific region: a prospective joint call with Japan, cooperation with
Australia on Healthy ageing, Trust and security, and Sustainable cities, and cooperation with
Korea on Future Internet / Internet of Things, smart grids, and security and safe cities.
A panel discussion with other European and Asia-Pacific initiatives then focused on “S&T
Cooperation beyond the ICT theme“ and included contributions from:
• Toshiyasu Ichioka from the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation in Japan, who
introduced the J-BILAT project.
• Hans-Jörg Stähle from DLR, Germany, who presented the AU-ACCESS4EU,
KORANET and CONCERT-Japan projects.
• Rado Faletic, Executive Director from FEAST, Australia, who presented the FEAST
project and Australia strengths in terms of research collaboration with Europe.
• Karla Falloon, who introduced the ACCESS4EU:NZ and PACENET projects and
invited Mr Gerd Rücker, Senior Scientific Officer at the International Bureau of the
BMBF in Germany, to present the ACCESS4EU:NZ project in detail.
Session on cooperation priorities in ICT research between Europe and Asia-Pacific
Chaired by Roger Torrenti, CEO of Sigma Orionis, EURASIAPAC project partner.
The session started with a presentation from Bernard Barani, Policy Coordinator of
Converged Networks and services at DG Infso, who addressed the status of cooperation with
Japan on Future Internet aspects (NWGN in Japan), and addressed perspectives for FP7
and Horizon 2020, namely thanks to the ongoing dialogue between DG Infso and MIC, its
counterpart in Japan, which could lead to an agreement on a Joint Call to be announced in
mid-2012 (6 priorities currently identified).
Then a panel discussion, with an active participation from the audience, addressed priorities
of cooperation in ICT research between the two regions, including presentations from:
• David Skellern, former CEO of National ICT Australia (NICTA), who underlined the
importance of identifying areas of alignment for countries while setting-up strategic
priorities for Australia towards the next EU calls.
• Markus Eisenhauer from the Future Internet Enterprise Systems Cluster (FInES), who
introduced this network and underlined the importance of shared interests and
reciprocity in cooperation.
• Hiroyuki Hishinuma, Director of the Europe Center of the National Institute of
Information and Communications Technology (NICT), who presented the NWGN
programme, stressed the importance of green ICT, and addressed the cooperation
perspectives with the EU (and the USA) on NWGN.
• Jim Clarke from TSSG (Waterford Institute of Technology) in Ireland, who presented
the outputs of the BIC international forum, held the day before, on trust and security
issues.
• Young Whan Cho, Principal Researcher in the market research team of ETRI, Korea,
who gave a complete overview of ICT R&D policy in Korea, focusing on ICT
convergence.
Session on roadmap & opportunities
Chaired by Fernando Kraus Sanchez, Foreign affairs manager at ATOS Origin Spain,
EURASIAPAC project partner.
This session was aimed at envisioning a roadmap for cooperation in ICT research between
the two regions, and included contributions from:
• Georg Melzer from Eutema, Austria, who presented the outputs and lessons learnt to
date within the SECAS FP7 project addressing cooperation in ICT research with
Australia (and Singapore).
• Nuria De Lama, the representative of ATOS Research & Innovation to the European
Commission, who underlined the potential of the Future Internet programme in terms
of international cooperation, in particular of FIppp projects (e.g. FI-WARE).
• Gary Morgan, who underlined Australian priorities in ICT research (healthy ageing,
trust and security) and expressed his confidence in a reinforced EU-Australia
cooperation, particularly thanks to a planed joint call focusing on FP7 Challenge 5.
• Satoshi Sekiguchi from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and
Technology (AIST) in Japan, who introduced his organization, gave insights into
Japanese research culture, and presented strategic recommendations and identified
cooperation opportunities.
• Christoph Bartneck, from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, who shared his
view (from an academic perspective), on how to improve cooperation between the EU
and New-Zealand.
• Bryan Sungjin Baik, Principal Researcher and European Representative from KIAT in
Korea, who reported on EU-Korea cooperation and recommended in particular to try
and involve Korean SMEs in future FP7 calls.
The workshop concluded with a short closing session, including addresses by Kay
Matzner, EURASIAPAC project coordinator and Alvis Ancans, EURASIAPAC Project Officer.
The speakers were warmly congratulated for their excellent inputs and all participants were
thanked for their presence and active participation.
Finally a networking cocktail was offered to delegates to facilitate further interaction in
a more informal atmosphere.
7 CONCLUSIONS AND LESSONS LEARNT
The EURASIAPAC project partners are very happy to have succeeded attracting to
this workshop the right audience, including the major institutions from both regions involved
in cooperation policy and activities addressing S&T cooperation in ICT, and a mix of leading
research and academia from both regions already active in this cooperation.
The feedback received from speakers and delegates during and after the event has
been very positive and not surprisingly since the potential of cooperation between Europe
and Asia-Pacific in ICT research appears as important today, at a time when:
! Awareness on this cooperation potential (which the EURASIAPAC project has
contributed to raise) is now satisfactory, most key stakeholders from the two regions
being aware of it,
! Stakeholders of the two regions are now well connected and ready to take advantage
of cooperation opportunities (the LinkedIn community developed by the
EURASIAPAC project providing a tool supporting further networking and
communication between them),
! Priorities of cooperation have been quite well identified between Europe and each
target country (the “EURASIAPAC cooperation strategy” complementing other
exercises of a similar nature),
! An increasing number of concrete cooperation opportunities logically exist, in
particular under FP7 (and under its succeeding Horizon 2020 programme) thanks to a
strengthened dialogue between the European Commission and its counterparts in the
Asia-Pacific region, to the signature of S&T agreements, to match-funding
mechanisms implemented by Asia-Pacific countries, by joint calls considered in the
short term by the European Commission and its counterparts in the Asia-Pacific
region.
The FP7 is open to international cooperation. The recent ISTAG assessment report
and the current European Commission’s proposal regarding Horizon 2020 confirm that the
European research-funding programme should remain widely open to international for well-
known reasons, discussed during the workshop.
In this context, and even if other regions of the world also offer a true cooperation
potential with Europe, it can be only recommended that, considering the increasing role that
the Asia-Pacific region will have in the global context and the existing perspectives of mutual
interest, this region is given a high priority in EU programmes for the next years.