4th High Level Industry-Science-Government Dialogue on Atlantic Interactions
Delivering the AIR Centre
- DATE25 › 27 November, 2018
- VenueAuditorium Alfredo Kraus
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
The 4th High Level Industry-Science-Government Dialogue: Delivering the Atlantic International Research Centre (AIR Centre) took place in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, on November 25-27, 2018.
The meeting presented the AIR Centre achievements in expanding the network, consolidating key partnerships and delivering scientific, technological and societal programmes and projects for the better understanding and preservation of marine and coastal ecosystems and for the benefit of all people living around the Atlantic Ocean and beyond.
Since the 3rd High-Level Dialogue held in Praia, Cape Verde, on May 7th-8th, the AIR Centre has taken important steps in the development of a scientific distributed network and an Atlantic joint framework that became visible with the signature during the event of different collaboration agreements between the AIR Centre and reference Science and Technology institutions at an international level.
Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs)
- MoU UNOOSAUnited Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs
- MoU INPEInstituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil
- MoU UFRJUniversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- MoU PSUPennsylvania State University, USA
- MoU Lifewatch ERICEuropean Research Infrastructure Consortium
- MoU GEO MBOMMarine Biodiversity Observation Network
Letters of Intent (LoIs)
- LoI for a Joint Framework to promote Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Capacity Building in the Atlantic Region.Download here
Signatories:
- IDESCO (Instituto Desenvolvimento, Estratégia e Conhecimento), BZ
- EIT Climate – KIC Spain, ES
- + Colab Atlântico, PT
- Ciência Viva, PT
- EIT InnoEnergy Iberia
- LoI for a Collaborative Framework and Trans-regional access to Atlantic Research InfrastructuresDownload here
Signatories:
- EMSO-ERIC (European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and Water Column Observatory)
- EMBRC-ERIC (European Marine Biological Resource Centre)
- SINTEF, Norway
- LifeWatch ERIC
- LoI towards a long-term Financing Framework to support Science, Innovation and Capacity Building in the Atlantic Region.Download here
Signatories:
- CYTED (Programa Iberoamericano de Ciencia y Tecnología para el Desarollo)
- FUNCAP (Fundação Cearense de Apoio Desenvolvimento Científico), BZ
- FRCT (Azores Fundo Regional para a Ciência e Tecnologia), PT
- CDTI (Centro Desarollo Tecnológico Industrial), ES
- FCT (Fundaçao Ciência e Tecnologia), PT
- AE (Agencia Estatal Investigación), ES
Canarias declaration
- The “Canarias declaration” was signed by the governments of Angola, Cape Verde, Nigeria, Portugal, Sao Tomé and Príncipe, Spain and the endorsement of South Africa, together with the regional government of the Azores.