{"id":6069,"date":"2012-04-03T18:30:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T18:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/the-ufm-secretariat-attends-the-euro-mediterranean-conference-on-research-and-innovation-2\/"},"modified":"2012-04-03T18:30:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T18:30:08","slug":"the-ufm-secretariat-attends-the-euro-mediterranean-conference-on-research-and-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/ar\/the-ufm-secretariat-attends-the-euro-mediterranean-conference-on-research-and-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"The UfM Secretariat attends the Euro-Mediterranean Conference on Research and Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Barcelona, 3rd April 2012.-\u00a0<\/strong>Prof. Ilan Chet, Deputy Secretary General for Higher Education and Research, represented the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean at the\u00a0<em>Euro-Mediterranean Conference on Research and Innovation<\/em>\u00a0which was organized in Barcelona by the European Commission&#8217;s Research and Innovation DG on April 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0and 3<sup>rd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of the conference was to reinforce the international cooperation and launch a renewed partnership policy in Research and Innovation in order to address the common societal, economic and political changes affecting the Mediterranean region, particularly in the Southern countries. The discussion focused mainly on the fields of water, energy, health, transport, and marine environment.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was attended by approximately 350 top-level scientists and policy makers from more than 30 Euro-Mediterranean countries. Among those \u00a0attending the conference were:\u00a0Mrs. M\u00e1ire Geoghegan-Quinn, EU Commissioner for Research, Innovation, and Science;\u00a0 Mr. Lahcen Daoudi, Moroccan Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Training; Mr. Stavros Malas, Cypriot Minister of Health; and Amb. Fathallah Sijilmassi, Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Chet participated in the closing session of the meeting. He highlighted the connection between Research and Innovation (R&amp;I) and Higher Education and underlined that R&amp;I constitutes a long term project which usually doesn\u2019t coincide with aspirations of the politicians who have to show quick results. Furthermore, he suggested giving further incentives to researchers in order to create a stimulating environment and improve conditions for innovation. In addition, he stressed the importance of intellectual property in this critical period due to the economic crisis and the resulting cuts in university budgets.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Chet concluded by presenting a short summary of the projects which are currently being developed by the Division of Higher Education and Research. He informed about the establishment of a new International University in Fes (Morocco) which will focus on Euro-Mediterranean priority issues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ufms\/sets\/72157629545747104\/\" target=\"_blank\">See Photo Gallery<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/research\/conferences\/2012\/euro-mediterranean\/index_en.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Read more about the Euro-Mediterranean Conference on Research and Innovation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Ilan Chet highlighted the connection between Research and Innovation (R&#038;I) and Higher Education and suggested giving further incentives to researchers in order to create a stimulating  environment and improve conditions for innovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"priority-area":[],"class_list":["post-6069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-62"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6069"},{"taxonomy":"priority-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/priority-area?post=6069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}