Abstract

The JPI Urban Europe was established in 2011. Joint Programming means a structured and strategic process, whereby Member States of the European Union voluntarily agree to work in partnership towards common visions, encapsulated in a Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda and implemented through joint actions.The presentation will provide insights in the aims, structures, activities and experiences of the JPI Urban Europe and preliminary results and experiences of the pilot call for proposals between NSFC and nine funding agencies from Europe.

Presenter Profile

Manfred Horvat is independent expert for international research and technology policies, programmes and instruments and their evaluation and impact assessment. He is Honorary Professor at Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) in Austria and Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) in Russia where he co-chairs the International Scientific Council (Chair: Dan Shechtman). Currently, he is Adjunct Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway, with focus on cooperation with China in the area of sustainable urbanisation.Since 1989, he has been involved in S&T cooperation between the EU and China in many activities such as reviewing the EU-China S&T cooperation (2008), as international advisor of the Chinese National Center for Science and Technology Evaluation (NCSTE) supporting the first international evaluation of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) by contributing to the Synthesis Evidence Report, or as lecturer on EU S&I policy at several places in China (2016). Currently he serves the Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe as Senior Advisor for STI Cooperation with China, developing long-term cooperation with NSFC in particular. In addition, he chairs the Advisory Board of the Horizon 2020 URBAN EU-CHINA Innovation Platform for Sustainable Urbanisation. For both initiatives, he provides in-depth analyses on China’s policies of new-type urbanisation and the thirteenth five-year plans.