Project Dissemination Partners

The main dissemination tools include the following:

e-Newsletters & monthly alerts

Presentations in third party events /articles

CECO’s website www.cstec.org.cn/ceco

Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH) - Greece | www.help-forward.gr

Epaminondas Christofilopoulos (epaminondas@help-forward.gr)

Chinese Science and Technology Exchange Centre/Ministry of Science and Technology (CECO) - China | www.cstec.org.cn/ceco

Dong Keqin (dongkq@cstec.org.cn)

Agenzia per la Promozione della Ricerca Europea (APRE) - Italy | www.apre.it

Dassina Di Maggio (dimaggio@apre.it)

International Institute for Software Technology (UNU-IIST) - China (Macau)United Nations University | www.iist.unu.edu Peter Haddawy (haddawy@iist.unu.edu)

Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação (SPI) - Portugal | www.spieurope.eu

Sara Medina (saramedina@spi.pt)

China-EU Center for Information & Communication Technologies in Agriculture, China Agricultural University (CAU-CICTA) - China| www.cicta.cn

Li Daoliang (dliangl@cau.edu.cn)

Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum (SEZ) - Germany | www.steinbeis-europa.de

Eduardo Herrmann (herrmann@steinbeis-europa.de)

Eurelations (EUREL) - Switzerland | www.eurelations.com

Andrea Degen Iseli (adegen@eurelations.com)

Federation of Industries of Northern (FING) - Greece|www.fing.gr

Katerina Tzitzinou (k.tzitzinou@sbbe.gr)

The University of Nottingham Ningbo - China | www.nottingham.edu.cn

Odette Paramor (odette.paramor@nottingham.edu.cn)

EMETRIS SA (EMETRIS) - Greece | www.emetris.gr

Stavros Mantzanakis (sm@emetris.gr)

European Commission Framework Programme

Dissemination activities

Leaflets & posters

Press releases

Project website

www.dragon-star.eu

Methodology

The main outputs of this project include, among others:

Chinese programme database;

Monthly opportunity alerts;

Industrial cooperation handbook;

Foresight report to identify future cooperation opportunities and threats, as well as trends and strategies in the fields of science and innovation;

Establishment & Operation of 10 Regional Contacts Points (RCPs) and 3 Thematic National Contact Points (NCPs);

Creation of a pilot liaison office in China to bring together the European research representations into a central hub and share and discuss collaboration opportunities and create forms of cooperation;

Project training workshops and dissemination events in China and Europe.

Strategic Objectives

Main OutputsTaking into account the importance of China in the financial world and its rapidly increasing role in the global research environment, Dragon-STAR will support the Sino-European collaboration at five levels:

Enhancing the quality of the Chinese participation in the Framework Programmes and especially reinforcing participation from less economically developed areas;

Supporting the reciprocity originating from the signed EU-China Scientific Cooperation Agreement;

Supporting the bilateral cooperation in the broader field of innovation and especially the technological cooperation between industrial players;

Supporting the ongoing bilateral Scientific Cooperation dialogue with studies and reports;

Supporting the research cooperation and dialogue in key priority areas (Strategic Forum for International S&T Cooperation - SFIC).

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[WP1] Project Management

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[WP2] National Contact Points (NCP) operation in China and promotion of collaboration opportunities in Europe and China

[WP3] Research Collaboration & Reciprocity: promotion of opportunities in Chinese research programmes and support to bilateral collaboration

[WP4] Research and Innovation:supporting technological cooperation

[WP5] Scientific Policy: supporting the EU-China S&T Policy Dialogue