19 Dec 2023
EU and Brazil discuss R&I cooperation at Joint Steering Committee meeting
The 11th Joint Steering Committee meeting (JSCM) on research and innovation cooperation between the EU and Brazil was held on 12 December 2023 in Brasilia, hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil/Itamaraty and co-chaired by Ambassador Luciano Mazza de Andrade, Director of the Department for Science, Technology, Innovation, and Intellectual Property, at Itamaraty, and Maria Cristina Russo, Director for International Cooperation at EC DG Research and Innovation.
Brazil is a major partner for the EU in research and innovation. Among Latin American countries, Brazil enjoys the largest number of participations in the EU research innovation framework programmes. There is a dynamic cooperation with Brazil in a wide range of areas such as ocean research, biodiversity and Nature Based Solutions, research infrastructures, sustainable aviation, sustainable agriculture, health, and space research.
The Joint Steering Committee meeting of 12 December acknowledged the central role of research and innovation (R&I) in the overall EU-Brazil Strategic Partnership and confirmed the willingness of both sides to intensify R&I cooperation in shared focus areas including:
- Copernicus Administrative Arrangement and Forest and Wildfires Monitoring
- Forests Monitoring/Early Warning Systems
- Innovation, notably through the possible Association of Brazil to the Eureka,planned to be finalised at theduring the Global Innovation Summit in June 2024, and the new EU-CELAC Working Group on Innovation.
- Sustainable raw materials value chains with enhanced cooperation to support the clean energy and digital transition.
- Digital transition
- Marine research under the successfully All-Atlantic Ocean Research and Innovation Alliance (AAORIA).
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