This workshop will be held on 31st of January 2018 at Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washington DC from 1:30 pm until 7p and reception will feature U.S. federal funding agencies (NSF, USDA, EPA, and NOAA) together with European Joint Programming Initiatives (JPIs). JPIs are EU Member States driven initiatives in which EU national funding agencies join forces and coordinate efforts to fund research for tackling global societal challenges jointly. The workshop that will cover topics of antimicrobial resistance, water, health, marine, agriculture, and climate is a follow-up of an event that took place in Brussels in November 2016. At the first joint JPI - U.S. funding agency workshop US federal agencies as well as JPI representatives met and expressed their large interest to cooperate. This second workshop will feature best practices of U.S.-EU research collaboration on these global social challenges. It will also present the results and concrete cooperation potentials coming out of the bilateral meetings between US agencies and the JPIs in the form of panel discussions on each topic. Members of U.S. federal agencies are encouraged to attend to learn both about these experiences as well as potential areas of collaboration with European counterparts.
Workshop Objectives:
1. Identify emerging topics for potential future joint calls for U.S.-EU research collaboration
2. Facilitate exchange of knowledge and cooperation with key research funding agencies in the U.S. and EU
3. Share best practices in how U.S. federal agencies and European JPIs / national funding agencies can collaborate on topics of mutual interest.
Reception to follow.
Agenda
13:30 p.m.-14:00 p.m. Registration and Coffee
14:00 p.m.-14:15 p.m. Welcome and Introduction
Berna Windischbaur, BILAT-USA4.0 Project Manager, Austrian Research Promotion Agency
Mary Kavanagh, Minister-Counselor, Research & Innovation, European Union Delegation
14:15 p.m.-14:30 p.m. General Information on Joint Programming Initiatives
Jacky Wood, Acting Executive Director, JPI Oceans
14:30 p.m.-15:45 p.m. Panel Sessions
Moderator: Anne Bowser, Director of Innovation in the Science and Technology Innovation Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Panel 1: Agriculture and Food Security
Caroline Lesser, Head of International Cooperation and Stakeholder Relations, FACCE-JPI Secretariat, INRA
Otto Gonzalez, Director of International Programs, USDA-NIFA
Panel 2: Antimicrobial Resistance
Patriq Fagerstedt, Senior Research Officer, JPI AMR Secretariat, Swedish Research Council
Dennis Dixon, Chief, Bacteriology and Mycology Branch, NIAID, NIH
Panel 3: Oceans, Marine, and Climate
Jacky Wood, Acting Executive Director, JPI Oceans
Rick Murray, Division Director of Ocean Sciences, National Science Foundation
Terry Schaefer, International Activities Office, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Jonathan White, President/CEO, Consortium for Ocean Leadership
15:45 p.m.-16:00 p.m. Break
16:00 p.m.-17:15 p.m. Panel Sessions
Moderator: Anne Bowser, Director of Innovation in the Science and Technology Innovation Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Panel 4: Water Challenges
Dominique Darmendrail, Coordinator, JPI Water, The French National Research Agency (ANR)
Venkat Lakshmi, Program Manager, Division of Earth Sciences/Hydrology Program, NSF
Panel 5: Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life
Jolien Wenink, Coordinator, JPI HDHL, the Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development, Netherlands
USA Speaker TBA
Panel 6: Climate Challenge
Frank McGovern, Chair, JPI Climate, EPA, Ireland
Jack Kaye, Associate Director for Research, Earth Science Division, Science Mission Directorate, NASA
17:15 p.m.-17:30 p.m. Closing Remarks
Jesse Szeto, Director, NCURA Global, BILAT USA 4.0 Co-coordinator
17:30 p.m.-19:00 p.m. Networking Reception