Sao Paulo, Brazil – July 3, 2008

With the support of the European Commission, the WINDS-Latin American Project (www.winds-la.eu) organized the “Strengthening EU-Latin America links in ICT research: towards a joint Roadmap” Seminar. The event was held in São Paulo, Brazil on the 3rd of July 2008 at the Escola Politécnica, Universidade de São Paulo.

The objective of the Seminar was to gather European and Latin American experts, research network representatives and policy makers working on ICT research to discuss cooperation strategies between the two regions and to validate the ideas of the joint EU-LA Roadmap on ICT research and of the Euro-Latin American Multistakeholder Committee.
More than 40 participants from Europe, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico joined the event and actively participated in the debate on policy recommendations on interregional cooperation on ICT. Those proposals and ideas are going to be the basis of next WNDS-LA policy event in Brussels, in October 2008, where the EU-LA Roadmap on ICT research will be introduced to the European Commission and to key European actors in the field of UCT research.

List of Attendees
Presentations

9.00 Opening

• Prof. Dr. José Roberto Cardoso, Escola Politécnica, USP
• Paulo Lopes, EC Delegation in Brazil

• The Argentinean perspective: a growing presence in ICT-FP7, Aldo Fabris, ABEST, and Rosa Wachenchauzer, ICT Contact Point, Argentina
• The Brazilian perspective: the future of the B-Bice platform, Paulo Egler, B-Bice
• The Mexican perspective: how to increase structural support to ICT research, Neil Hernandez, ITESM Monterrey and Mexican ICT National Contact Point
• The FP7 perspective, state of the art of LA participation in FP7-ICT, Paulo Lopes, EC Delegation in Brazil
• The Brussels liaison office for EU-LA S&T cooperation, Christiane Daem, LAC-ACCESS

• The WINDS-LA project: working to improve long-term cooperation, Fabio Nascimbeni, MENON, WINDS coordinator
• First results of the DELPHI survey on future directions for cooperation in the field, Susana Finquelievich, Fundacion Gestion y Desarrollo
• The WINDS EU-LA Roadmap cooperation on ICT research, Pancho Tolchinsky, Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya