In December 2008, the WINDS Latin America project has completed two years of work, devoted to deepen strategic R&D cooperation between Europe and Latin America. WINDS-LA focused its actions on Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico
by building a multinational and multistakeholder community of relevant R&D European and Latin American actors (researchers, policy makers, users) and by identifying common needs, research issues and opportunities for cooperative R&D between EU and Latin America to set the basis for the formulation of a common strategy for future research.
The project activities:
WINDS-LA identified key R&D issues on which to focus EU-LA cooperation, and key actors that were involved in EU-LA collaboration in the field
WINDS-LA guaranteed that information on European R&D was promoted to a large number of research, policy and practice actors in LA, therefore facilitating dialogue among policy makers, companies, civil society and the research community
WINDS-LA organized three research conferences in LA, two research-policy seminars in Europe and a final Conference in Brussels to enhance the existing dialogue and cooperation with LA stakeholders, uplifting European R&D relevance
WINDS-LA established a sustainable open consultation process that led to a consensus-based roadmap for future R&D in an LA-EU collaboration perspective
Following the work done by WINDS-LA in the period 2007-2008, the PRO-IDEAL project (its acronym stands for “Promotion of an ICT Dialogue between Europe and America Latina”) was recently launched with the aim of promoting the ICT programme of the European Commission, within its Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), in Argentina, Brazil (Sao Paulo southwards), Chile and Uruguay.
