The document outlines the Africa-EU partnership aimed at addressing global challenges through scientific and technological cooperation, particularly focusing on climate change and food security. It details the Joint Africa-EU Strategy's action plans, priority areas of cooperation, and proposed funding mechanisms for research projects to enhance collaboration between African and European states. Furthermore, it highlights the establishment of a roadmap in food and nutrition security and sustainable agriculture, alongside the significance of leadership in funding and implementing these initiatives.

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Building Bi-regional Partnerships for Global Challenges
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Towards a Tangible Legacy
Workshop of WP2: Africa-Europe STI cooperation on the Climate Change global challenge
Africa-EU STI Policy Dialogue Support
(Plenary session, Tuesday, 8th September 2015, 9:00 – 10:30)
7th – 8th September 2015 | Bergen, Norway
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2. 1Building Bi-regional Partnerships for Global Challenges
Joint Africa-Europe Strategy (JAES)
includes
• commitment to addressing jointly common global
challenges.
• an EU-Africa partnership on scientific and technical
research and innovation
• acknowledging the important role of STI in addressing
global challenges.
HLPD
Africa-EU High-Level Policy Dialogue in STI
oversees the partnership

3. 2Building Bi-regional Partnerships for Global Challenges
www.africa-eu-partnership.org
HLPD Summits
Addis Ababa (2015)
Brussels (2014)
Tripoli (2010)
Lisbon (2007)
Cairo (2000)

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EU Troika
3 MS
Building Bi-regional Partnerships for Global Challenges
AMCOST
3 MS
EC
HLPD-
Bureau
Joint Africa-Europe Strategy (JAES)
College-to-College
(annual meetings, last in
2015 - Brussels)
Joint Task Force
(annual meetings)
Council of Europe
Secretariate
AUC
AMCOST = African Ministerial Commission on Science and Technology (Specialised Technical Committee)
AUC = African Union Commission
EC = European Union Commission
HLPD = High Level Policy Dialogue (81 Member States - formerly: SOM - Senior Officials Meeting
ECAUC
ECAUC
HLPD
ECAUC
Algeria | Burkina
Faso | Burundi |
South Africa
France | Germany
| Portugal | UK
The First
Action Plan
(2008-2010)
The Second
Action Plan
(2011-2013)
The Third
Action Plan
‘Joint Africa-EU
Strategy:
Roadmap 2014-2017’
Africa-EU Partnership
Africa-EU Summits with ministerial meeting
(every three years, last in 2014 - Brussels,
next in Addis Ababa, March 2016)
Expert level meetings
(last expert working group was on Food and
Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture -
FNSSA for a roadmap)
Other continuous dialogues:
• EU-Africa Business Forums
• Africa-EU Civil Society Forum
• Africa-Europe Youth leaders’ Summits
• Meetings between the European Parliament and Pan-African Parliament
• Meetings of EU and Africa economic and social stakeholders network

5. 4Building Bi-regional Partnerships for Global Challenges
Roadmap 2014-2017, Brussels
Focus on 5 priority areas of cooperation:
1. Peace and security;
2. Democracy, good governance and human rights;
3. Human development;
4. Sustainable and inclusive development and growth and continental integration;
5. Global and emerging issues.
Key area for cooperation: Climate change and environment
First Action Plan (2008-2010), Lisbon and the Second Action Plan (2011-2013), Tripoli
had focused on 8 priority areas of cooperation:
1. Peace and security;
2. Democratic governance and human rights;
3. Regional economic integration, trade and infrastructure;
4. Millennium Development Goals;
5. Climate change;
6. Energy;
7. Migration, mobility and employment;
8. Science, information society and space.
Joint Africa-Europe Strategy (JAES) Action Plans

6. HLPD Bureau Proposed meeting dates in 2015
Month Date Time ( at
location)
Meeting Type Location
March 5 10:30 Face to face
Back-to-back with the third meeting of the EU-Africa High
Level Expert Group on 5-6 March
London
April 7 15:00 VC
April 27 Face to face
Back-to-back with the final meeting of the EU-Africa High Level
Expert Group on 27 April
Brussels
June 23 15:00 VC
September 15 15:00 VC
October 19 morning Face to face/VDC
Back-to-back with roundtable on EU-Africa cooperation on STI
supporting FNSSA at the MILAN EXPO on 18 October
Milan
November tbc tbc Face to face (tbc)
Back-to-back with Conference in the European Parliament on
EU-Developing countries cooperation on STI in framework on
European Year for Development 2015
Brussels
December tbc VC

7. 6Building Bi-regional Partnerships for Global Challenges
Roadmap on Food and Nutrition Security
and Sustainable Agriculture (FNSSA)
• HLPD’s focus for STI partnership is currently on FNSSA,
reflecting common priorities.
• HLPD Bureau appointed 10 experts from Africa & EU to
develop priorities for EU-Africa FNSSA partnership.
• Experts delivered roadmap to HLPD Bureau in April 2015.
• HLPD Bureau currently elaborating roadmap for delivery to
March 2016 HLPD meeting in Addis Ababa.

8. 7Building Bi-regional Partnerships for Global Challenges
FNSSA roadmap – priority selection criteria
1. Relevance to African and European priorities for
sustainable agriculture and food and nutritional
security,
2. Expected impact of research and likelihood of
uptake,
3. Capacity for joint research,
4. Scalability,
5. Complementarity and value for money.

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Roadmap on FNSSA
– priority topics
Building Bi-regional Partnerships for Global Challenges
1. Sustainable intensification.
2. Agriculture and food systems for nutrition.
3. Development and improvement of
agricultural markets and trade.
4. Cross-cutting issues.

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Sustainable intensification:
suggested research components
Building Bi-regional Partnerships for Global Challenges
• Ecological intensification approaches which optimise the use of ecosystem
services to produce food at lowest costs and environmental impact.
• Identification and breeding of animals and crops to maintain/increase
productivity and resilience under constraining conditions.
• Animal, fish and crop health for optimising resource efficiency, minimising
production losses and avoiding spread of diseases.
• Appropriate use of soil, water, land and inputs management practices to
deliver greatest benefits at lowest costs and environmental impact.
• Advanced marine spatial planning, marine ecosystems, aquaculture
technologies and environmentally and economically sustainable systems.
• Organizational innovations, facilitating uptake of innovations across farms
and rural communities, through new business models and farmer
information systems.

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Agriculture & food systems for nutrition :
suggested research components
Building Bi-regional Partnerships for Global Challenges
• Improved food value chains
• Improve the nutritional value of crops and animal
products, through advances in breeding and
biotechnological innovation
• Understanding consumer behaviour with respect
to healthy diets and nutrition and the role of
education and incentive systems
• Public private partnerships to improve the
nutritional quality of foods

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Development and improvement
of Agricultural markets and trade :
suggested research components
Building Bi-regional Partnerships for Global Challenges
• Effective models and methodologies for the development
of surveillance, monitoring and diagnostic systems for
sanitary, phytosanitary and other food safety purposes.
• Science for innovations for bio-economy strategies.
• Stabilizing food and input price fluctuations and improving
resilience of food systems.
• Global Value chains and market power: linking rural
communities to markets, access to credit, impact of
urbanization on trade links…

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Cross-cutting issues :
suggested research components
Building Bi-regional Partnerships for Global Challenges
• A framework for improved coordination and added
value between the diversity of European- and African-
supported research projects on agriculture and food
security.
• Supporting innovation processes.
• Strengthening capacities for collaboration among
African and European R&I communities.
• Understanding the social and cultural contexts of
production systems impacting FNSSA.

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Implementation?
Building Bi-regional Partnerships for Global Challenges
• The Africa-EU STI partnership has no dedicated funding instrument.
• Much work nominally placed under the partnership to date has been
supported directly or indirectly by EU instruments, by international
programmes, by EU MS programmes, and to a lesser extent by African
MS programmes notably via a joint funding arrangement.
• Key to implementation of the roadmap research priorities is
identifying agencies / schemes / programmes / funds whose
interests align with roadmap priorities.
• Partnership needs to draw on a diversity of collaborative
arrangements & funding mechanisms to engage also non-traditional
partners and build multidisciplinary platforms.
• HLPD Bureau and its collaborators are elaborating a roadmap chapter
on implementation but above all the partnership needs visionary
and dedicated leadership.

15. 14Building Bi-regional Partnerships for Global Challenges
II
New joint funded
call for research projects
Two funding areas:
1. Food and Nutrition Security
2. Resilience

16. 15Building Bi-regional Partnerships for Global Challenges
• Pilote programme for research
cooperation with national funding
parties from Africa and Europe,
• for inspiring memberstates of Africa and
Europe to contribute as partners to the
implementation of the Joint Africa-EU
Strategy (JAES)

17. 16Building Bi-regional Partnerships for Global Challenges
• 20 funding parties from Africa and Europe
(1st joint call in 2013)
Austria, Belgium, Burkina Faso, Côte D‘Ivoire, Egypt,
Germany, Finland, France, Kenya, Norway, Portugal,
South Africa, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Turkey
• ~ 11 Mio. € total fund (incl. 2 Mill. € contribution of
the EC)
• 106 viable proposals for research projects
• 17 projects have been funded
• Three funding areas
1. Renewable Energies
2. Interfacing Challenges
3. New Ideas

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