Kick-off of the Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership in Rome

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Kick-off of the Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership in Rome

Kick-off of the Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership in Rome

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Rome, Italy or online

25 Jan 2023 | 9:00-17:00

English

Description

The 60 partner institutions of the Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership will meet in Rome on 25 January for the kick off meeting of the Partnership. The event is organised back to back with meeting of the Steering Committee and General Assembly on 23 and 24 January. The kick-off meeting will present the Partnership and it’s thematic foci and regional sea basin approach. Synergies with other Partnerships and the Mission Restore our Seas and Ocean will be discussed with key representatives of the European Commission. The event is a first occasion for engagement and for looking iahead towards delivering impact to meet the EU policy objectives of the Green Deal, the digital dransformation and Covid recovery.

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Programme

Wednesday 25 January 2023

09:00	Registration and welcome coffee
09:30	Moderator: Elisabetta Balzi, EC-DG RTD Welcome: Anna Maria Bernini, Minister of University and Research Bjørnar Skjæran, Norwegian Minister of Fisheries and Ocean Polic Mariya Gabriel, EU Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth
09:50	Opening Giuseppe Soriero, President, Accademia di Belle Arti
09:55	Setting the scene John Bell, Director, European Commission (DG RTD)
10:15	Vision, Objectives and Architecture of the Partnership Margherita Cappelletto, Italian Ministry of Universities and Research (MUR)
10:30	Investing in Sustainable Blue Economy: towards the first SBEP co funded call for proposals From Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda to Intervention Areas, Benjamin Kuerten, Juelich Research Centre (FZJ) SBEP first call for proposals, Carolina Torres and Renato Pires, Regional Fund for Science and Technology of the Azores (FRCT) Guided by the theory of change and the need of monitoring impact, Sylvain Pasquier, French National Research Agency (ANR) and Abraham Trujillo Quintela, Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT)
11:00	Q&A
12:10	Connectivity/1: Leveraging different funding streams and mobilizing research infrastructures for ocean observation and prediction Viorel Vulturescu, Romanian Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitalization (MCID) (Chair) in dialogue with Magda De Carli, EU Commission (DG RTD) on alignment with structural funds and Ariane Blum, Coordinator Water4All (W4A) on mobilizing monitoring system
12:30	Q&A
12:35	Connectivity/2: Synergies with other Partnerships and the Mission Restore our Seas and Waters Maurice Heral, French National Research Agency (ANR) (Chair) in dialogue with Alexander Grablowitz, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and Partnership Knowledge Hub Co-President and Kestutis Sadauskas, Deputy Director-General, EU Commission (DG MARE) and Mission Manager, Mission “Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030”. The panel will explore operational opportunities for collaborating.
12:55	Statement by the Mission Ocean Lighthouse CSA Coordinators and Q&A
13:05	Connectivity/3: Sea-basins and Atlantic Ocean cooperation from co-design to impact Wendy Bonne, EU Commission (DG RTD) (Chair) in dialogue with Kathrine Angell-Hansen, Research Council of Norway (RCN), and SBEP sea-basins nodes from MT, GR, TR, BU, IE, PT, BE, NL, EE, PL on outcomes of SBEP regional workshops and best practices sharing, targeting the 5-helix approach.
13:35	Statement by the Mission Ocean Lighthouse CSA Coordinators and Q&A
13:45	Connectivity /4: Broadening the perspective by engaging all disciplines Willem de Moor, Joint Programming Initiative Oceans (JPIO) (Chair) in dialogue with Gabi Lombardo, European Alliance for Social Science and Humanities (EASHH) and Siri Granum Carson, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
14:05	Final Q&A
14:10	Wrap-up and conclusions Raffaele Liberali, Italian Ministry of Universities and Research (MUR)