June 6, 2011

An increasing number of regional, national and international initiatives addressing Euro-Africa S&T cooperation in ICT have been developed in the last few years. Several Concertation Meetings have been already organised in the framework of the EuroAfriCa-ICT Initiative in Europe and in Africa to facilitate closer interaction and the development of synergies between this and other related initiatives.

The next EuroAfrica-ICT Concertation Meeting will be held on June 6, 2011, at the Auditorium of the CSIR Campus (Building 43 D) in Pretoria, South Africa.

Due to room capacity constraints seats will be limited! Register today!

The meeting tentative agenda is available below.

• 8:00	Registrations and welcome of participants

• 9:00	Opening session and welcome addresses

• Laurens Cloete, Acting Executive Director, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Council, Meraka Institute, South Africa

• 9:15	Setting the scene - Presentation of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) Chaired by Segopotso Moshapo (TBC), Researcher, SAP/Meraka Unit for Technology Development and FP7/ICT National Contact Point, South Africa

• 9:20	Tshepang Mosiea, Project Manager, Meraka Institute of CSIR, South Africa

• EuroAfrica-ICT FP7 Priorities Study

• 10:40

  Anwar Vahed, Meraka Institute of CSIR, South Africa

• EO2HEAVEN / CLUVA

• 11:00

  Karen Calteaux (TBC), Meraka Institute of CSIR, South Africa

• HLT, FP7 Project

• 11:20

  Segopotso Moshapo (TBC), Researcher, SAP/Meraka Unit for Technology Development and FP7/ICT National Contact Point, South Africa, South Africa

• Upcoming Call 8 for ICT Work Programme 2011 – 2012

• 11:40

  Coffee and Tea Break

• 12:10

  Group Discussions Chaired by Speakers TBA

• Group 1: EuroAfrica-ICT Research priorities, facilitated by Tshepang Mosiea, Project Manager, Meraka Institute of CSIR, South Africa

• Group 2: CSIR Meraka Institute FP7 Strategy and South African Industry Participation, facilitated by Barend Taute, Meraka Institute of CSIR, South Africa

• Group 3: Topic TBD, facilitated by Segopotso Moshapo (TBC)

• 13:30

  Networking buffet lunch

• 14:30

  Report from Group DIscussions

• 15:00

  Closing Session and Concluding Remarks Chaired by Hina Patel, Strategic Research Manager, Meraka Institute of CSIR, South Africa

• 15:30

  End of the Concertation Meeting