The Korean scientific cooperation network with the European Research Area (ERA) was a network of European ministries, funding organisations, S&T policy promoting, and Korea, represented by the Korean partner organisation, the Korea Foundation for International Cooperation of Science and Technology (KICOS).
KORANET was an ERA-NET scheme funded in FP7 aimed at improving the coherence and co-ordination of national research programmes, and facilitating the mutual opening of national R&D (Research & Development) programmes between the Member States of the EU and South Korea. The core of the project was the development of a new co-ordinated S&T (Science & Technology) funding scheme where the national programme owners agree to launch a pilot joint EU-Korean programme within a given scientific field or discipline.
The core objectives of the KORANET were:
- To improve the information exchange between Korean and European research communities in order to better understand one anothers S&T landscapes and policies
- To exchange best practices as regards the planning and implementation of S&T policies
- To coordinate bilateral approaches of EU MS/AC and Korea
- To specify areas of cooperation in priority research fields
- To establish an appropriate instrumental framework for strategic cooperation
- To learn from ongoing (thematic) ERA-NETs(good practice)
- To develop a one-stop-agency for Korean S&T interests
- To develop and implement a full concept for a joint funding scheme in a thematic area (still to be defined)
- To increase Korean participation in the EU Research Framework Programme
As work package leader in this project the ZSI was responsible for the planning, design and implementation of a joint foresight-based framework to identify and elaborate the future core areas of S&T and competence network co-operation between the EU and South Korea. Based on the results of this foresight exercise a joint action plan and funding strategy, complementary to existing national and bilateral funding activities, has been developed. Furthermore, a EU-Korea Summer School was held in Vienna. Main results of the project are available in the publication: Korea and Europe. Meeting through Science.
우리는 비엔나, 한국 유럽 협력 오스트리아 활성화에 위치한 사회 과학 연구 기관입니다.
