The RI-VIS Latin America - Europe Symposium will be held between Tuesday, June 15th and Thursday, June 17th 2021, as a virtual event. This event is organised in collaboration with the EU-LAC ResInfra project.
It is our pleasure to welcome you to the Latin America-Europe Symposium on Research Infrastructures.
International cooperation in science and technology is an important part of addressing major global issues like climate change, infectious disease, food security, and natural disasters. Research infrastructures (RIs) are organisations that enable scientists to use specific facilities, resources, and expertise to enable and accelerate scientific achievements, overcome boundaries, train highly skilled specialists, and promote sustainable research. Fostering RI partnerships across borders has the potential to improve the efficiency and quality of research to tackle the many challenges faced by society today.
The virtual three-day symposium brings together delegates from Latin American and European research infrastructures (RIs), science policy organisations and research institutions to discuss opportunities and challenges for RI cooperations between Latin America and Europe.
We hope to raise awareness of individual RIs, to identify measures to mitigate current challenges of bi-regional cooperations between RIs, to initiate new and strengthening existing collaborations, and to initiate networks in a sustainable way so that all stakeholders benefit.
We invite all researchers who have an interest in learning more about research infrastructures and the research opportunities they offer to scientists. The participation in this event is for free, but registration is required.
This symposium is organised as part of the RI-VIS project, a Horizon 2020-funded project to increase the visibility and raise awareness of European RIs to new communities beyond Europe, and the EU-LAC ResInfra project, a Horizon 2020-funded project which strives towards a new EU-LAC partnership in Research Infrastructures.
We are looking forward to e-meeting you soon,
Latin America-Europe Symposium on Research Infrastructures organisers
Registration for this event is now open until 14th June 2021.
Ahead of the symposium, the RI-VIS project has published the White Paper entitled "Recommendations towards cooperation between Latin American and European research infrastructures". This White Paper collates the insights of experts from Latin American RIs, European RIs, and policymakers, highlighting examples of Latin American-European RI collaboration, best practices for successful collaboration, perceived challenges and bottlenecks, and from these presents a series of actionable recommendations.
Adelino Canario
Director of CCMAR, Portugal
Alberto Majo
Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Uruguay
Andres Triana
Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT), Mexico
Andrés López Lara
Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo, ANID, Chile
Bahne Stechmann
EU-OPENSCREEN ERIC, Berlin, Germany
Chris Wood
National Laboratory for Advanced Microscopy, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico
Federico Torres-Carballo
Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología y Telecomunicaciones (MICITT), Costa Rica
Fernando Amestoy
Presidente del Polo Cientifico y Tecnológico de Pando, Uruguay
Francesco Florindi
BBMRI ERIC, Graz, Austria
Guy de Capdeville
Director of Research and Development at Embrapa, Brazil
Inmaculada Figueroa
Ministry of Science & innovation, Spain; and Vice-Chair of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI)
Johannes Klumpers
European Commission Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, Head of the Unit ‘Research and Industrial Infrastructures’
Jose Roque
Director of Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), Campinas, Brazil
Juan Miguel González-Aranda
LifeWatch ERIC
Kleber Gomes Franchini
Director of Brazilian Biosciences National Laboratory (LNBio), Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), Campinas, Brazil
Lelio Fellows Filho
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Brazil
Luis Eliécer
Executive Director of RedCLARA
Manoel Barral Neto
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rafael Mayo Garcia
Centro de Investigaciones Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Spain
Ricardo González T.
Laboratorio de Encuestas y Análisis Social [LEAS], Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile
Richard Garratt
University of Sao Paolo (USP) and CeBEM
Sorin Hermon
Chair of the IPERION HS DIGILAB Working Group and director of STARLAB at the Cyprus Institute (CyI)
Susan Daenke
Instruct-ERIC; and Coordinator of the RI-VIS project, Oxford, UK
The programme for this event is displayed below and can be found on the Whova event page.