2012 EU/Member States-India Joint Stakeholders' Conference

The Indo-European Partnership for Research and Innovation

We had the great chance to attend the “Indo-European Research and Innovation Partnership”. This conference was organized by the European Commission in Brussels (May 30^th, June 1^st). As described in the invitation note, “the main objective of the forthcoming conference was to mobilise Indian and European  stakeholders and define a shared EU/Member States-India strategic agenda by identifying common challenges, priority areas and instruments for future action.” 

We were invited to present the “HTech4Dev” initiative as part of the parallel session dedicated to health issues (including new pharmaceutical drugs, medical technologies and instrumentation) co-chaired by Mr. Kari Komulainen, Director, International Network, Tekes (Finland) and Dr. Selvamurthy, Chief Controller, Research and Development, Defence Research and Development Organisation (India). Several crucial issues were raised to assess the transfer to LMICs of heath technologies developed in Indian who developed state of the art technologies in this area. This could help those countries to solve health disparities among their population: contacts have been established to hopefully set up new collaborations.

The conference presentations have been posted at:
 http://ec.europa.eu/research/iscp/index.cfm?pg=india-eu-conference-2012