ICT, SMEs and Innovation - the winning formula for EU-LA collaboration

AquiEuropa, the on-line journal of EU News in the Spanish speaking world, published an interview with Margaretha Mazura, Secretary General of EMF about future EU-LAC (Latin American and Caribbean)  relations. With a GDP growth rate 3 to 6 times higher than Europe in 2011, Latin America becomes a powerful player in the global economy. Common challenges such as climate change, the environment as well as societal challenges are important on both sides of the Atlantic. To overcome these, EU and LA should join forces, also in view of the up-coming Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. New technologies, the facilitator for all, paired with the innovative force of SMEs may be the winning formula. The  EU-LAC Summit in Santiago in January 2013 will discuss these issues. 

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Bilateral Business Summits

ProMexico, the Mexican Government's investment and trade promotion trust organises its bilateral business summits for companies from Central and Eastern Europe interested in the Mexican market. The next main event for the German speaking world takes place in Cologne on 3-5 June 2012. Companies interested to participate can register at : Bilateral Business Summit registration.

A final event will take place on 27-28 September in León, Guanajuato, Mexico.

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More information about the Bilateral Business Summit Series.

The Santiago Summit facing the present global challenges, 24 April, Brussels

Organized by IRELAC and the Belgo Chilean chamber of commerce, the seminar "The Santiago Summit facing the present global challenges" will take place the 24 April in Brussels.

The purpose of the event is to analyse the challenges of bi-regional relations, to evaluate the observed results with respect to the expected targets and to identify the contribution of these bi-regional summits to the global governance.
 

 

 The main theme chosen for the seventh EU-LAC Summit is "alliance for a sustainable development: promoting investment in social and environmental value added". IRELAC tool the initiative to gather experts and stakeholders for the preparation of the Santiago Summit in order to analyse and discuss the development in both regions as well as in their relationsips. The value added of the Summit diplomacy will be assessed, discussing the obtained results and the challenges that Santiago Summit could meet in the perspective of strengthening the common interests of both regional blocks. It is of crucial interest for bi-regional relationships that this Summit meets the expectations of both policy makers and civil societies by making more tangible to public opinions the purpose of building a strategic partnership and demonstrating the useful realizations of the Summit diplomacy

For registration, contact: irelac@ichec.be or  genevieve.francois@chileanchamber.be
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