EU-U.S. Science Technology and Innovation (STI) Cooperation Forum on ´NEW FRONTIERS IN SCIENCE DIPLOMACY- Opportunities for U.S.-EU Cooperation´

The promotion of scientific cooperation is an essential element of foreign policy. Research and innovation cooperation between countries can help solve common problems, address grand societal challenges and build constructive international partnerships. Many countries integrate science as an important part into their international agendas utilizing the term ‘Science Diplomacy’ to describe international cooperation in research and innovation cooperation, even in times of crisis. Although experts may use a variety of definitions for science diplomacy, the term now has become an established approach that encompasses a variety of formal and informal technical, research-based, academic or engineering exchanges.

The EU-funded project BILAT USA 2.0 will organize a conference on Science Diplomacy on 28 September in the Johns Hopkins University in Washington D.C. This conference will gather major EU and US stakeholders as well as active researchers and innovators to answer, among others, the following key questions:

• How to advance “science in diplomacy”, “diplomacy for science” and “science for diplomacy”
• Where can the EU and the US learn from each other’s approaches with regard to Science Diplomacy? Where are potentials for cooperation?
• How similar / different are the motivations and approaches of different countries / regions - here in particular the EU and US - in science diplomacy? What are some of the key differences?

Participation is free of charge. A registration prior to the event is requested under the following link: https://www2.ffg.at/anmeldungen/new-frontiers-in-science-diplomacy/

The agenda is available here.

If you have questions, please contact:

Miriam H. Cunningham
Program Coordinator/Office Manager
Center for Transatlantic Relations
SAIS-JHU
1717 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20036
mcunningham@jhu.edu
@CTR_SAIS