11th meeting of the “Monitoring Committee for
Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation in RTD” (MOCO)

Vienna, June 28 – June 30, 2006

The Monitoring Committee for Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation in RTD (MOCO) was set up by the European Council within the framework of the "Barcelona Process" (Barcelona Conference, 27-28 November 1995) to promote cooperation in the field of research and technological development and to support the sustained development of the region.

The MOCO has thus played an important role in determining the priority areas of EU-Mediterranean RTD cooperation especially within the European Framework Programmes for Research (FP 4, FP 5 and FP6). Synergies with other instruments of biregional cooperation have also been explored by the MOCO (e.g. with MEDA) inter alia with a view to the Euro-Mediterranean free trade zone planned for 2010.

A further important objective of the MOCO's work is the exchange of information on bi- and multilateral Euro-Mediterranean RTD activities in order to coordinate these various exercises as well as to avoid duplications.

The first elements for building up and boosting RTD co-operation on a regional basis were drawn up at the conference "European Research and the Mediterranean" held in Sophia-Antipolis, France on 21-22 March 1995 under the French Presidency of the European Union. This Ministerial conference, involving the Member States of the European Union, the European Commission and the Mediterranean Partner Countries (MPCs), supported and confirmed the role that RTD could make in promoting the sustainable socio-economic development of the Region. As a result of that meeting and in accordance with the position taken by European research ministers on 10 April 1995, the Monitoring Committee was set up. It met for the first time in Barcelona on 29 November 1995, immediately after the Euro-Mediterranean Conference (27-28 November 1998).

It has subsequently met in Italy, Cyprus, the Netherlands, Malta, Germany, twice in Tunisia, in Sweden and Egypt and will hold its 11th meeting in Vienna, Austria.

The MOCO is attributed the task of making recommendations for the joint implementation of RTD policy priorities agreed at ministerial level and plays a central role as regards monitoring and stimulating Euro-Mediterranean cooperation in RTD as laid out in the "Guidelines for the functioning of the Monitoring Committee" (adopted 1996 in Nicosia, Cyprus).

The members of the MOCO are high level officials representing the ministries concerned with cooperation in the field of RTD of the Member States of the European Union and the Mediterranean Partner Countries as well as the European Commission. The representative of the EU Member State holding the Presidency of the European Union chairs the MOCO. It usually meets once a year.

• Agenda PDF (pdf, 29 KB) DOC (doc, 138 KB)
• Documents:
  Revised Guidelines for the functioning of the Monitoring Committee (for decision)
  [Download: DOC (broken link)]
  Structure of the 7th Framework Programme for Research
  [Download: PDF (broken link)]
  General Approach by the Council to the 7th Framework Programme for Research (for information only)
  [Download: DOC (broken link)]
  European Neighbourhood Policy - Strategy Paper
  [Download: PDF (broken link)]
  The Euro-Mediterranean Area of Higher Education and Research
  (Catania Declaration, 2006)
  [Download: DOC (broken link)]
  EUMEDConnect
  [Download: PPT (broken link)]
  The Euro-Mediterranean Initiative for Technology and Innovation
  [Download: DOC (broken link)]
  MedCLIVAR - Mediterranean Climate Variability and Predictability
  [Download: DOC (broken link)]
  Newsletter of the Climate Variability and Predictability Programme (CLIVAR)
  [Download: PDF (broken link)]
  INNFORMED:
  - INNFORMED (overview) [Download: DOC (broken link)]
  - INNFORMED (presentation) [Download: PPT (broken link)]
  - INNFORMED (documentation of work) [Download: DOC (broken link)]
• Registration form [Download: DOC (broken link)]
• hotel reservation
• Practical Information [Download: PDF (broken link)] [Download: DOC (broken link)]

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