You are cordially invited to attenda presentation on:

Thursday, November 20th, 2014at 9:00am – 10:30am

with

Dr. James P. GaviganMinister Counselor, Head of the Research and Innovation Section,

Delegation of the European Union to the USA

and

Dr. Franck PoupeauCo-Director of the UMI iGLOBES CNRS/UA,

Senior Researcher, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS - France)

at

Marriott University Park880 East Second St., Canyons Room

Tucson, AZ

This event is free but registration is necessaryPlease register here by November 19th, 2014

Agenda

8:30am – 9:00pm Coffee

9:00am – 9:05am Welcome Felicia N. Martinez, Executive Director, Colorado European Union Center of Excellence (CEUCE)

9:05am –9:55am Overview of Horizon 2020 Dr. James P. Gavigan, Minister Counselor, Head of the Research and Innovation Section, Delegation of the European Union to the USA

9:55am – 10:10am Testimonial on the Benefits of Transatlantic CooperationThe experience of Dr. Franck Poupeau as a partner in the EU-funded project: SWAN - Sustainable Water ActioN: Building research link between EU and US Dr. Frank Poupeau, Co-Director of the UMI iGLOBES CNRS1/University of Arizona; Senior Researcher of the CNRS (France)

10:10am –10:30am Discussion, Q/A with the audience

Horizon 2020 is the European Union's main instrument for funding research and innovation activities from 2014 to 2020. It focuses on three overarching priorities – excellent science, industrial leadership and societal challenges.

Recognizing the increasing importance of internationalization in how knowledge is produced and used as well as the global nature of the many societal challenges requiring research and innovation solutions, Horizon 2020 is open to participants from anywhere in the world.

During the presentation the main elements of Horizon 2020 will be described in terms of content, types of activities funded, forms of participation, the rules which apply, etc. The different types of international cooperation which Horizon 2020 can accommodate – at individual researcher, collaborative project or program level will also be described.

For more information about Horizon: http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/

Co-organized by the Delegation of the European Union to the USA, the University of Arizona, and CEUCE

1 The French National Centre for Scientific Research (in French: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS)

Speaker Biographies

James has been an official of the European Commission since 1990. Since September 2012, he has been Minister-Counsellor for research and innovation and Head of the Science, Technology and Education section at the European Union’s Delegation to the United States of America in Washington DC. He focuses on facilitating scientific cooperation between the EU and the U.S. at both government-agency and stakeholder levels. Current priorities include marine/ Arctic sciences, materials, health and transport research as well as innovation-related aspects of other EU-U.S. areas of policy dialogue - e.g. the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). He oversees

cooperation between EU Member-State ScienceCounsellors in the U.S. and undertakes outreach activities on initiatives such as Horizon 2020.From 2006 to 2012, James was Head of the European Research Area (ERA) Policy Unit. In this role, he oversaw expansion of a partnership approach to EU research policy between the European Commission, EU Member States and research stakeholders. This included the launching of five major initiatives in 2008 on joint programming, research careers, research infrastructures, knowledge circulation and international cooperation, and the adoption in 2012 of a policy strategy “A reinforced ERA partnership for excellence and growth” aimed at completing ERA.From 2003 to 2006, he worked on the European Commission’s Research Investment Action Plan and the research-policy aspects of the EU's Lisbon Strategy, including as acting Head of Unit in 2006. From 1995 to 2003 he worked on science and technology policy foresight at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre Institute for Prospective Technological Studies in Seville, Spain. From 1990 to 1995, he was Scientific Project Officer for advanced materials R&D (magnetic materials, superconductors, synthetic diamond) and for R&D support schemes to small and medium-sized firms. From 1985 to 1990, he worked as a research physicist mainly in France and Ireland but also in Italy, the UK and the Netherlands, on the intrinsic magnetic properties of rare earth-transition metal borides and magnetic thin films. James has a BAMod (1985) and a PhD (1988) in Physics from Trinity College Dublin and a Master's in Public Administration (2003) from the University of Warwick. He speaks English, French, Spanish and some Irish and Italian. He was born on 19 Dec 1963 in the Yukon and has dual Irish and Canadian citizenship. He is married to Josefa Imedio Luengo and they have four adult sons – Daran, Alberto, Tadhg and Carlos.

Franck Poupeau is a CNRS researcher and co-director of the UMI Globes. His work has developed at the intersection of the sociology of urban segregation and the political analysis of social movements. He studied the struggles for access to natural resources and utility providers, in the context of expanding areas of poverty in Andean cities. This research upon inequality of access to water in urban peripheries constituted the first step of a larger multidisciplinary project focusing on the conditions of political mobilization in urban areas, which articulated variables usually considered separately by the social science disciplines. He's the coordinator of the European SWAN project (Sustainable Water Action) and of several other UMI grants related to water and socio-ecological systems (BLUEGRASS, OHMI Pima County). He's the editor of the n°1 ranking journal in French sociology, Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, created by Pierre Bourdieu in 1975.