Life sciences and technologies for developing countries (STD III)

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SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION IN THE 90' s
UNION EUROPEA - AMERICA LATINA
COOPERACIÓN CIENTIFICA EN LOS AÑOS 90
Vol I: Life Sciences and Technologies
for Developing Countries (STD III) Published by the EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Research Directorate-General
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PRINTED ON WHITE CHLORINE-FREE PAPER Preface
European Union - Latin America Scientific Cooperation in the 90's
It gives me great satisfaction to present this overview of the results of almost a decade
of continuous support from the European Community to cooperation between our
scientists and their Latin American counterparts. In addition, this publication provides
researchers with a valuable source of information on the projects supported, their scope,
objectives, and results, and gives full details of the teams involved and how to contact
them.
The reader will find in the pages that follow the practical results of the Community's
policy on scientific cooperation with the Latin American region. As in the case of other
developing regions, Community policy has sought to harmonise a contribution to the
region's socio-economic progress with our own scientific interests.
Implementation of this policy has allowed Community scientists to gain access to
localities displaying particular environmental, agricultural, ecological and public health
characteristics, and to undertake their research in these areas. As a counterbalance, we
believe that Latin American researchers have derived great benefit from interaction with
their European peers. Given their own scientific quality, this sharing of experience
places local teams in a privileged position from which to contribute to finding science-
based solutions to problems faced by their communities.
It is precisely with the aim of tackling these problems effectively that, after extensive
dialogue with the scientific authorities and communities of the region, the Commission
selected areas on which to target cooperation. Agriculture and agroindustry, health and
environmental issues were considered the most important priorities, as the reader will be
able to see in the body of this publication. However, in order to capitalize on the human
potential available, research in other relevant fields such as earth sciences, materials and
different branches of engineering was also supported when resources permitted.
We firmly believe that our cooperation has led to the creation of a permanent network
of scientific interaction, embracing a vast number of Latin American and European
scientists, and which is even broader and more far-reaching than the sum of the results
of the projects presented here.
The importance of Latin America for the European Community has recently been
brought to the forefront by the Summit of Heads of State of Latin America and the
Caribbean, and the European Union, which took place last June in Rio de Janeiro. The
dialogue that has taken place over the years in different fora has been reinforced by the
Heads of State of the two regions with their decision to establish a Working Group of
Representatives. This institutionalised Working Group should provide a renewed
impetus to our cooperation: whether this will be achieved through the enlargement of
the specific programme for cooperation, by further facilitating access to the specific
thematic programmes of the framework programmes, by the conclusion of cooperation
agreements, or by the combination of some of these options, is still an open question.
The Working Group of Representatives will be the forum for reflection and advice on
the most appropriate way to develop the full potential of our cooperation in the future.
The Rio Summit underscored the will of both regions to deepen that cooperation, and
the European Commission will apply its best efforts and full capacity to the successful
achievement of that aim.
Brussels, October 1999
J. Gabolde
Director
HI Introduction
During the 1990s, the European Community pursued scientific cooperation with Latin
America through a series of different programmes.
For the period 1990-1994 two complementary schemes were in operation. First, the
Life Sciences and Technologies for Developing Countries (STDIII) programme,
which formed part of the EC's Third Framework Programme for Research and
Technological Development aimed at mobilizing EC and Developing Country
scientists to work on pressing problems of all developing countries, including Latin
American countries, in the areas of human health and agriculture. Second, the
International Scientific Cooperation (ISC) scheme, which aimed at developing long-
lasting working relationships between EC and Latin American scientists, covered a
wider range of subjects and set priorities by mutual agreement with the national
authorities of individual countries. Through these two schemes a wide-ranging
development effort was complemented by a country-specific initiative. The ISC
scheme also granted fellowships for Latin American scientists to do research in
European laboratories and develop contacts with the European scientific community.
In 1994, a new scheme combining these ideas was introduced. This was the INCO-DC
programme (Scientific and Technological Cooperation with Developing Countries),
which formed part of the EC's Fourth RTD Framework Programme and which ran
until 1998. It focussed specifically on three sectors of widespread importance
(sustainable management of renewable natural resources, sustainable improvement of
agricultural and agroindustrial production, and health) and used a regional basis, in
this case the region being Latin America, on which to set research priorities and build
projects.
The newest programme, which started in 1999 and runs for a further four years, is the
Research for Development (INCO-DEV) component of the Fifth RTD Framework
Programme. This programme targets research of a problem-orientated nature,
maintains the regional approach and subject-matter coverage of the earlier INCO-DC
programme but adds to it a section on policy research for sustainable development.
This volume contains summaries of joint research projects involving partners in Latin
America. It covers all STDIII and INCO-DC projects, and ISC projects which started
in the 1992-1994 period. A table summarizing the number of activities carried out and
EC financial contribution is given below.
Jaak Sinnaeve
Head of Unit XII-E-4
Research for Development
IV EC-Latin America S + Τ cooperation activities
Number of EC financial Number of
institutional contribution activities
partners (million ECU)
Joint Research projects
96 388* 31.76 STD III (1990-1994)
ISC (1990-1994) 363 933 57.88
INCO-DC (1994-1998) 121 818* 58.50
Fellowships (1990-1994) 319 638 10.44
TOTAL 899 2777 158.58
* Includes some partners from non-Latin American developing countries Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Table of contents
Volume 1 - Life Sciences and Technologies for Developing Countries
(STD III) 1991-1994 - TS3 contracts
Page no.
Agriculture 1
Health 111
Volume 2 - International Scientific Co-operation (ISC) 1992-1994 -
CI1 contracts
Page no.
Agricultural Sciences
Biologicals 63
Chemical Sciences 115
Earth Sciences 159
Environmental Sciences 20
Health and Biomedical Sciences 271
Materials Sciences 36
Physical, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences 413
Volume 3 - International Scientific and Technical Co-operation with
Developing Countries (INCO-DC) 1994-1998 - IC18 contracts
Page no.
Health 1
Natural Resources and Agriculture 133
This Volume:
Index of Projects by Subjects 219
Index of Institutes by Countries 227
General Index of Projects by Scientists 241
VI STD III
Agriculture