The EL-CSID project receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No 693799.
The EL-CSID project receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No 693799.
European Leadership in Cultural, Science and Innovation Diplomacy (EL-CSID)
Luk Van Langenhove
EL-CSID Scientific Coordinator
1 December
About EL-CSID
• Acronym EL-CSID
• Horizon 2020
• €2.4 million grant amount
• Three-year duration
• Consortium of 9 partners
• Coordinated at the IES
The EL-CSID project receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No 693799.
Research Context
• Increasing role played by Cultural and Science Diplomacy in EU external relations
• Important role of Innovation in how state and non-state actors interact today
• But: EU CSD strategy yet to be fully articulated based on
understanding of direction of travel of cultural, science and
innovation diplomacy in evolving global context
Objectives
• Codify and articulate the relevance of cultural, science and innovation diplomacy for EU external relations as part of systemic and strategic approach
• Identify how the EU and its MS can collectively and individually develop an institutional and strategic policy environment
conducive of extra-regional cultural and science diplomacy
The EL-CSID project receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No 693799.
Aims
• Deepen scholarly understanding of diplomacy as an abiding, but evolving institution
• Strengthen EU policy towards the use of culture,
science and innovation in its wider diplomacy
Work plan
WP No WP Title WP Leader &
Participants WP1 Europe and European Praxis in Cultural and Science Diplomacy in
Comparative Perspective VUB
WP2 Science for Diplomacy versus Diplomacy for Science: The Tension between
Innovation Policy and Sovereignty WZB & JIIP
WP3 Cultural and Science Diplomacy: The Transnational and Collaborative
Dynamic UoW & NU, NUS
WP4 EU Cultural and Science Cooperation: From the Outside Looking In
EMUNI & CEDS WP5 Exploring the Effectiveness of EU’s Promotion of Regional and Inter-regional
processes in the South through Science, Cultural and Economic Diplomacy UNU-CRIS & VUB
WP6 Leveraging Diplomatic Capacity VUB
WP7 Management and Dissemination VUB supported
by all partners
The EL-CSID project receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No 693799.
Science Diplomacy & the EU
• Science diplomacy regarded as an increasingly important element of the EU’s foreign policy
• EC (DG RTD) and EEAS working towards the
development of a common approach to this external
dimension of science and innovation policies
Science Diplomacy & DG RTD
• Commissioner Moedas’ driving position
• Commitment to foster the development of a EU science diplomacy
• “science diplomacy to play a leading role in our global outreach for its uniting power” (Washington, June 2015)
• Science diplomacy as a torch that can “light the way, where other kinds of politics and diplomacy have failed”
(Washington, June 2015)
The EL-CSID project receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No 693799.
Towards a EU Science Diplomacy strategy?
• “Shared Vision, Common Action: A Stronger Europe”
(29 June 2016)
• EU Global Strategy for Foreign and Security Policy, presented by HR Mogherini in June 2016
• No significant reference to science diplomacy as an element of
the EU global strategy
Global Science Diplomacy
The EL-CSID project receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No 693799.
