Canada-Poland Cooperation in S&T

1. Canada-Poland Cooperation in S&T Mona Ip Canadian Embassy, Warsaw

2. Canada’s Innovation Strategy Targets (by 2010) • in top 5 nations for R&D performance • double federal R&D investments • rank among leaders for share of public sector sales from innovations • raise venture capital per capita investments to US-levels

3. Why build Canada-Europe partnerships? • NOT Research funding • Network of contacts • Leveraged extent of research • Access to people, facilities, knowledge and results • Economic impact

4. Mechanisms for the Canada-Europe S&T Relationship • Extensive, informal collaboration between researchers • Flow of people, knowledge, technologies, services and investment • Formal bilateral relationship at institution and government levels • Multilateral S&T Cooperation Agreement

5. Canada’s FP5 Participation • EESD 10 • Growth 13 • Quality of life 14 • Human Potential 6 • IST 27 • Nuclear 4 TOTAL 74

6. Canada-Poland S&T opportunities • Poland is also eligible to cooperate with Canada under the European FP6 programme • Building links with Canadian S&T will assist Poland in leveraging its extensive science expertise, particularly in application and commercialization of technologies

7. Shared Canada-Poland S&T Priorities • Biotechnology • Informatics and telecommunication • Microelectronics and nano-technologies • New materials technologies • Alternative and renewable sources of energy

8. Check our web-site for more information!! http://www.infoexport.gc.ca/science/

9. CONTACT US Canadian Embassy in Warsaw Tel: (48-22) 584-3360 / Fax: (48-22) 584-3195 E-mail: wsaw-td@dfait-maeci.gc.ca OR E. Paola de Rose Science & Technology Counsellor Mission of Canada to the European Union Paola.de-rose@dfait-maeci.gc.ca