EUREKA leads closer Europe-Canada R&I collaboration
Celtic-Plus, the EUREKA ICT cluster and industry-driven European research initiative, and Prompt, a Quebec-based industry-university R&D consortium, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen their collaboration in ICT-related research and innovation projects.
Both groups are key players in stimulating collaborative privately-publicly funded ICT projects in Europe and Canada and see the MoU as a basis for creating joint European-Canadian ICT projects.
The signatories, Jacques Magen and Jacques McNeill, agreed that this MoU provides compelling opportunities for both the Celtic-Plus and the Prompt research and innovation communities to perform additional collaborative research in new common projects.
Government officials from Canada, France and Sweden, as well as representatives from Ericsson and Thales, who are already involved in both Celtic-Plus and Prompt, have already announced their strong support for the co-operation, which is open to all EUREKA member countries.
The MoU was signed at the Celtic-Plus Proposers Day in Basel, Switzerland.
EUREKA is an intergovernmental organisation for market-driven industrial R&D and oversees Horizon 2020’s Eurostars 2 public-public partnership.
