Cooperation in research and innovation
Article 31
In the framework of the association, cooperation in the field of research and innovation may cover science, energy, climate change, disaster resilience, natural resources including raw materials, and sustainable use of living resources. It may also cover technology, including ICT, with the aim of contributing to the OCTs’ sustainable development and to promoting the OCTs’ role as regional hubs and centres of excellence as well as their industrial competitiveness. In particular, cooperation may concern: (a) dialogue, coordination and the creation of synergies between OCTs and Union policies and initiatives with regard to science, technology and innovation; (b) policy and institutional building within OCTs and concerted actions at local, national or regional level, with a view to developing science, technology and innovation activities and their application; (c) cooperation between legal entities from the OCTs, the Union, the Member States and third countries; (d) participation of individual researchers, research bodies and legal entities from OCTs in the European Framework Programmes for Research and Innovation and the Programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and small and medium size enterprises (COSME), also linking them to already supported activities of those programmes with the aim to ensure complementarity of activities; and (e) training, international mobility and exchange of researchers from OCTs.