Science

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Science Technology for prosperity The Arab
Science and Technology Foundation (ASTF)by
Dr. Samir HamrouniDirector of Research
Development
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What has ASTF Done?

• Networking ST Community
• Biennial symposium (SRO1- 4),
• Database e-PR program,
• Networking Website,
• Iraqi ST community
• Collaborative Research
• Virtual Research Centers
• Solar Water Desalination Project
• Fund Innovative RD
• 1st pan-Arab merit-based Research Grant program,
• ASTF- IFS (Stockholm) on Young Scientist Fund
  program.
• Investment in Technology
• Bi-annual Investing in Technology Forum,

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What has ASTF Done?

• Networking ST Community
• Establishing 5 Networks to Promote Science
  Scientists.
• Organized 37 Scientific Events.
• Co-Organized 28 Scientific Events.
• Events conducted in 11 Arab Countries involving
  scientists from around the globe.
• Collaborative Research
• Virtual RC on Solar Water Desalination 11.2 M
  with Libyan fund.

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What has ASTF Done?

• Fund Innovative RD
• 828 Proposals Received.
• 250 International reviewers participated from 30
  countries in Asia, Europe, North and South
  America and North Africa.
• 107 Projects Funded.
• Topics of Funded Projects Material Science,
  Water, Energy, Biotechnology, Information
  Communication Technology, Food Sciences, Marine
  Aquatic, Health, Agriculture Animal Sciences,
  Environment, Electrical Electronic, Mechanics
  Construction, Meteorology and Remote Sensing,
  Chemical Industries Petrochemicals, Drugs
  Medicines, Intelligent Systems Robotics,
  Radiation Safely.
• 3.7 million Total fund.
• 504 beneficiaries (researchers and staff) from 14
  Arab Countries.

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What has ASTF Done?

• Investment in Technology
• Network of 500 Arab technopreneurs and investors.
• 40 Startups supported.
• 22 Received Independent Funding.
• 4 Investing in Technology Forums with more than
  400 participants from more than 200
  organizations.
• 3 regional Awards Competitions Program.
• Working on Establishing 1 st Arab Seed VC Fund.

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• Quo vadis, Science Technology
• in Arab World?
• Towards a values-based knowledge society

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• THE ARAB SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM
• IZDIHAR
• (Prosperity)

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Objectives

• To solve IZDIHAR is conceived to help to solve
  problems and to answer to society needs and to
  the major socio-economic challenges facing the
  Arab region.
• To integrate This first pan-Arab program helps
  to integrate all the capacities of the Arab
  science and technology system and to integrate
  science and technology in Arab economy.
• To create knowledge to build the value-based
  knowledge society in the Arab world

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Towards a Values based knowledge society in The
Arab World-Arab Science And Technology Program
(5X51) IZDIHAR (prosperity)
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To solve problems and to answer to market and society needs for sustainable development and employment creation by the implementation of trans-national and multidisciplinary collaborative scientific research and technological development To maximize their impact by combining technological, industrial, social and cultural aspects.
HAYAT (Life)
Agriculture food and nutrition
Health
Biotechnology
MA'LUMA (Information)
IC Technologies
Application and integration of technologies
BEE'A (Environment)
Environment technologies
Energy
Sustainable development
MUJTAMA (Society)
  Decision Making
Economic integration
  Good governance
Education
Trends and changes in society  
Citizenship
Values and knowledge  
NUMUW (Development)
Nanotechnologies
New materials
Production technologies
TO INTEGRATE all the elements of the Arab Science and Technology system
SHABAKA (Network) For research networking and researchers' mobility.
IBDA (Innovation) To transform knowledge into products and services.
MULKIYA (Proprietorship) For technology transfer and the management of intellectual property and patents.
ISTITHMAR (Investment) To create the suitable environment to promote investment in technology.
SHARAAKA (Partnership) To support research in SMEs and entrepreneurship.
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Thematic Areas

• HAYAT (Life)
• Its the programme of life sciences and
  technologies. It includes three thematic
  programmes
• Agriculture, food nutrition To face the
  growing demand for safer, healthier and higher
  quality food and for sustainable use and
  production of renewable bio-resources. To meet
  the growing demands for safer, healthier and
  higher quality food and for sustainable use and
  production of renewable bio-resources. Research
  will also focus on the role of nutrition in
  promoting and sustaining health.
• Health To improve the competitiveness of Arab
  health-related industries and business by
  transforming basic discoveries in clinical
  applications, developing new therapies,
  diagnostic tools and technologies.
• - Biotechnology taking into account
  post-genomic research, to enable real progress at
  Arab level in medicine (data generation,
  standardisation, acquisition and analysis) and
  improve the quality of food (control food-related
  risk)

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Thematic Areas

• MALUMA (Information)

• This is the area of Information and Communication
  Technologies. It Comprises two thematic
  programmes
• Technologies to stimulate the development in
  Arab countries of both hardware and software
  technologies in order to increase the
  competitiveness of Arab industries
• Application and integration of technologies to
  make ICT meet societal challenges and allow Arab
  citizens the possibility of benefiting fully from
  these technologies.

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Thematic Areas

• NUMUW (Development)
• This program aims to promote competitive and
  sustainable growth of Arab industry. Industrys
  role will not only be to identify areas of
  collaboration but also to bring together and
  integrate projects. NUMUW includes three
  thematic programmes
• Nanotechnologies to achieve a critical mass of
  Arab capacities (form public research to
  companies) to develop and exploit this field.
• New materials to generate innovative (new and
  improved) materials and their technologies for
  production and transformation
• Production technologies and processes to
  integrate the new generated results from
  nanotechnologies and new materials in various
  fields (industrial, agricultural, medical,
  desalination of water, etc.).

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Thematic Areas

• BEEA (Environment)
• The program is intended to strengthen the
  scientific and technological capacities needed
  and to coordinate a pan-Arab approach for a
  sustainable management of the environment and its
  resources. The thematic programmes are three
• Environment To focus on environmental
  technologies to provide economic and efficient
  solutions to local specific needs and to
  strengthen Arab position in this technologies
  market.
• Energy To contribute to cleaner and more
  sustainable energy systems (including renewable)
  and economic and efficient energy for a
  competitive Arab region.
• Sustainable Development to focus on sustainable
  management and quality of water and sustainable
  management of Arab' land and marine resources.

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Thematic Areas

• MUJTAMA (Society)-1-

• The program is established to support the fact
  that the Arab region has witnessed the need for
  reform/transition (the cost of non reform is
  extremely high) in the economic and social
  spheres.
• - Decision-making Encourage the establishment of
  advisory groups and think-tanks regarding the
  main operational areas facing problems which
  impede social and economic development. The Arab
  world lacks reference documents (reports)
  associated with the social development and
  economic growth in strategic areas.
• - Economic Integration Analyse some negative
  aspects of Arab economies (lack of regional
  integration, fragmentation of the markets,
  fragility of the financial and monetary sector,
  widespread weakness of the sector of services,
  etc.).
• - Good governance Explore and support the
  development of good governance forms to encourage
  societal change in areas such as Arab
  knowledge-based society, regional integration and
  effective policy making process.

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Thematic Areas

• MUJTAMA (Society)-2-

• - Education Analyse the role of education in
  labour market changes and the relationship
  between education and employment and
  school-to-work transition. Research will also
  analyse the capacity of education and training to
  prepare individuals over their lifetime to a
  changing environment.
• - Trends and changes in society Taking into
  account Arab regional diversities, to analyse the
  profound structural and social changes and to
  provide knowledge on the interactions between
  societal trends, changes in family structures,
  life chances and cultural patterns and value
  systems.
• - Citizenship Provide innovative and integrated
  analyses on changing concepts and practices of
  citizenship. Research will focus on the study of
  social movements, citizens initiatives and
  gender to promote citizens participation in the
  policy making.
• - Values and knowledge Analyse the influence of
  the various components of cultural, educational
  and socio-economic models on the development of
  values to formulate transitions strategies
  towards a values-based knowledge society.

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Towards a Values based knowledge society in The
Arab World-Arab Science And Technology Program
(5X51) IZDIHAR (prosperity)
To solve problems and to answer to market and society needs for sustainable development and employment creation by the implementation of trans-national and multidisciplinary collaborative scientific research and technological development To maximize their impact by combining technological, industrial, social and cultural aspects.
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MUJTAMA (Society)
  Decision Making
Economic integration
  Good governance
Education
Trends and changes in society  
Citizenship
Values and knowledge  
BEE'A (Environment)
Environment technologies
Energy
Sustainable development
NUMUW (Development)
Nanotechnologies
New materials
Production technologies
HAYAT (Life)
Agriculture food and nutrition
Health
Biotechnology
MA'LUMA (Information)
IC Technologies
Application and integration of technologies
TO INTEGRATE all the elements of the Arab Science and Technology system
SHABAKA (Network) For research networking and researchers' mobility.
IBDA (Innovation) To transform knowledge into products and services.
MULKIYA (Proprietorship) For technology transfer and the management of intellectual property and patents.
ISTITHMAR (Investment) To create the suitable environment to promote investment in technology.
SHARAAKA (Partnership) To support research in SMEs and entrepreneurship.
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All the activities included in this chapter aim
to integrate all the capacities of the Arab
science and technology system and to integrate
science and technology in Arab economy.
Horizontal Activities
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Horizontal Activities

• SHABAKA (Network)

• Arab science and technology observatory To
  elaborate Science and Technology indicators and
  database, to support Science and Technology
  foresight and both to analyse current situation
  and to identify long term trends and thus to
  guide decision making.
• Networks To integrate the research capacities of
  participants and to strengthen scientific and
  technological excellence on a particular topic.
• Researchers mobility and training To develop
  and transfer research competencies and knowledge
  (from outside to inside and inside to inside) to
  help to the consolidation and widening of
  researchers' career prospects, and the promotion
  of excellence in the Arab ST system.
• Women researchers To involve women more actively
  in the Arab ST System by disseminating
  information, training actions, networking
  activities, monitoring progress (a set of gender
  indicators), campaigns and awareness-raising
  initiatives.
• Young researchers To help and provide training,
  mobility and career development opportunities to
  young scientists.
• Science and society To give Science and
  Technology a higher profile in the media and
  education, to centre ST activities around
  society needs and to strengthen the ethical basis
  of these activities.

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Horizontal Activities

• IBDA (Innovation)
• Technology transfer To improve the economic and
  social impact of research activities by ensuring
  the better dissemination of results and to
  support cooperation programmes between
  organisations from academia and industry, in
  particular SMEs.
• Innovation To set up the basis for an Arab
  innovation system by promoting a legal framework,
  networking capacities and promoting
  trans-national exchange of experience and the set
  up of technology businesses in the region.

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Horizontal Activities

• MULKIYA (Proprietorship)
• Intellectual property To offer on-line
  information, training, consultation and support
  on protection rules and intellectual property and
  to collaborate in the long-term project for the
  creation of the Arab Patents office.

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Horizontal Activities ASTF Investing In
Technology Initiative (ITI)

• Networking
• Arab Technopreneurs Network
• Arab Technopreneurs Portal
• Investing In Technology Forum

• Recognition Awareness
• Regional Business Plan Competitions
• Regional Recognition Awards
• Top 25
• TV Program (Successful Arab Technopreneurs)

• Funding
• Angel Investors Group
• VC Fund
• Matchmaking Strategic Partnership Linkage

• Capacity Building
• Global Startup Program
• Introductory Workshops
• Mentoring Program

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Horizontal Activities

• SHARAAKA (Partnership)
• Industry-academia partnership To support
  cooperation between public research centres and
  SMEs through joint research partnership.
• SMEs participation To encourage SMEs
  participation. A predetermined percentage of the
  whole program (Izdihar) budget relating to the
  five thematic areas will be allocated to SMEs.
• Entrepreneurship To provide a wide array of
  services to Arab Technology entrepreneurs, which
  includes assistance in developing business plans,
  assistance in patents and Intellectual Property,
  assistance in funding and assistance in
  technology commercializing.

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Strengthening Arab Science through partnership
benefits all of us.Building strong Scientific
Program improves the Arab Community and increases
our mutual understanding.

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