Leitat hosted WAITRO Cooperation for Development Online Workshop

In the first part of the session, Juliana Ramírez Zuluaga from Leitat presented the concept and global ecosystems of Development Cooperation and their action mechanisms and the ecosystem composed by the key players on the sector.. Then, attendees explored some of the funding schemes in regions such as Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, and Africa, where it is possible to leverage WAITRO’s global network #GlobalInnovationFamily.

WAITRO members in Latin America also shared their approach toward international public procurement and reference cases of multi-country collaboration on projects under the Development Cooperation framework. Maria Eugenia Suarez, represented the Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Industrial in Argentina (INTI) from Argentina, shared lessons learned from the project “ADELANTE 2”, a case of Triangular Cooperation, and Martha Liliana Marin, on behalf of the Centro de Ciencia y Tecnología de Antioquia (CTA) from Colombia, shared a case of joint formulation and execution of project called “CAPINBIO” under a partnership between Latin American and European organizations.

To dive deeper into the subject, we’ve also prepared the following resources used during the session and that can serve as a tool or source for related inquiries

• WAITRO DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION CAPACITY BUILDING: here

• REFERENCE CASE-ADELANTE PROJECT: here

• REFERENCE CASE-CAPINBIO PROJECT: here

Video recoding of the worksho can be accessed from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNur7fKPq8E