REPORT

DRAGON-STAR PLUS ´CLIMATE CHANGE

EXPERT WORKSHOP´

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REPORT DRAGON-STAR Plus ´Climate

Change Expert Workshop

CONTENTS

Executive summary page 2

Welcoming and Opening session page 4

The future of EU-China STI collaboration in

climate research page 4

Promoting the dialogue between European JPIs

and Chinese STI Programmes page 5

Sino-European STI collaboration perspectives in

climate research page 6

Climate Change Roundtable discussion on common

priorities and next joint steps page 8

Recommendations page 10

Participants, Agenda, and Experts´ Biographies page 13

DRAGON-

STAR PLUS

The project has received

funding from the

European Union’s

Horizon 2020 research,

and Innovation program

under grant Agreement

No 645775

The project provides

support services to

European and Chinese

researchers for

enhancing the bilateral

cooperation, and

provides a platform for

bilateral policy

discussions

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Executive summary

On May 15th, 2017 about thirty experts and policy makers in climate change research from

Europe and China met in the Zijingang campus of Zhejiang University in Hangzhou for the

´Climate Change Expert Workshop´ which was organised by the DRAGON-STAR Plus project.

The event was focusing on foresight scenarios, in order to develop a shared understanding on

common short-term EU-China challenges as well as to make long term recommendations on

future EU-China Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) cooperation in climate change.

One important mission of the ´Climate Change Expert Workshop´ was to promote the dialogue

between Chinese STI policy makers and European Joint Programming Initiatives active in

climate change issues, i.e. JPI WATER, JPI Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change

(FACCE), JPI OCEAN, JPI CLIMATE and JPI Urban Europe.

The main difference between China and Europe regarding climate change breakthroughs was discussed initially. Whereas China is more focusing on specific technology areas, Europe has a more general approach in climate change research. Sino-European research clusters, industry and policy-makers should increase the exchange of first-hand information allowing for a more strategic approach for policy making. Main suggestion for policy-makers was to open the EU-China Co-Funding Mechanism for Research and Innovation Cooperation between the EU and MoST for joint STI projects out of H2020. As to European funding organisations, they offer transparent and efficient evaluation

procedures, and are experienced in reviewing inter- and multidisciplinary research proposals.

Cooperation with a network of European partners can give a Sino-European STI initiative the

needed visibility and volume.

China has a huge young talent pool with many excellent research groups in the top universities

and research institutes. It was discussed that China and Europe were in urgent need of new

knowledge and STI collaborations in order to jointly be able to face major grand societal,

economic and environmental challenges. Main learning and message for funding agencies

was that bilateral funding instruments proved successful when used in multilateral settings. In

the future this option should be explored more systematically.

Two experts from Zhejiang University gave a very good insight into some of their climate change research topics. Main outcome for research actors was to build and further strengthen joint research teams and clusters with special attention to the following potential joint collaboration topics in climate change:

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• Air quality improvement

• Algae research for CO2 capture and pharmaceuticals production

• Antibiotic resistance and soil concentrations of antibiotics

• Biotechnology

• Coal conversion

• Energy efficiency improvement

• Environmental management

• Food security

• Renewable energies

The DRAGON-STAR Plus ´Climate Change Expert Workshop´ was a first and well received

step for fostering the dialogue between a number of European Joint Programming initiatives

(JPIs) and a relevant Chinese STI actors active in climate change. It supported to share mutual

understanding on common EU-China challenges and on future EU-China STI cooperation

opportunities.

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Welcoming and Opening session

The opening words were given by Jianxin Liu, vice dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, Life

and Environment sciences at Zhejiang University, by Laurent Bochereau, head of the

Science, Technology and Environment Section at the Delegation of the EU to China, and

by Epaminondas Christofilopoulos, the DRAGON-STAR Plus coordinator at

PRAXI/FORTH.

They agreed that climate change as global environmental and societal challenge needs joint

actions and that circular economy is an important driver. China is global exporter of green

technologies having a very strong production of renewable energy. Besides environmental

management could also play an important role in EU-China joint collaboration in climate

change in the future.

The future of EU-China STI collaboration in climate research

In the past DRAGON-STAR Plus identified

in its foresight analysis four scenarios for

China 2025 as well as sixteen trends and

drivers transforming the innovation

landscape.

The latest research was part of the on-

going foresight work including participatory

workshops, trend scanning, patent analysis,

and more, and will ultimately produce

scenarios on China´s innovation future and

highlight bilateral cooperation opportunities.

The five megatrends towards 2030 which were identified are (1) Changing Demographics, (2)

Globalisation 2.0, (3) Disruptive Technologies, (4) Climate Change, and (5) Scarcity of

Resources.

By 2030 China will be the leading country in terms of ´green tech´ exports. Cooperation

potential between China and Europe by 2030 will be among others, environmental

management, the efficient use of renewable energy sources, and smart energy systems of the

future.

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Promoting the dialogue between European JPIs and Chinese STI Programmes

Maurice Héral, chair of the Joint

Programming Initiative (JPI) WATER, Vice-

Chair of the Governing Board of JPI

Agriculture, Food Security and Climate

Change (FACCE), Member of the governing

board of JPI OCEAN and JPI CLIMATE,

introduced shortly the international

ambitions, commitments for further exchange

and cooperation opportunities of the four

JPIs. Currently open calls as well as future

activities were introduced underlining clearly

that Chinese partners are highly welcome to participate in joint STI activities.

Manfred Horvat, senior advisor for international STI cooperation of JPI Urban Europe

presented the JPI as initiative of ministries, funding agencies and research performing

organisations of 22 EU member states. JPI UE has developed a commonly agreed Strategic

Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) and implements a portfolio of activities: joint R&I

funding, capacity building and developing strategic partnerships and networks. With regard the

outreach to China JPI UE follows two objectives: building Sino-European community of R&I

stakeholders in the area for urbanisation and developing a long-term partnership for

implementing joint calls for proposals. He emphasised the importance of mutual trust, giving

the example of the trust building activities supported by DRAGON-STAR Plus in 2015 and

2016. JPI Urban Europe (JPI UE) developed close relations with the Ministry of Science and

Technology (MoST), National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), and the China

Science and Technology Cooperation Exchange Centre (CSTEC). The outcome was that in

May 2017 JPI UE and NSFC signed joint a Joint Statement on ´Sustainable urbanisation in the

context of economic transformation and climate change´. In December 2017 the launch of the

first joint call is planned.

Berry J. Bonenkamp, China coordinator at the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research outlined his experience in bilateral and multilateral research collaboration with China, i.e. CAS, CASS, MoST, and NSFC.

He outlined that European funding organisations had transparent and efficient evaluation

procedures, and were experienced in reviewing inter- and multidisciplinary research proposals

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and that cooperation with a network of European partners gave a Sino-European S&T

initiative the necessary visibility and volume.

He also argued that China had a huge young talent pool, and there were many excellent

research groups at the top universities and research institutes. China and Europe were in

urgent need of new knowledge, science and innovation, to face major societal, economic and

environmental challenges, he said.

A well-thought strategy for EU-China science cooperation would be:

-Facilitating – Supporting researchers in Europe and China to work internationally and

remove barriers (e.g. joint calls, access to large international research infrastructures)

-Connecting – Stimulating and coordinating international cooperation (e.g. joint calls)

-Influencing – International and national developments in favour of science (influencing

European and global research policy, improving Sino-European funding opportunities)

Dai Le, project manager within the Division of European Affairs at the China Science and

Technology Exchange Centre, outlined the difference between China and Europe regarding

climate change breakthroughs. Whereas China was focusing on specific technology issues,

Europe had a more general approach in climate change research. She recommended more

joint task forces including researchers, industry and policy-makers in order to increase

exchange of first-hand information allowing for a more strategic approach for policy making.

Sino-European STI collaboration perspectives in climate research

Ichin Cheng, director of the Sustainable

Innovation Lab, mentioned the Flagship

Initiative ´A resource efficient Europe´ under

the Europe 2020 strategy supporting the shift

towards a resource-efficient, low-carbon

economy to achieve sustainable growth

providing a long-term framework for actions in

many policy areas. IT has a global impact on

researchers, stakeholders and policy-makers.

She outlined that policy makers have to

rethink and improve the socio-economic

system and new business strategies have to

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be applied in the future also with regards to circular economy.

She also argued that after the major industrial cycle of Information and Telecommunication we

were facing the beginning of the next wave of Sustainable Innovation for a Green Industrial

Revolution, understanding the limits to growth within a finite system and increasing created by

the current macro-economic and macro-industrial model.

Weixiang Wu, director of Institute of

Environment Pollution Control and

Treatment at Zhejiang University

introduced his research on returning

rice-straw derived biochar into soil might

be a promising method for mitigating

climate change.

Long-term research and field-scale

study with various field operations under

diverse climatic and geographical

conditions and assessing environmental

impacts were an ideal opportunity for

joint research collaboration, he pointed

out.

Tao Wang, associate professor at Zhejiang University in the State Key laboratory of Clean

Energy Utilization presented his research on the development of carbon capture and storage

technologies in China. He mentioned bilateral and multilateral collaborations between Zhejiang

University and the EU in his research field. For future joint STI collaboration he is highlighting

industrial CO2 capture from the coal power sector.

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Climate Change Roundtable discussion on common priorities and next joint steps

The roundtable discussion was involving Ichin Cheng, Dai Le, Tao Wang, Berry J. Bonenkamp, Manfred Horvat, and Maurice Héral.

The initial question was how to bring further the dialogue in climate change among policy

makers and experts. Berry J. Bonenkamp outlined that it took two years of trust building and

close exchange between JPI Urban Europe and NSFC to reach a common basis for concrete

joint STI activities. Policies and strategies needed time to be discussed and joint calls were

only one part, but also research networks needed to be built, according to him.

He added and agreed with Dai Le that bilateral instruments proved to be successful when put

into multilateral settings and contexts.

Manfred Horvat emphasized on the future need of applying the co-funding mechanism

(between the EU and MoST) for multilateral STI cooperation between the EU and China. He

also added that research communities needed support in specific areas. Finally he pointed at

the huge potential of the Joint Programming Initiatives (JPIs) working together and exchanging

information and experience in the area of climate change in order to increase the efficiency of

the dialogue in climate change.

The question arose whether the Strategic Research and Innovation Agendas (SRIAS) of the

JPIs match with China´s national priorities. Ichin Cheng explained that the One-Belt-One-

Road (OBOR) initiative connecting China to the world was a challenging opportunity and with

circular economy being pushed by Europe there could be a good match with the China

national agenda.

Manfred Horvat agreed that European and Chinese initiatives and programmes need to

strengthen mutual information und understanding in the future, allowing the identification of

common areas of interests in China and Europe as a basis for developing R&I cooperation. He

also added that the OBOR initiative which includes the Maritime Silk Road will offer joint

collaboration opportunities between China and Europe in the near future with high impact in

climate change and environmental issues.

Dai Le explained that the Chinese government was implementing different STI agendas which

needed to be taken into account for STI collaboration. She added that MoST was in general

open to consider the possibility to use the co-funding mechanism for joint STI activities instead

of setting up bilateral calls only. She added that task forces had been created after the

DRAGON-STAR Plus Sustainable Urbanization Workshop in Ningbo, held on 29 and 30

November 2016, in Transportation, Biotechnology, Industry 4.0 and Urbanization.

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Tao Wang added that air quality improvement, energy efficiency improvement as well as coal

conversion would be good potential collaboration areas for the EU and China. He argued that

technology policies were needed in addition. Ichin Cheng added that market driven innovation

as driving force could be an opportunity for establishing parallel research teams working

together and involving industry for adaptation.

Maurice Héral also suggested building research clusters in order to exchange protocols and

compare conditions and results. He added that antibiotic resistance and soil concentrations of

antibiotics as well as food security were important issues and crucial joint STI collaboration

areas. Ichin Cheng agreed that biotechnology was very relevant to climate change research.

Tao Wang added that algae research projects for reducing CO2 emissions could be a new

area for joint collaboration between European and Chinese researchers. Maurice Héral agreed

and added that algae research was also very relevant for producing new pharmaceuticals.

Berry J. Bonenkamp finally added to the discussion that EU funded projects although

producing good results seldom had long-term and sustainable impact, and that the future of

JPIs and ERA Nets would be to group and collaborate without EU financial contribution and

that there lied the challenge for EU-China STI collaboration.

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Recommendations for policy makers

- Networking and trust building

Joint STI activities and implementation of joint calls need lead time and regular exchange

before concrete actions can be effected. Networking activities between Chinese and European

major stakeholders and policy-makers on equal terms have proven successful. See the best

practice example of JPI Urban Europe and MoST.

- Clear messages and suggestions for joint STI collaboration

Suggestions for joint STI activities should be well prepared and clearly communicated.

Especially Chinese STI actors are pragmatic and need concrete and clear information and next

steps in order to be able to follow-up and set actions.

- EU-China Co-Funding Mechanism for Research and Innovation Cooperation The co-funding mechanism between the EU and MoST should be considered to be used in a wider sense, also for joint STI projects out of H2020.

- Long-term thinking and alignment of policies (One-Belt-One-Road initiative in China, Joint

Programming Initiatives in Europe)

Policies in China are long-term and seem to be more concrete than in Europe. The

coordination and alignment of JPIs within Europe and exploring suitable instruments for Sino-

European STI collaboration would make it possible to be more flexible to react and consider

also China´s OBOR initiative in a better way.

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Recommendations for funding agencies

-Trust building

Trust building missions and regular networking between funding agencies should be seen as

important issue on the agenda on both sides. Implementing joint STI activities and funding

mechanisms needs trust, mutual understanding and, hence, time.

-Timing

Negotiations and discussions on implementing concrete joint actions need to be timely and

have to fit both sides. Flexibility in reacting very quickly, on the one hand, or giving the process

enough ´quality time´, on the other hand, should be considered.

-To the point offers for collaboration

Collaboration between funding agencies can be complex, having to involve different experts

and players. Well elaborated collaboration offers with a clear structure and concrete next steps

can accelerate the process and make negotiations more understandable and straightforward.

-Support of specific joint research communities

Funding agencies have the possibility and the tools to support specific research communities.

An alignment between Chinese and European funding agencies could have a greater leverage

effect and foster research collaboration between research communities in specific strategically

important research areas of mutual interest.

- Bilateral instruments in multilateral settings

Bilateral instruments proved to be successful when put into multilateral settings and contexts.

The collaboration between European Joint Programming Initiatives and Chinese funding

agencies might benefit from this straightforward approach in the future.

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Recommendations for researchers

-Joint research communities, i.e. research networks/clusters/task forces/teams

Build new Sino-European research teams and strengthen existing research networks, bearing

in mind the following joint collaboration topics in climate change in the future:

• Air quality improvement

• Algae research for CO2 capture and pharmaceuticals production

• Antibiotic resistance and soil concentrations of antibiotics

• Biotechnology

• Coal conversion

• Energy efficiency improvement

• Environmental management

• Food security

• Renewable energies

-Shared research infrastructures

Existing research infrastructures in Europe and China should be opened more systematically

and shared in order to increase exchange of expertise and collaboration between Chinese and

European researchers and scientists.

-Give recommendations to policy-makers and funding agencies

Strong and interactive research clusters working internationally on climate change issues

should be strong enough so to be able to give recommendations to policy-makers and funding

agencies in their country and shape the future funding landscape and , hence, joint STI

collaboration fields.

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PARTICIPANTS

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AGENDA Date: May 15th, 2017 Location: Qizhen hotel (Zijingang campus of Zhejiang University) Qiushi meeting room, 3rd floor Hangzhou

Objectives and Expected Outcomes:

By bringing together experts and policy makers from China and Europe the ´Climate Change Expert

Workshop´ organised by DRAGON-STAR Plus intends to discuss foresight scenarios, develop a

shared understanding on common EU-China challenges, and make recommendations on EU-China

cooperation opportunities to address in the long term environmental pollution, the need for renewable

energies and climate change and its global environmental implications.

The ´Climate Change Expert Workshop´ will promote the dialogue between European JPIs active in

climate change issues, i.e. JPI WATER, JPI Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (FACCE),

JPI OCEAN and JPI CLIMATE and Chinese STI Programmes owners, funding agencies and policy

makers.

08.30 -

09.00

Registration DRAGON-STAR Plus ´Climate Change Expert Workshop´

09.00 -

09.20

1. Welcoming and Opening session

Moderator: Ms Elli Tzatzanis-Stepanovic | FFG, Austria

• Mr Jianxin Liu | Vice dean of Faculty of Agriculture, Life and Environment

sciences, Zhejiang University, China

• Mr Laurent Bochereau | Head of Science, Technology and Environment

Section, Delegation of the EU to China

• Mr Epaminondas Christofilopoulos | DRAGON-STAR Plus coordinator,

PRAXI/FORTH, Greece

9.20 -

10.00

2. The future of EU-China STI collaboration in climate research

Moderator: Ms Elli Tzatzanis-Stepanovic | FFG, Austria

• Mr Epaminondas Christofilopoulos | PRAXI/FORTH, Greece

• Mr Tomas Larsson | KAIROS Future Shanghai, China

10.00 -

11.15

3. Promoting the dialogue between European JPIs and Chinese STI Programmes

Moderator: Ms Elli Tzatzanis-Stepanovic | FFG, Austria

• Mr Maurice Héral | ANR, France

• Mr Manfred Horvat | Vienna University of Technology, Austria

• Mr Berry J. Bonenkamp | Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, The Netherlands

• Ms Dai Le| China Science and Technology Exchange Center, China

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11.15 -

11.45

Coffee/Tea Break

11.45 -

13.00

4. Sino-European

STI

collaboration

perspectives.

Renewable

energy and

circular

economy as

central links?

Moderator: Ms Odette Paramor | University of Nottingham Ningbo, China

• Ms Ichin Cheng | Sustainable Innovation Lab, UK

• Mr Lin Gao | Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

• Mr Weixiang Wu | Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

• Mr Tao Wang | Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

13.00 -

14.00

Lunch Break

14.00 -

15.15

5. Climate Change Roundtable discussion on common priorities and next joint steps

Moderator: Mr Ralf König | FFG, Austria

• Ms Ichin Cheng | Sustainable Innovation Lab, UK

• Mr Maurice Héral | ANR, France

• Mr Manfred Horvat | Vienna University of Technology, Austria

• Ms Dai Le| China Science and Technology Exchange Center, China

• Mr Tao Wang | Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

15.15 -

15.45

Coffee/Tea Break

15.45 -

16.00

6. Closing session

Moderator: Ms Elli Tzatzanis-Stepanovic | FFG, Austria

• Mr Epaminondas Christofilopoulos | PRAXI/FORTH, Greece

16.00 -

17.00

7. Networking • Bilateral meetings

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EXPERTS´ BIOGRAPHIES

Mr Jianxin Liu, Vice dean of Faculty of Agriculture, Life and Environment sciences (FALE), Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China Prof. Jianxin Liu is vice dean of Faculty of Agriculture, Life and Environment sciences(FALE), Zhejiang University, leader of institute of dairy science and director of National Engineering Laboratory for Feed Safety and Pollution Control. His research mainly focused on dairy nutrition and Feeding, especially in protein (amino acids) requirements, feed additives, protection of critical nutrients from rumen degradation by encapsulation techniques, and dietary effects on health of dairy cows and environmental friendly feeding strategies. Attention is paid to efficient use of feed resources available locally, and reduction of excretion of N and P into the environment to promote the sustainable dairy feeding system in China. Mr Laurent Bochereau, Delegation of the European Union in Beijing, China Since September 2014, Laurent Bochereau is responsible for the "Science, Technology and

Environment" Section at the Delegation of the European Union in Beijing. He gained a Laureate from

the Ecole Polytechnique and ENGREF in Paris, a Master's degree from the University of California and

a PhD from the University of Paris VI. After spending several years working as a research project

leader at IRSTEA, he served two years in the French Ministry for Research. He joined the European

Commission in 1995 where he worked several years as Assistant to the Director for Life Sciences and

then Head of Unit with responsibilities for agriculture, forestry, agro-industry and food safety research.

From 2007 to 2010, he was the Head of the "Science, Technology and Education" Section at the

Delegation of the European Union in Washington DC. From 2010 to 2014, he was Head of the

"International Cooperation Policy" Unit within the European Commission's Research and Innovation

Directorate General with responsibilities for developing the EU international strategy for international

cooperation in research and innovation and the international dimension of the Horizon 2020

programme.

Mr Epaminondas Christofilopoulos, DRAGON-STAR Plus coordinator, Head of International Cooperation in PRAXI Network, FORTH, Greece

Having a background in Physics, Environmental Studies and International Relations, Epaminondas has initially worked in the field of environment, while after moving to the PRAXI Network of the Foundation for Research and Technology, he has worked on the fields of technology transfer and research commercialization. Since 2004, he specifically focuses on international research cooperation, coordinating several projects around the globe (Eastern Europe, Caucasus, Central and East Asia, the Gulf peninsula, Central America) and delivering seminars in Europe and Overseas. Since 2010, Epaminondas is a founding member of the Greek Node of the UN Millennium Project, a worldwide network coordinating futures research and foresight studies.

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Mr Tomas Larsson, Director of ChinaLab at Kairos Future, Shanghai, China Tomas Larsson is the Director of ChinaLab at Kairos Future. He has directed several studies on China's innovation landscape, social change, consumer trends, and regional growth pattern. Tomas also specializes in quantitative methods for the analysis of large amounts of social data and has been responsible for the development of tools to extract consumer insight from social media. Tomas holds a M.Sc. in Nanoengineering and a M.A. in Asian Studies with a focus on China, a country where he studied and worked for four years Mr Maurice Héral, Head of Environment, Ecology and Biological Resources Department, Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), France

Chair of the Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) WATER, Vice-Chair of the Governing Board of JPI Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (FACCE), Member of the governing board of JPI OCEAN and JPI CLIMATE

Maurice Héral is Department Officer in ANR (French National Research Agency) in charge of Environment and Biological Resources since 2011 for national calls on biodiversity, agriculture, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries and impact of global changes. Water management, Eco-technology, and food processing are developed in partnership with private industry. He is very active to produce calls at the European level in the ERANETs representing French Research and Innovation Ministry through ANR on biodiversity, marine research, and sustainable agriculture in Marinera (Coordinator), Marifish, Biodiversa, Seas-Era, COFASP, SURPLUS, SUSAN, ERAGAZ. He actively participates in the JPI OCEANS as member of the Governing Board, he is chair of the JPI WATER and vice-chair of the Governing Board of JPI FACCE.

Mr Manfred Horvat, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Member of the Advisory Board of the Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) URBAN EUROPE

Manfred Horvat is independent expert and honorary professor at Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria. He is expert for national, European and international research and technology policies and programmes, responsible for the assessment and evaluation of research and technology programmes and institutions.

He is adjunct professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), at the

Department of Architecture and Planning, Trondheim, Norway. His main activities and responsibilities

are Chairman of the Management Board of the Horizon 2020 URBAN-EU-CHINA Innovation Platform

on Sustainable Urbanisation. He is responsible for analyses of Chinese and EU policy framework and

developing strategies for EU-China research and innovation cooperation in sustainable urbanisation.

He is Vice-Chairman of the Advisory Board.

Mr Berry J. Bonenkamp, Senior Policy Officer, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research

(NWO), The Netherlands

Since 2011, Berry Bonenkamp is Coordinator of the China and India cooperation at NWO, the national

research council of The Netherlands. He coordinates the bilateral Sino-Dutch research programmes,

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aimed at stimulating sustainable research collaboration between Dutch and Chinese research groups

by funding joint research projects, dialogue seminars and exchanges. The programmes range from

exchange visits and seminars, fundamental research (science-to-science) and PhD training, to science-

industry (public-private partnerships), applied and practice-oriented research. Furthermore, he is

responsible for the multilateral Sino-European research cooperation.

NWO has embarked on a joint strategic policy for research collaboration with China. NWO has several

Chinese partners: the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the Chinese Academy of

Sciences (CAS), the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China (MoST),

and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). With the Chinese partners, NWO launches

annual joint research calls, and has set up a strategic dialogue for the future Sino-Dutch research

agenda.

Ms Dai Le, Project manager/Interpreter with the Division of European Affairs, China Science and Technology Exchange Center (CSTEC), Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST), China Ms. DAI Le holds her first MA in Interpretation/Translation and Cross Cultural Studies from Xiamen

University of China in 2006. Later sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, she got her

second MA in Development Economics from National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan in

2011. She joined MoST in 2006 as an in-house interpreter, then a project officer and manager with the

Division of European Affairs, CSTEC, MoST. Over years, she has developed expertise in China-EU STI

cooperation in terms of ever managing dozens of European FP/Horizon 2020 Projects since 2008,

engaging in China-EU STI policy making, organizing for MoST bilateral/multilateral diplomatic events,

and developing papers/reports entrusted by MoST on China-EU/EU member states STI cooperation .

Currently she also works as a member of China-EU STI task force.

Ms Ichin Cheng, Director and Co-Founder of the Sustainable Innovation Lab, UK/Asia

Ichin Cheng is director and co-founder of Sustainable Innovation Lab. Over 25 years of international professional experience in the field of Environment related to Green Business Issues, climate change, policy response to mitigation and adaption, city climate change action plan development, low carbon city, Low carbon economy and green technology, sustainable materials and products. She is advisory board expert of EC Horizon 2020 of International Cooperation (2014-2016) and‘ industrial Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies, Nanotechnologies, Biotechnology, Advanced Materials and Advanced Manufacturing and Processing’ ( LEIT-NMBP). She is also innovation expert for EU flagship public private partnership program- CLIMATEKIC, advisory board member of US based OMEGAL global and involved US/ China low carbon cities initiative.

Mr Lin Gao, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China

In 1997, Professor Lin Gao got his bachelor degree in the field of Thermal Power Engineering of Power Plant. And at the same year, he entered the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Under the supervision of Professor Hongguang Jin, he got his doctor's degree in 2005, whose doctor thesis is the innovation of coal-based polygeneration system. He clarified the basic principle for integration of polygeneration system, which is systematically illuminated as “cascade conversion of material according to composition”, “cascade utilization of energy according to energy

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level” and “integration of clean fuel production and pollutants control”. Accordingly, a novel coal based polygeneration system combining the power generation and liquid fuel (methanol) production in sequential configuration, especially adopting the partial-recycle methanol synthesis scheme without CO/H2 adjustment process, is proposed, whose primary energy saving can reach 15%. And then, the polygeneration system with post-synthesis CO2 captured is integrated, which can recover the 70% of CO2 with nearly zero penalty. More than 50 scientific papers had been published in the last 5 years.

His major interests focus on the innovation of environmental friendly energy systems such as polygeneration system with CO2 capture, new coal gasification technologies, the renewable energy system, and so on; comparisons and analyses of economic character and adaptability of different CCS technologies; and energy and environmental strategy of China.

To the present, he had been involved in several international cooperation projects as team leader or work package leader, including Cooperation Action within CCS China-EU (COACH), Support to regulatory activities for CO2 capture and storage (STRACO2), and Near Zero Emissions Coal Initiative (NZEC), Supported by Defra, UK. As the CO2 capture technology expert, he was involved in several TA projects of ADB, in which he had made great efforts to propose the CCS roadmap of China.

Ms Hui Hong, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China

In 2004, Professor Hui Hong got her doctor degree in the field of Engineering Thermophysics in Chinese Academy of Sciences. She mainly works on the solar thermal fuel process for CO2 mitigation. She proposed the solar-driven methane-fuelled chemical-looping combustion where the concentrating solar thermal energy is converted into solid fuel and the CO2 from the methane fuel oxidized is captured with near-zero energy penalty. She also investigated oxygen materials and the design of the chemical-looping combustion reactor. In addition, she creatively proposed and investigated mid-temperature solar energy-driving methanol decomposition for solar electricity or hydrogen production. And this effort was successively applied in the cooling, heating and power technology which was originally developed a 100kW solar thermochemical CCHP system bench by her group. Furthermore, she revealed mechanism of energy-level upgrading of such mid-temperature solar thermochemical process. In her research periods, she gained Best Paper Award for International Green Energy Conference,

2007, Sweden, Young Scientists Award for Efficiency, Cost, Optimization, Simulation, and

Environmental Impact of Energy Systems, ECOS 2007 International Conference, Italy. Nearly 70

scientific papers had been published.

To the present, she had been involved in several national and international cooperation projects as a project leader or work package leader. Including National High Technology Research and Development Program 863 of China for solar hydrogen production, Grant Project of National Nature Science Foundation of China for utilization of full spectrum of sunlight in solar electricity, National Cooperation Action within CCS China- EU (COACH), and Near Zero Emissions Coal Initiative (NZEC), Supported by Defra, UK.

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Mr Weixiang Wu, Director of Institute of Environment Pollution Control and Treatment, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Dr. Wu Weixiang is the Director of Institute of Environment Pollution Control and Treatment, Zhejiang University, China. His research mainly focused on the potential role of biochar in mitigating climate change, specifically on the environment behaviour and effect of biochar in soil ecosystem. Dr. Wu hosted the first international academic seminar on the environment behaviour and effect of biochar in China in 2010. Dr. Wu's recent studies include carbon sequestration and greenhouse gases mitigation in paddy ecosystem, environment effect of biochar in paddy ecosystem under climate change condition, and organic waste utilization.

Mr Tao Wang, Associate Professor, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Dr. Tao Wang received his PhD in Engineering Thermophysics in 2008 from Zhejiang University

(China). He is active in the research area of CCUS, including CO2 capture from concentrated source

and the direct CO2 capture from air. He is serving as the site director to the Air Capture Technology

Consortium. He was invited to attend the Low-carbon technology roundtable meeting organized by

Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) (2014, at UN). He is currently involved in

international collaborations including China-Australia JCG funding, EU “CO2 Trip” project and US-

China NSF project. He is now an Associate Professor at Zhejiang University (China).