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Executive summary page 01
1. Welcoming page 04
2. Key Notes page 05
3. Session page 06
4. Session page 09
5. Closing page 11
6. Agenda and speaker biographies page 14
Executive summary
Very well received Joint “DRAGON STAR Plus - JPI Urban Europe” Workshop on Sustainable
Urbanisation cooperation between China and Europe, October 28th
, in Beijing
On October 28th, 2015, about 70 experts from China and Europe met in the Sino-German Center for
Research Promotion in Beijing, China, to talk over future trends in Sustainable Urbanisation and to
discuss efficient ways of collaboration between China and Europe with respect to the current fast
urbanisation developments in China, including also the possibilities of future joint calls and
systematic exchange of experiences and learning from the past.
Insights and Learnings
The new urbanization wave in China is developing very fast. China has a total number of 658 cities, of
which 140 have over 1 million inhabitants, 21 have over 4 million inhabitants and 6 cities have over
10 million inhabitants. The urban population in China shall reach 70% in 2030, currently being 54%,
meaning that 250 million rural residents should be moved into cities within the next 15 years.
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Urbanisation reality in China is currently unsatisfactory and in great need of improvement. Although
the urban population is becoming healthier, life expectancy is increasing, and poverty and child
mortality are declining, our environment is being destroyed and endangered by extremely increasing
rates of carbon dioxide emissions, ocean acidification, energy use, tropical forest loss, water use, and
fertilizer use.
Managing complex urban systems is about coordinating and sharing of information and data, turning
these data into knowledge and ensuring efficient and intelligent solutions for city management
(China’s logistics costs amount to 18% of the country’s GDP, vs the 10% in Western countries, and
the efficiency of logistics is very low, with 40% of trucks on the road being empty and an average
time for new load being 72 hours).
The next urbanisation waves need to become sustainable and adopt intelligent solutions to all these
environmental problems. In addition focus should be given on the citizens, the humans who will be
living in the urban areas, their health, wellbeing and their cultures.
China-Europe collaboration in Sustainable Urbanisation is basically backed by the EU-China
Urbanisation Platform, where China and Europe started their overall strategic cooperation in 2012.
12 pairs of China-EU sister cities signed agreements in 2013. In 2014 two EU-China new pattern
urbanization demonstration zones, the Shanghai Lingang District and Foshan New City, have been
introduced.
As response to the political commitments from China, the European Commission is offering a
package of concrete funding opportunities: at EU level with Horizon 2020 and the Belmont Forum
and at EU Member State level with the JPI Urban Europe initiative, in order to increase the
international visibility and scientific excellence of European urban research, technological
development and innovation.
Recommendations and Outlook
Sustainable Urbanization in China needs a holistic approach, including science and society and
engaging stakeholders in knowledge co-production towards urban health and wellbeing.
Cooperation between public, industry, research and education shall support the best processes and
intelligent and sustainable solutions, taking into consideration different aspects, such as public
welfare, cultural heritage, smart tourism and environmental protection, as well as evaluating and
making use of ´next generation´ technologies. This suggested holistic approach should be able to
develop an ´urban eco-system´, allowing for integrating advanced knowledge and robust data related
to, among others, energy, mobility, water and waste water management.
In addition, Sustainable Urbanisation will have to address new challenges of megacities due to
important demographic developments, such as an ageing population or an increased need of e-
health.
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Future joint aspects in Sustainable Urbanisation between China and Europe will be addressed by the
Belmont Forum and JPI UE in the near future. Member States represented in JPI UE are inviting
Chinese stakeholders and funding bodies to exchange experience and work on a joint roadmap on
Sustainable Urbanisation. Matchmaking days will be organised by the JPI UE Research Alliance to
support finding partners.
Contact data:
Margit NOLL, Chair of JPI Urban Europe Management Board
Hans-Günther SCHWARZ, Policy Coordinator
http://jpi-urbaneurope.eu/
Chinese companies, universities and research organisations are invited to make use of the existing
collaboration opportunities. Concrete actions and instruments targeting China are available within
H2020. All open and forthcoming calls can be found in the Participant Portal.
- China relevant calls within the cross-cutting call on Smart and Sustainable Cities: H2020-SCC-
02-2016-2017
- EU-China cooperation on sustainable urbanization: H2020-SC6-ENG GLOBALLY 2016-2017
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/home.html
The Dragon Star Plus project is providing a network to support and pass on information related to
China-Europe collaboration. It will continue to support policy dialogues between China and Europe.
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Welcoming (Session 1)
Mr Xing Jijun, Deputy Director General of the China Science and Technology Exchange Centre
(CSTEC) welcomed the experts and participants with wholehearted words about the important role
of international cooperation for China as well as for the China Science and Technology Exchange
Centre. He pointed out that the cooperation in Sustainable Urbanisation with Europe needed to be
well organised, targeting also potential joint calls. He thanked the organisers, Dragon Star Plus and
JPI Urban Europe, for organising the workshop, which had the purpose to raise awareness of future
cooperation possibilities between China and Europe in all areas of Sustainable Urbanisation (SU).
Ms Karen Schoch, Assistant Director of the Sino-German Center for Research Promotion in Beijing,
was underlining, as host of the event, that the workshop should be seen as a platform for
stakeholders to exchange information and experiences on Sustainable Urbanisation as well as outline
expectations and ideas on how collaboration in SU could look like in the near future.
Mr Laurent Bochereau, Science Counsellor and Head of the Science, Technology and Environment
Section at the Delegation of the European Union to China and Mongolia, pointed out that
Sustainable Urbanisation has been a big challenge for China and Europe and that it is needed to
share experiences, especially during the current fast developments in China, aiming at reaching an
urban population of 70% in 2030 (currently being 54%). He mentioned the recently signed co-funding
mechanism1 established by the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology and the European
Commission´s Directorate General for Research and Innovation which would soon be in action,
expecting to continue spending over 100 million Euros per year for the benefit of Europe-based
entities in joint H2020 projects with Chinese participants. In parallel China would match
corresponding resources expecting to spend 200 million RMB per year for the benefit of Chinese
based entities that would participate in joint projects with European ones under Horizon 2020.
He passed the word to Hans-Günther Schwarz, JPI Urban Europe Policy Coordinator, by underlying
that Europe was prepared with dedicated H2020 priorities in Sustainable Urbanisation and that the
Member States had agreed on common priorities in Sustainable Urbanisation with JPI Urban Europe
having defined China as important partner country.
Mr Hans-Günther Schwarz, JPI Urban Europe (JPI UE) Policy Coordinator, described JPI UE as an
effort driven by the European Union addressing grand challenges where countries could join and
mobilise funds. As co-organiser of the workshop he explained that the workshop was a good way to
address global challenges of SU and to find joint solutions. He announced the new launch of the
Strategic Research & Innovation Agenda (SRIA)2 in September 2015 offering different options on
different levels of STI cooperation between China and Europe.
1 http://ec.europa.eu/research/iscp/index.cfm?pg=china
2 http://jpi-urbaneurope.eu/activities/sria-agenda
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Mr Epaminondas Christofilopoulos, the DRAGON-STAR Plus Project Coordinator, thanked the
DRAGON-STAR Plus project partners BSEAC, CSTEC, and FFG for the organisation of the workshop. He
referred to the Dragon Star study China 2025 Research and Innovation Landscape 3 pointing out that
in 2025 China was forecasted to have 200 cities with populations of over one million and that
Sustainable Urbanisation would have to address the challenges of megacities with important
demographic developments, such as an ageing population or an increased need of e-health. He
underlined that these trends would open new areas of cooperation in the near future which should
jointly be addressed.
Key Notes (Session 2)
Mr Wu Zhiqiang, Dean of the School of Design and Innovation at CIUC-China Intelligent
Urbanization Co-creation Center for High Density Region,Tongji University. He informed the
audience that the Asian urbanisation process started much later than in Europe rising very fast
especially after the 1975 reform. He underlined that China was currently aiming to become an
Innovation Society. He referred to cities as comprehensive systems of high complexity, comparing
them with living beings comprising multiple sub-systems, such as ecology, environment and culture.
He developed the expressions ´City Being´ and ´City IQ´, a score to evaluate the performance of a city
at its current development phase.
He pointed out that intelligent cities had 5 components, namely economy, infrastructure, eco-
environment, people, and governance which could be monitored within an evaluation system
allowing the comparison and ranking of city development in Europe and China.
Ms Margit Noll, chair of JPI Urban Europe Management Board, presented that 75% of the European
population was living in cities, with 50% of them having 50,000-100,000 inhabitants. She pointed out
that European cities were coping with several demographic, economic and ecologic challenges such
as the
• heterogeneous pattern of urban growth and shrinkage
• increasing share of elderly (60+)
• distinct east-west and south-north upward gradient of GDP per capita
• increasing temperature in Southern and Eastern continental regions
She pointed out that the screening of urban megatrends in Europe showed that a diverse set of
interrelated challenges and potentials of European cities had to be tackled and regional differences,
needs and potentials had to be addressed. This would make it possible to develop new strategies in
order to manage urban transition and provide evidence for urban policy making ensuring strong
stakeholder involvement in research and innovation.
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She emphasised that efforts in Europe had been joined, with European policies, European research
programs (H2020) and EU Cohesion and Structural Funds interacting through JPI Urban Europe with
National RDI programmes, Cities, Local Initiatives, Research organisations, Industry and SMEs in
order to
• provide evidence for the European urban agenda
• build critical masses and aligning national competences and programs
• complement smart city flagship initiatives
• define a new paradigm in urban research & innovation
Session 3: China-EU Cooperation and Funding Opportunities
Mr Diego Sammaritano, Policy Officer at DG Research and Innovation (European Commission) and
Project Officer of Dragon Star Plus, referred to the joint Declaration on the EU-China partnership on
urbanisation4, signed by the President of the EC Barroso and China vice Premier Li in 2012.
He pointed out that as response to the political commitments the EC is offering
1) at EU level a package of concrete funding opportunities within Horizon 2020 and the
Belmont Forum (international platform of funding agencies dealing with global
environmental change research, with China being represent by NSFC) JPI Urban Europe,
2) at EU Member State level the JPI Urban Europe initiative in order to increase the
international visibility and scientific excellence of European urban research, technological
development and innovation.
He introduced China relevant H2020 calls to be opened in Societal Challenge 6 (a and b) and Societal
Challenge 2 (c and d), expecting to
a) improve reciprocal knowledge on Cultural and socio-economic aspects of urban issues in
China,
b) establish an EU-China Innovation Platform on Sustainable Urbanisation,
c) develop innovative urban farming systems and
d) low carbon urban farming systems within Resource-efficient urban agriculture for multiple
benefits, contributing to the EU-China Partnership.
He concluded that Chinese involvement was more than welcome and essential in all these topics and
that the political commitment was confirmed by MOST through the co-funding mechanism which
would provide financial support to Chinese entities in projects selected under H2020 based on their
own rules. According to him details would follow soon.
4 http://eeas.europa.eu/delegations/china/eu_china/sustainable_urbanisation/sustainable_urbanisation.htm
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Mr Otthein Herzog from the China Intelligent Urbanization Co-Creation Center for High Density
Region at the Tongji Universtiy, informed about urban infrastructures meeting people´s needs of
production, distribution of goods, mobility, life and recreation. While China had 800,000 private car
holders in 1990, there were 90 million private car holders in 2012 with traffic congestion currently
coming with a very big price to society, increasing wasted time, fuel consumption, air and noise
pollution and traffic safety.
He stressed that in China high logistics costs (18% in China vs 10% in Western countries as
percentage of GDP) and low efficiency of logistics (40% of trucks on road are empty, average time for
new load being 72 hours) would imply the need for intelligent solutions such as an ´Intelligent
Logistics Management´.
He suggested adding a nervous layer to cities through a ´Logistics ICT infrastructure´ in cities, turning
data into knowledge by
• collecting online traffic data,
• using information for city transport scheduling,
• reducing delays, on-time delivery and higher utilisation of trucks,
• using past data for knowledge mining and prediction of actual traffic situation.
He outlined that 300 Chinese cities had started their intelligent city development so far in order to
support China becoming more efficient, more inhabitable, greener and more beautiful in the next 10
years to come.
Mr Hans-Günther Schwarz, JPI Urban Europe (JPI UE) Policy Coordinator, introduced the Joint
Programming Initiative (JPI) Urban Europe (UE), a joint initiative of 22 European countries, and its
joint actions, such as the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA), Joint Calls, Alignment of
national RD&I Programmes as well as the Urban Europe Research Alliance and Stakeholder Forum.
He underlined the following possible instruments for cooperation with China within the
- Urban Europe Research Alliance, a network of research institutions
• Joint position papers
• Joint conferences and scientific exchange
• Development of joint strategic projects
• Alignment of research infrastructures
- Urban Stakeholder Forum, a platform connecting science, cities, business and other urban
stakeholders
• Exchange of experiences between Chinese and European cities
• Translation of research results into solutions
• Validation and demonstration of new solutions under different conditions in China and
Europe
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Mr Cao Buyang from the China Intelligent Urbanization Co-Creation Center for High Density Region
at the Tongji Universtiy, introduced the ´Smart-region data platform´, an open system the goals of
which are information sharing, real time precise data retrieving, analysing and decision making. The
user community shall be urban planning professionals, researchers and scholars, municipal
managers, the public, interfaces with other systems and the developers.
According to him data sharing in city management is an important aspect. He pointed out that the
future goal was to make the platform customizable, including real time data streaming and analysis,
supporting the Mayor Desk as particular service for city management.
Ms Renee van Kessel-Hagesteijn, Director Science for Global Development (WOTRO) and National
Initiative Brain and Cognition (NIHC) at the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research,
pointed out that the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) was looking back at 15
years of experience in bilateral and multilateral cooperation with China, having many cooperations
with Chinese partners, such as CAS, NSFC, or MOST in programmes being multi annual funding
projects.
She outlined that there are several European platforms, such as JPI Urban Europe, JPI Climate, JPI
Water, Era-Net Norface, or the Belmont Forum, and that working within these platforms is not easy,
but if such platforms are successful it is very beneficial and rewarding being part of it!
Mr Franz W. Gatzweiler, Executive Director of the Programme on Urban Health and Wellbeing at
the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), contributed to the discussion by presented the very
important aspect of health and wellbeing in cities. He pointed out that although the human
population was healthier than ever before with increasing life expectancy and declining poverty and
child mortality, our planet had being exploited at an extraordinary rate when looking at extremely
increasing rates of carbon dioxide emissions, ocean acidification, energy use, tropical forest loss,
water use, and fertilizer use.
He mentioned that cities were complex and dynamic and so were the urban health problems with air
pollution being one of the most serious ones. Managing these complex urban systems was about
organizing the sharing of information on how to provide urban system services for health and
wellbeing, an opportunity for self-governance and innovation.
He introduced the programme systems approach which should interconnect science and society,
conceptualizing and analyzing the city as a complex urban system and at the same time transcending
disciplinary boundaries and engaging stakeholders in knowledge co-production. He underlined that
the programme was a platform for co-production of knowledge towards a new system science for
urban health and wellbeing.
He outlined that collective social intelligence is needed before building intelligent cities!
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Session 4: STI Priorities of Chinese and European Research Organisations & Networks
Ms Liu Yue, Deputy Director of the International Cooperation Division of the China Centre for
Urban Development (CCUD) at NDRC, gave interesting background information about the new
urbanization development in China. China has 658 cities in total, of which 140 have over 1 million
inhabitants, 21 have over 4 million inhabitants and 6 cities have over 10 million inhabitants.
She mentioned the important EU-China Urbanisation Platform, where China and Europe started their
overall strategic cooperation and signed a "Joint Communiqué" in 2012. Co-organized by NDRC and
DG ENER, 12 pairs of China-EU sister cities signed agreements at the “2013 China EU Partnership on
Urbanization Forum”, in Beijing in 2013.
In 2014 two EU-China new pattern urbanization demonstration zones5, the Shanghai Lingang District
and Foshan New City, had been introduced. The latest meeting and central event of the Partnership
was the 2015 EU-China Urbanisation Partnership Forum6 which took place back-to-back with the EU-
China Summit on 29 June 2015 at the European Commission's Headquarters Brussels.
Finally, she pointed out that CCUD was a good partner for Europe to reach out for suitable
researchers for joint research projects and exchange of experts, since the more partners collaborate
the more mutual support was possible.
Mr Christos Fragakis, Deputy Head of the Unit on Sustainable Management of Natural Resources of
DG Research and Innovation at the EC, introduced China relevant calls within the cross-cutting call
´Smart and Sustainable Cities´ (H2020-SCC-02-2016-2017), in which Chinese cities would be welcome
to participate.
He pointed out that these calls to be opened in 2016 and 2017 would seek for nature based and
living solutions, such as green roofs, or vertical green walls, inspired and supported by nature and
designed to bring more nature and natural features and processes into cities. Main objective of the
calls would be to promote wide deployment of innovative nature based solutions (NBS) to address
urban societal challenges at large scale interventions, including international co-operation.
For further information on nature based solutions (NBS) the following links had been provided:
Research Participant Portal
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/home.html
Horizon 2020 Helpdesk
http://ec.europa.eu/research/enquiries
EU R&I on Nature-Based Solutions
http://ec.europa.eu/research/environment/index_en.cfm?pg=nature-based-solutions
Renaturing Cities RTD portal
http://ec.europa.eu/research/environment/index_en.cfm?pg=land
Experts report on NBS and Renaturing cities
https://ec.europa.eu/research/environment/pdf/renaturing/nbs.pdf
5 http://www.ccud.org.cn/2015-02-11/114373461.html
6 https://ec.europa.eu/energy/en/events/eu-china-urbanisation-partnership-forum-2015
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Ms Chang Liu, project manager at the Culture and Tourism Planning Department of the China
Academy of Urban Planning and Design, focused on the cultural perspective of the future China-EU
urbanisation cooperation
She pointed out that since within the next 12 years 250 million rural residents should be moved into
cities the speed and scale should be taken into consideration, allowing for culture sustainability to be
a major pillar for this future economic development. She demonstrated that urbanisation reality in
China was currently triste and unsatisfactory.
The following potential topics for China-EU STI cooperation in the area of sustainable urbanization
had been suggested:
• preservation of cultural heritage/intangible heritage,
• identity and cultural memory,
• skills and capabilities,
• cultural and smart tourism,
• cultural infrastructure,
• cultural institution management,
• technology which can support creative industry.
Ms Annemie Wyckmans, Head of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Smart Sustainable Cities group and working group leader of the Urban Europe Research Alliance
(UERA), highlighted the fact that exchange of experiences (between Europe and China) and reasons
why projects fail or are successful would allow for much faster developments, better planning and
design.
She suggested the ´triple helix´ models for cooperation between public, industry, research and
education for supporting the best processes and solutions, rather than implementing ´business as
usual´.
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She also pointed out that there was much information available but we did not use it properly,
consequently standardised validation and documentation was needed to help create better projects
and better platforms for exchange and cooperation, including all the relevant criteria for Sustainable
Urbanisation.
Mr Massimo Bagnasco, Partner and Managing Director of Progetto CMR-Beijing, pointed out that
the present Urban Planning model in China did not match with the present needs and characteristics
of the Chinese urban developments. He suggested starting to think the city in a different way using a
holistic approach, by bringing different stakeholders together (e.g. industry, policy makers, etc.), by
taking into consideration different aspects, such as public welfare, cultural heritage, environmental
protection and by evaluating and making use of ´next generation´ technologies. This suggested
approach should be able to develop an ´urban eco-system´, allowing for integrating advanced
knowledge and robust data related to, among others, energy, mobility, water and waste water
management.
Closing (Session 5)
Hans-Günther Schwarz closed by pointing out that it was important for JPI Urban Europe to find
interested Chinese funding partners and that the workshop was important as first step in this
direction. He concluded that scientific evidence was an important aspect and that in Europe cities are
the biggest funders for infrastructure but collaboration with science is not easy! Member States
represented in JPI UE would be interested and happy to exchange experience and he invited Chinese
partners to jointly work on a joint roadmap on Sustainable Urbanisation.
Diego Sammaritano underlined that there is clear willingness to do cooperate, not only political
willingness was existing, but concrete actions/instruments were available, mentioning again H2020
targeting China. He repeated the important collaboration within the Belmont Forum and JPI UE,
addressing important aspects of Sustainable Urbanisation.
He was inviting Chinese companies, universities and research organisations to make use of the
existing opportunities and wished we would gather in a couple of years to exchange joint
experiences.
Epaminondas Christofilopoulos summarised that China and Europe had the same urbanisation
problems, using though different tools and different instruments, but cooperation could and should
be focused, finding joint solutions.
He underlined that the Dragon Star Plus project would continue its activities in different areas, with
working on studies and analyses on different problems and hurdles being an important task for the
near future.
Karen Schoch concluded that the participation in the workshop was the sign for interest and
friendship and that this for deepening collaboration, different stakeholders should be involved.
According to her the workshop achieved its goals contributing to mutual understanding and building
trust!
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Laurent Bochereau | Minister Counsellor, Head of Science,
Technology and Environment Section, EU Delegation to
China
Xing Jijun |Deputy Director General,
China Science and Technology Exchange Center, China
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Left to right:
Ralf König | Austrian Research Promotion Agency
Annie Dai |China Science and Technology Exchange Center
Manfred Horvat | JPI Urban Senior Advisor International STI
Cooperation, Austria
Elli Tzatzanis-Stepanovic | Austrian Research Promotion Agency
Hans-Günther Schwarz | JPI Urban Europe Policy Coordinator, Austria
Margit Noll | JPI Urban Europe Management Board, Austrian Institute of Technology
Diego Sammaritano | Policy Officer, DG Research
and Innovation, European Commission
Margit Noll | JPI Urban Europe Management Board,
Austrian Institute of Technology
Wu Zhiqiang | Vice President, Tongji University,
China Intelligent Urbanization Co-creation Center for
High Density Region
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Cooperation on Sustainable
Urbanisation between China and Europe
Joint “DRAGON STAR Plus - JPI Urban Europe” Workshop
Date: October 28th
, 2015
Venue: Sino-German Center for Research Promotion
Shuangqing Road 83
Beijing 100085, PR China
08.30-09.00 Registration
09.00-09:45 1. Welcoming and
Opening session
Moderator: Dong Keqin | Director of European Affairs, China Science and
Technology Exchange Center, China
• Xing Jijun |Deputy Director General, China Science and Technology
Exchange Center, China
• Karen Schoch |Assistant Director, Sino-German Center for Research
Promotion, China
• Laurent Bochereau | Minister Counsellor, Head of Science, Technology
and Environment Section, EU Delegation to China
• Hans-Günther Schwarz | JPI Urban Europe Policy Coordinator, Austria
• Epaminondas Christofilopoulos | DRAGON-STAR Plus Project
Coordinator, Greece
09:45-10.30 2. Key note speeches:
EU-China STI
Cooperation --
Challenges of
Urbanisation in Europe
and China
Moderator: Odette Paramor, Associate Professor, The University of
Nottingham Ningbo, China
• Wu Zhiqiang | Vice President, Tongji University, CIUC-China Intelligent
Urbanization Co-creation Center for High Density Region, China
• Margit Noll | JPI Urban Europe Management Board, Austria
10.30-11.00 Coffee/Tea Break
11.00-13.00 3. China-EU
Cooperation and
Funding Opportunities:
Existing bi-/multilateral
cooperation and
funding opportunities
for China-EU
cooperation in the area
of sustainable
urbanisation
Moderator: Ralf König | Austrian Research Promotion Agency, Austria
• Diego Sammaritano | Policy Officer, DG Research and Innovation,
European Commission
• Otthein Herzog | Tongji Universtiy, CIUC-China Intelligent Urbanization
Co-Creation Center for High Density Region, China
• Hans-Günther Schwarz | JPI Urban Europe Policy Coordinator, Austria
• Cao Buyang | Tongji Universtiy, CIUC-China Intelligent Urbanization Co-
Creation Center for High Density Region, China
• Renée van Kessel-Hagesteijn | NWO-Netherlands Organisation for
Scientific Research, Netherlands
• Franz W. Gatzweiler | Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Urban
Environment, China
Rapporteur: Laura Rampazzo | BSEAC-Beijing Software Enterprise Advisory
Center, China
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13:00-14.00 Lunch Break
14.00-16.00 4. STI Priorities of
Chinese and European
Research Organisations
& Networks:
Potential topics in
China-EU Science
Technology and
Innovation cooperation
in the area of
sustainable
urbanisation
Moderator: Manfred Horvat | JPI Urban Senior Advisor International STI
Cooperation, Austria
• Liu Yue | Deputy Director, CCUD- China Center for Urban Development,
China
• Christos Fragakis | Deputy Head of Unit, DG Research and Innovation,
European Commission
• Chang Liu |Culture and Tourism Planning Department Director, China
Academy of Urban Planning and Design, China
• Annemie Wyckmans | NTNU-Norwegian University of Science and
Technology, Norway
• Massimo Bagnasco | Progetto CMR (Beijing) Architectural Design
Consultants Co., Ltd., Italy
Rapporteur: Elli Tzatzanis-Stepanovic | Austrian Research Promotion Agency,
Austria
16.00-16.30 Coffee/Tea Break
16.30-17.00 5. Closing session • Hans-Günther Schwarz | JPI Urban Europe Policy Coordinator, Austria
• Diego Sammaritano | Policy Officer, DG Research and Innovation,
European Commission
• Epaminondas Christofilopoulos | DRAGON-STAR Plus Project
Coordinator, Greece
• Karen Schoch |Assistant Director, Sino-German Center for Research
Promotion, China
17.00-19.00 Networking Buffet
Event Website:
http://www.dragon-star.eu/event/eu-china-sustainable-urbanization-workshop-28-october-2015-beijing
Event Registration:
https://www2.ffg.at/anmeldungen/eu_china_sustainable_urbanisation_workshop
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Speakers
Session 1.
• Xing Jijun
Deputy Director General of China Science and Technology Exchange Centre, China.
Xing Jijun received his Ph.D. degree in management from the Administrative Management
Department of Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He is Deputy Director-General of
CSTEC. Xing started to work in 1977, and served in the then State Ministry of Petroleum from 1982.
From 1990 to 2011, he worked at the Department of International Cooperation in the Ministry of
Science and Technology (formerly known as the State Science and Technology Commission)
successively as Program Officer for Asian and African Affairs, Second Secretary for the Chinese
Embassy in Norway, Deputy Director for North-West European Affairs, First Secretary for the Chinese
Embassy in the Netherlands, Director for Asian and African Affairs, and Director for European
Affairs. He assumed the current role in July 2011.
• Karen Schoch
Assistant Director, Sino-German Center for Research Promotion Beijing
Prior to joining the Sino-German Center for Research Promotion Beijing in 2014, she worked as a
program officer for Collaborative Research Centers and Clusters of Excellence at the German
Research Foundation (DFG) as well as a program coordinator for Indian-German university
partnerships at the branch office of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in New Delhi.
As Assistant Director at the Sino-German Center for Research Promotion, she is responsible to advise
and support scientists funded under the programme schemes of the Center as well as proposal
processing. She also deputizes for the German Director and Vice-Director regarding internal duties
and external representation.
• Laurent Bochereau
Science Counsellor, Head, Science, Technology and Environment Section, Delegation of the
European Union to China and Mongolia
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 (2014-2010).
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• Hans-Günther Schwarz
JPI Urban Europe Policy Coordinator, Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and
Technology, Austria
Studied Physics in Munich and at Vienna Technical University; co-ordination of environmental
technology research at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology
(BMVIT) since 1993; development and implementation of the strategic technology programme
“Factory of Tomorrow” under the Austrian Programme on Technologies for Sustainable Development
(1999-2008); Initiator of, and Austrian delegate to ERA-NET SUSPRISE (2003); Austrian delegate to
IEA-CERT (2006-2008); Seconded National Expert at the European Commission (2008-2010),
implementing the online-platform NETWATCH; Since 2010: strategic coordinator at BMVIT of
Austria’s national programmes on urban issues and participation in trans-national programme
initiatives related to energy and urbanisation RDI (SET-Plan, European Innovation Partnership Smart
Cities and Communities, Smart Cities Member States Initiative, ERA-NET Smart Cities and
Communities, and Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe); policy coordinator of the JPI Urban
Europe.
• Epaminondas Christofilopoulos
DRAGON-STAR Plus Project Coordinator, Head of International Cooperation, PRAXI/FORTH,
Greece
Started working as project manager in projects in 2001 and became a Greek NCP for EU FP programs.
In FP6, he was officially nominated as the Greek NCP for Environment, Energy, Transport and for the
ERANET activities, while currently in FP7, he is the NCP for International Cooperation (INCO) and for
Transport. As an NCP, he has been advicing potential participants in the FP and delivered tens of
seminars in Europe and overseas. In 2004, he set up a new activity in HF related to International
Cooperation and especially consultancy support to Third Countries for establishing research and
technological cooperation with the EU. Since then, he has coordinated several projects and tenders
in Eastern Europe, Asia, the Gulf peninsula and Central America.
Since 2010, Epaminondas is a founding member of the Greek Node of the Millennium Project, a
network coordinating futures research and foresight studies.
Key Notes (Session 2)
• Wu Zhiqiang
Head of the Centre and Vice-President & Dean of the School of Design and Innovation
Tongji University, CIUC-China Intelligent Urbanization Co-creation Center for High Density
Region, China
Born in August 1960, Shanghai, got his Doctor degree from Technical University of Berlin and is
currently the Vice President of Tongji University, professor and doctoral tutor of College of
Architecture and Urban Planning. He is the Academician of Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering
Science, and Honorary Fellow of American Institute of Architects, as well as serves as the Chief
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Planner of EXPO 2010 Shanghai, Co-Chair of
International Steering Committee of World Planning School Congress, Permanent Member of
UNESCO-UIA World Architectural Education Council, Member of Advisory Committee - Creative
Economy-United Nations Special Unit for South-South Cooperation, UNDP, Chairman of Planning
Eduction Steering Council of China, Vice President of Urban Planning Society of China, Vice President
of China Association of Building Energy Efficiency, Vice President of China Green Building Council and
Director of CGBC Green Campus Committee.
Prof.WU is devoted to sustainable urban design and education. He advocatesurban design Innovatio
n both in practice and in methodology for urban sustainability in China. His achievements researches,
practices as well as education have won him 11 important international and national awards and the
honors of “Shanghai Excellent Party Member in Education System”, “2004-2006 Model Worker of
Shanghai”, “Shanghai Pioneer”, “Special Contribution to the Earthquake Relief”, “National Labor
Award” “National Pioneering Worker” and etc.
• Margit Noll
Chair JPI Urban Europe Management Board, Head of Corporate Strategy, Austrian Institute of
Technology, Austria
Since 1998 Margit Noll is with the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology in several positions. She has
15 years’ experience in research management and strategy development. Before taking over
Corporate Strategy at AIT she was concerned with the strategic development and international
project development in the field of electric vehicles. Since 2009 she is in particular involved in the
development of the Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe with the ambition to set up a
transnational research initiative on urban development. As Chair of the Management Board she is in
charge of the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda and its implementation, comprising
international outreach, establishment of strategic partnerships and of a strong stakeholder
involvement. She is also project manager of the FP7-funded project SEiSMiC – Societal Engagement
in Science, Mutual learning in Cities. Margit holds a PhD in physics and an MBA in general
management.
Session 3
• Diego Sammaritano
Policy Officer, Unit RTD C 1 - Policy Coordination, EFTA and Enlargement countries, Russia, Asia
and Pacific, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
Currently responsible for EU Research & Innovation relations with China, coordinating S&T policy
dialogue, the development of joint research programmes, and supervising a series of EU funded
research policy support projects targeting China. Previously in charge of S&T relations with India
(2010-2013) and Higher Education cooperation with the US (2004-2009) in the latter position he
coordinated an Erasmus-like programme and developed together with the US Department of
Education a new programme supporting joint and double degrees and student and faculty exchanges
over the Atlantic. He served for 6 years as the EU advisory member of the board of directors of the
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Fulbright Commission for Belgium and
Luxembourg and created the Schuman-Fulbright programme to support research and study on EU
integration and EU-US relations.
• Otthein Herzog
Tongji Universtiy, CIUC-China Intelligent Urbanization Co-Creation Center for High Density
Region, China
From 1977 to 1993, he worked for IBM Germany in various technical and managerial positions in
software development and in the R&D of knowledge-based systems. From 1993-2009 he held the
position of the chaired professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bremen, Germany,
where he was the director of the research and technology transfer institute TZI – Center for
Information and Communication Technologies from 1995 to 2009 with more than 160 researchers.
He continues to work as a research professor at this university. Since 2010 he holds the Wisdom
Professorship of Visual Information Technologies at Jacobs University Bremen.
Since 1998, he is also an affiliate professor to the Machine Learning and Inference Laboratory of the
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA.
His research interests include Knowledge Management for Multi-Agent Systems for Industry and
Logistics 4.0, ICT for Smart Cities, Wearable Computing for work processes and health applications,
and the semantic analysis of images and videos. In these research fields he has (co-)authored more
than 260 refereed scientific publications.
Dr. Herzog is Fellow of acatech – German National Academy of Science and Engineering, Fellow of GI
– German National Computer Society, and member of the ACM. He also serves on various boards of
German research institutes.
• Hans-Günther Schwarz
See above
• Cao Buyang
Tongji Universtiy, CIUC-China Intelligent Urbanization Co-Creation Center for High Density
Region, China
Cao Buyang is an expert in operational research with rich experience in logistics, transportation,
supply chain logistics and big data analysis. He possesses professional and proficient skills in resolving
pragmatic issues with knowledge of modeling, development methods, system framework and
database. Dr. Cao is a senior team leader and has led his team completing a series of projects for big
clients such as Orkin, USS, eBay, Sears, FedEx, Yellow Roadway Corporation, BostonCoach etc., and
he also participated in major development and design activities for OnStar, Southwestern Bell,
Maersk/Sealand and so forth. He has ten-year work experience overseas, mainly in the United States.
He is also a member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
(INFORMS).
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• Renee van Kessel-Hagesteijn
Director Social Sciences (MaGW), director Science for Global Development (WOTRO) and
director National Initiative Brain and Cognition (NIHC), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific
Research (NWO), The Netherlands
She expertises in developing strategies in the field of social and behavioral sciences, aimed at inter-
and multidisciplinary cooperation, setting up and co-funding multilateral, multidisciplinary research
programs and networks, both within Europe as well as beyond. She is also part of the Board of
Directors of Systems Training Analysis and Research (START), Washington DC, USA; coordinating
research and capacity building in perspective of global climate change, Executive Committee
International Social Science Council (ISSC, UNESCO, Paris), Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe
(research cooperation between organisations in 15 countries), Co-chair of the Trans-Atlantic Platform
for the Social Sciences and Humanities (EU funded), Coordinator NORFACE II, EU ERANET for the
Social Sciences (scientific cooperation between research councils in 17 countries).
• Franz W. Gatzweiler
Executive Director, ICSU-IAMP-UNU Programme on Urban Health and Wellbeing: A Systems
Approach, Institute of Urban Environment (IUE), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China
Franz Gatzweiler studied Agricultural Science at Bonn University and International Agricultural
Economics at the Humboldt University of Berlin. His doctoral research topic at Humboldt University
was on the “Nature of Economic Value”. He received stipends from the German academic Exchange
Service (DAAD), German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
(AvH), and was visiting scholar at the Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and
Policy Analysis in 2003. Franz Gatzweiler’s research interests cover problems of value in complex
socio-ecological systems, institutional change in polycentric organization, marginality and technology
innovations for productivity growth in rural development, co-production of science and fractal
organization theory.
Session 4.
• Liu Yue
Deputy Director of the International Cooperation Division of the China Centre for Urban
Development (CCUD), National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China
Ms. LIU Yue is the Deputy Director of the International Cooperation Division of CCUD, NDRC . Prior to
her current assignment, She led work at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, World Bank and Wilson
Centre. She was the post-doctoral student at Institute of World Economics and Politics, CASS and
did the academic exchange as the visiting scholar invited by George Washington University at 2007-
2009. Her research interests are mainly international political economy, energy policy and
international urbanization.
• Christos Fragakis
Deputy Head of the Unit on “Management of natural resources” of Directorate General of
Research and Innovation, European Commission, DG research and Innovation
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He is
currently Deputy Head in the Unit of
“Sustainable management of natural resources” which is responsible for “innovating with nature and
cultural heritage for environmental, social and economic sustainability and resilience” as part of the
societal challenge 5 on “Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials”. He has
been working as a project and policy Officer in the Directorate General of Research and Innovation of
the European Commission since 1987. He has been responsible for the RTD policy in a variety of
sectors, such a Marine Science and Technology, Coastal engineering and protection, Integrated
Coastal Zone Management, Water resources management and freshwater ecosystems and Nature-
based solutions and Cultural Heritage for economic, social and environmental resilience. He did his
undergraduate studies in Marine Engineering in the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) and his
graduate studies in Ocean Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T), U.S.A.
• Zhou Jianming
Culture and Tourism Planning Department Director, China Academy of Urban Planning and
Design, China
Dr. Zhou Jianming is the director of culture and tourism planning department in China Academy of
Urban Planning and Design. He received Ph.D. in Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dr. Zhou Jianming is
an expert in urban planning, heritage conversation, and tourism management. He has taken charge
of more than 50 national urban planning and heritage protection projects all over China, and has
been manager of 5 heritage projects funded by China national nature science foundation (NSFC). Dr.
Zhou Jianming is guest professor in Beijing University and Tsinghua University. He teaches urban
planning and tourism management in Master and Ph.D. programs. He has often been invited to
present his research and deliver lectures and speeches in prestigious conferences and academic and
professional institutions.
• Annemie Wyckmans
Vice Dean of Research, Head of the NTNU Smart Cities group, Research Centre on Zero
Emission Buildings / Smart Cities, Department of Architectural Design, History and Technology
Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
Norway
She has an MSc in Architectural Engineering from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, a PhD in
Building Technology and a postdoctoral degree on education for environment-friendly architecture
from NTNU. In 2010 she initiated the international interdisciplinary MSc programme in Sustainable
Architecture at NTNU, and has led an interdisciplinary Experts in Team course in Sustainable
Architecture at NTNU 2006-2013. Her main responsibilities are developing and promoting strategic
research in architecture, urban planning and art at Norwegian, EU and international Level (including
China), in particular related to Smart Cities; and facilitating interaction between research, education
and industry, to ensure capacity building of and awareness among future professionals (master and
PhD). She is currently main supervisor for 3 PhD candidates and 3 postdoctoral researchers. She is
mainly working with research and innovation on smart cities and neighbourhoods, aiming to
promote the role of architectural and urban design in smart, energy-efficient, climate-resilient cities
(e.g. EERA Joint Programme Smart Cities, FP7-funded «ZenN Near zero energy neighbourhoods» and
RAMSES «Climate change adaptation, mitigation and sustainable development in cities», and IEA SHC
Task 51 «Solar energy in urban planning»). She leads the Norwegian EU-shadow group on Energy-
Efficient Buildings and Smart Cities and Communities, and a corresponding network at NTNU.
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• Massimo Bagnasco
Partner & Managing Director, Progetto CMR (Beijing) Architectural Design Consultants Co.,
Ltd., Italy
Massimo Bagnasco is an architect specialized in urban planning design, operating in China since
2004.
He is Managing Director and Partner of Progetto CMR (Beijing), one of the largest Italian integrated
design firms, ranked into world’s Top 100 architectural firms. At the meantime, Massimo is Member
of the Executive Committee of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China. He has been
actively involved in the EUCCC for 10 years, covering the positions of Chairman and Vice Chairman of
the Construction Working Group. Moreover, Massimo Bagnasco has joined preparation,
implementation and development activities related to the EU-China Partnership on Urbanization. He
is operating, as expert, in several cooperation projects, among the others: Taskforce for EU-China
Innovation Cooperation Dialogue; EU - China Urbanization Leadership Programme; UrbaChina; EU-
China Smart City Project.
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Organiser Contacts
Europe:
Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
Ms Elli B. Tzatzanis-Stepanovic
DRAGON-STAR Plus Project Manager at FFG
Mr Ralf König
Staff Position International STI Cooperation
SFIC China Working Group Member
PRAXI Network – Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH)
Mr Epaminondas Christofilopoulos
DRAGON-STAR Plus Project Coordinator
China:
Beijing Software Enterprise Advisory Center (BSEAC)
Ms Laura Rampazzo
DRAGON-STAR Plus Project Manager at BSEAC
Mr Calven Luo
General Manager
China Science and Technology Exchange Center (CSTEC)
Ms DAI Le (Annie DAI)
Division of European Affairs