Alignment Paper (no. 2)

The Alignment Papers will identify and suggest opportunities for alignment of bilateral funding and cooperation frameworks, and propose instruments to use for EU-China cooperation on sustainable urbanisation. The Alignment Papers will be based on a combination of bottom-up and top-down approaches that build upon the national settings but add a strategic discussion to achieve added value and not just compilation of local/national interests. The writing of the alignment papers will be led by FFG and UNNC, with contributions from NTNU. These partners will organise Alignment Workshops for further reflection and dissemination of the proposed strategies and instruments, discuss each draft Alignment Paper in a workshop with committed European and Chinese funding institutions for future EU-China STI cooperation, as well as with the EIP SCC Special Cooperation Group. The Alignment Papers will be matched with the draft Strategic R&I Roadmap to establish common ground and fine-tuned to reflect the specificities of the EU-China cooperation, based on the alignment approaches used by JPI Urban Europe and the European Commission.