free encyclopedia jump to navigation search forum for european australian science and technology cooperation type non profit organisation founded 2002 headquarters canberra australia key people neil hamilton mark matthews rado faleti jean fran ois desvignes hicks website www.feast.org the forum for european australian science and technology cooperation feast was a non government initiative aimed at highlighting and developing collaborative research activities between europe european countries and the european union and australia . its offices were located in canberra australia . contents 1 funding 2 history 3 external links 4 other bilat and related projects funding edit the major sources of funding for feast were the european commission through the seventh framework programme and the australian government department of industry innovation science research and tertiary education . additional resources were also provided by the australian national university . history edit a meeting of the joint management committee of the european union and australia on science and technology cooperation was held in brussels in march 2000 within the framework of the 1994 agreement . one of the decisions made was to begin reflecting upon a target based approach based on a strategy and common priorities . in this context it was agreed in august 2000 by the diplomatic missions representing members of the european union in australia to embark on an initiative of the french presidency to be known as the forum for european australian science and technology feast . this initiative began in early 2002 and the first phase was completed in december 2004 . an external review was undertaken 1 recommending expansion of the feast concept to other countries and a continuation of feast in australia . after successful completion of its third round of funding in mid 2012 the fourth implementation was renamed connecting australian european science and innovation excellence caesie and placed a greater emphasis on innovation and business . external links edit feast official website caesie official website other bilat and related projects edit list of all current bilat projects abest a eu argentinean bureau for enhancing cooperation with the european community in the science technology and innovation area bb.bice brazilian bureau for enhancing the international cooperation with european union era can the european research area and canada chiep strengthen chilean european science and technology partnerships bilat silk bilateral support for the international linkage with china euinec european union and india enhanced cooperation framework for improved bilateral dialogue in the fields of science and technology j bilat bilat in japan era link japan a network for european researchers in japan kestcap korea eu science and technology cooperation advancement programme uemexcyt bureau for european and mexican science and technology cooperation m2era morocco to era frenz facilitating research co operation between europe and new zealand bilat rus enhancing the bilateral s & t partnership with the russian federation esastap strengthening the european south african science and technology advancement programme etc european tunisian cooperatio bilat usa bilateral coordination for the enhancement and development of s & t partnerships between the european union and the united states of america retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title forum for european australian science and technology cooperation & oldid 712474452 categories scientific organisations based in australiascience and technology in europescience and technology in australia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 29 march 2016 at 09 04 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view