Cooperation, joint funding and actions, EU programming and projects

The Joint Programming Initiative JPI Oceans is a European Member States driven initiative adopted by the Council in 2011, with 21 EU states participating and the Commission as an observer. It aims at coordinating the national research programmes for providing solutions to tackle marine and maritime challenges.

P.F. Moretti has been assigned to the Secretariat from the very beginning and as national representative at the decision board too. He mainly dealt with aspects of trans-national cooperation, in particular with the so-called Framework Conditions. These are all the aspects related to the types of actions and tools that can facilitate cooperation between stakeholders from different countries, addressing inter-operability, conflicts of interest, feasibility, impacts and evaluation. In this regard, this regard, he tackled the problem of the cooperation process from a complex cognitive systems point of view and introduced innovative aspects such as the support of research to interventions for emergencies at sea, the coordination of bilateral agreements, efficiency in joint funding and sharing of infrastructures. This approach was then realized in a concrete tool to facilitate cooperation in terms of selection, planning and implementation of actions. He coordinates for the Secretariat the joint action Munitions in the Sea, with 13 EU states on board and lead by Italy, to support and provide innovative solutions from research and technology. It has been mandated as representative of JPI Oceans to the EU project "JPI to co-work" to deal with for the common aspects of joint programming. He has been invited by the Estonian Government to present the JPIs in order to support their decision in entering the EU process. 

P.F. Moretti has participated, also with the role of Italian coordinator or project manager, to many different European projects.

He has been appointed by the Italian Minister of Education and Research as one of the two Italian experts for marine and maritime aspects to the Programme Committee for the Societal Challenge 2 of Horizon 2020 named "European Bioeconomy Challenges: Food Security, Sustainable Agricolture and Forestry, Marine and Maritime and Inland Water Research".

P.F. Moretti et al., 2013, “Proposal for procedures for design and management of joint actions”

P.F. Moretti, L. Mazari, "Coordinating European national research programmes: the process towards Joint Programming Initiatives", ISSN 2239-5172, DTA 10-2012