Article 31

In the context of the association, cooperation in the field of research and innovation may cover science, technology, including information and communication technologies, with the aim of contributing to the OCTs’ sustainable development and to promoting the OCTs’s role as regional hubs and centres of excellence as well as their industrial competitiveness. In particular, cooperation may concern: dialogue, coordination and creation of synergies between OCTs and Union policies and initiatives with regard to science, technology and innovation; policy and institutional building within OCTs and concerted actions at local, national or regional level, with a view to developing science, technology and innovation activities and their application; cooperation between legal entities from the OCTs, the Union, the Member States and the third countries; participation of individual OCTs researchers, research bodies and legal entities from OCTs in the framework for cooperation related to research and innovation programmes within the Union and the Programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and small and medium - size enterprises (COSME); and training and international mobility of OCTs researchers and exchange.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-02 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.