The Biocircle Roundtable on “Food, Agriculture, Fishery and Biotechnology”, a project under the 7th EU Framework Programme, was convened by China National Center for Biotechnology Development in Beijing. Leaders and experts from China-EU Cooperation Office of MOST, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science and China Agriculture University discussed the collaboration between China and EU in the future.

Through the in-depth discussions, all attendants agreed that greater attention should be given to: the planning of the cooperation framework and how to galvanize Chinese scientists to join the cooperation; platform building for biotechnology on the Chinese side so that Chinese institutes can participate the programme as a group; EU information upgrade and enhancement of negotiation and application writing skills of Chinese experts to increase the success rate of application.