SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Round table

PROSPECTS OF IMPLEMENTING COOPERATIVE PROJECTS IN THE FIELD OF SCIENCE

AND TECHNOLOGY TO BUILD A EURASIAN INNOVATION AREA

15 April 2021, 10:15 – 11:45

LANGUAGE

Russian

Moderators: Tatyana Meshkova, Director of the Competence Centre for Cooperation with International Organisations (ISSEK, HSE University), Vladimir Pereboev, Head of a Research Direction at the Centre for Integration Studies (Eurasian Development Bank)

Strategic Directions for Developing the Eurasian Economic Integration until 2025 features the goal of revitalising and building scientific and technological capacities in the Union. EAEU member countries are endowed with a vast potential in the field of science and technology for deeper STI integration, e.g. carrying out joint projects and research, developing product single market, capital and workforce.

This round table aims to discuss single EAEU scientific and technological policy, its priorities and innovative activity. Participants will deliberate over promising directions for joint research and innovation projects, approaches towards establishing a system of effective management and funding of joint cooperative projects, prospects of building a system of foresight and strategic planning of scientific and technological as well as economic development in the EAEU.

Opening remarks:

Natalia Bocharova, Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (tbc)
Artak Kamalyan, Eurasian Economic Commission (tbc)

Topics for discussion:

Possible ways and tools of making a breakthrough in high-tech areas
Towards first Eurasian corporations
The role of financial and development institutions in promoting STI integration
Human resources make the difference: developing scientific capacity, boosting horizontal cooperation between EAEU scientific centres
Priority Eurasian cooperative STI projects: from vision to action
Best STI cooperation practices and ways of integrating EAEU into the global scientific landscape
Prospects of drafting an international agreement on STI cooperation in the EAEU
Tools to support academic mobility and cooperation among research institutions
Foresight for international STI cooperation
Opportunities for interregional and cluster-based cooperation in EAEU

Discussants:

Askhat Aimagambetov, Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan (tbc)
Almazbek Beishenaliev, Minister of Education and Science, Kyrgyz Republic (tbc)
Igor Ganshin, Director of the Department for International Cooperation, Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (tbc)
Sergey Ignatov, Head of the Directorate for Industries, Eurasian Development Bank (tbc)
Igor Karpenko, Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus (tbc)
Philip Kazin, HSE University, Russia
Arevik Khnkoyan, Science Committee, Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of the Republic of Armenia (tbc)
Maxim Khomyakov, University of Central Asia
Nikolay Kushnarev, Director of the Industrial Policy Department, Eurasian Economic Commission (tbc)
Evgeniy Kutsenko, HSE University, Russia
Alexander Sokolov, Deputy Director of the Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge, Director of the Foresight Centre, HSE University

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