Yerevan hosts XXI meeting of the Interstate Council for Cooperation in Science, Technology and Innovation

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Yerevan hosts the XXI meeting of the Interstate Council for Cooperation in Science, Technology and Innovation (MC STI). The agenda of the meeting includes more than ten issues, including the implementation of the Interstate Program of Innovative Cooperation of the CIS Member States for the period up to 2020 and wider attraction of non-budgetary sources of financing for joint scientific and technical projects. In addition, it is planned to discuss the procedure for coordination and interaction in the field of science and technology of the NTI MS, the Eurasian Economic Commission, the Union State of Belarus and Russia and a work plan for the development of an Interstate Program for Innovative Cooperation of the CIS Member States for 2021 and subsequent years.

The implementation of pilot projects of the program, as well as projects of the second stage with the participation of organizations from three or more CIS member states, turned out to be difficult. For most of the projects, it was not possible to organize synchronous budgetary financing in terms of implementation time and in the required volumes. This was announced at the meeting by the Chairman of the MC STI, Chairman of the State Committee for Science and Technology Alexander Shumilin. “First of all, due to the presence of national differences in the procedure for financing the scientific sphere,” he said. In this regard, the Belarusian side also proposed to discuss the prospects for the formation of the CIS Venture Funding Fund on the example of the Belarusian-Russian Venture Funding Fund and the priority of developments with a high degree of readiness for commercialization in the selection of “second stage” projects.

The Interstate Council for Cooperation in Science, Technology and Innovation was established on November 20, 2009 by the decision of the Council of CIS Heads of Governments. Its functions include the coordination of scientific, technical and innovation policy in general and its individual components, the formation of financial and economic mechanisms in states to support joint programs and projects in this area. MS NTI is the Supervisory Board of the Interstate Program of Innovative Cooperation of the CIS Member States for the period up to 2020. The main goals and objectives of the Program: unification of the intellectual, scientific, technological, production and financial potential of the CIS member state

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