EU to support science in Armenia (video)
In order to increase the awareness of the European Union’s Research and Innovations “Horizon-2020” program in Armenia, today a symposium dedicated to the program has been held in Yerevan. The agreement of Armenia’s associated membership in the program was signed in May, 2016 in Brussels. The agreement will grant an opportunity to our scientific-research institutions, universities, small and medium enterprises and private scientists to fully make use of the program’s opportunities under the conditions intended for the EU member states. At the opening ceremony of the symposium Samvel Harutyunyan, Chairman of the State Committee on Science of the RA Ministry of Science and Education, EU Ambassador to Armenia Piotr Switalski and the RA NAS Deputy Chairman Yuri Shukuryan made welcome speeches. The overall budget of Horizon-2020 makes up about EUR 80 billion. Vardan Sahakyan, Head of the Division for Science Policy of the State Committee on Science of the RA Ministry of Science and Education, noted in his speech that the program is also going to finance private scientific projects, “The financing of the science is implemented in three main ways- first, base financing, second- targeted and the third- thematic. Only state scientific projects are financed by base financing. The private sector is financed by the targeted and thematic fund. Currently 5 out of 12 financed projects belong to private sector,” he noted.
