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S&T Policy Mix Peer Review site visits to Moldova and Kazakhstan successfully concluded

11. Apr 2012

S&T Policy Mix Peer Reviews to Moldova and Kazakhstan

The site visits to Moldova and Kazakhstan carried out by international expert teams for reviewing the S&T Policy Mixes in both countries have been successfully concluded. Both S&T Policy Mix Peer Reviews are implemented under the INCO-NET EECA project, which is funded by the European Commission (FP7).

The Peer Review team to Kazakhstan, which is headed by Manfred Horvat, includes the following experts:

  • Mr. Jean-Luc Clement, Adviser on research affairs, French Ministry of Higher Education and Research
  • Ms. Margit Harjung, Deputy Head of Unit for Research and Technology Funding, Austrian Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology
  • Ms. Kirsten Kienzler, International Office of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research at DLR
  • Mr. Zygmunt Krasiński, Deputy Director of National Contact Point for Research Programmes of the EU in Poland, Polish Academy of Sciences
  • Mr. Vardan Sahakyan, Head of Science Policy Department, State Committee of Science of the Republic of Armenia
  • Mr. Michael Schlicht, Head of Department for Cooperation with Russia and CIS, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research

The Peer Review team to Moldova, which is headed by Manfred Spiesberger (ZSI), includes the following experts:

  • Mr. Anatoly Hryshanovich, Deputy Executive Director, Belarusian Innovation Fund
  • Ms. Kirsten Kienzler, International Office of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research at DLR
  • Mr. Toivo Räim, Advisor at the Department of Research Policy, Ministry of Education and Research of the Republic of Estonia
  • Ms. Johanna Ringhofer, Deputy Head of Unit for EU-Research Policy and Co-ordination, AustrianFederal Ministry of Science and Research
  • Ms. Agni Spilioti, Director, Directorate for the support of Research Programmes (and for International S&T cooperation in the past), General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT)

The site visits were organised by the Academy of Sciences of Moldova and the Kazakh National Innovation Fund as well as InExCB-Kz (the Independent Expert Consulting Board to Promote Scientific Research Activity in Kazakhstan) together with ZSI.

The task of the Peers is to draft a report on the following dimensions reviewed under this exercise:

  • human resources in S&T,
  • public science base,
  • business R&D and innovation,
  • and economic and market development.

This report will be feed backed by the hosts in Kazakhstan and Moldova and in its final shape presented during a specific event format proposed and organized by the host country in agreement with the peers.

The final report is due in June 2012.

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