27.01.2010 [News]

Conclusions of 1st Policy Stakeholders Conference - 2nd event to be held in Moscow, April 2010

After the successful 1st Policy Stakeholders Conference "EU-EECA S&T cooperation - the way forward" in Athens, June 2009, IncoNet EECA now organizes a similar event in Moscow. The second in an upcoming series of Policy Stakeholders Conferences is titled "Best practices in S&T and Innovation policies" and will be embedded in the 11th annual HSE International Academic Conference, hosted by the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.

1st Policy Stakeholders Conference "EU-EECA S&T cooperation - the way forward", Athens, 16-17 June 2009

The conclusions of this event are now presented in a 12 page brochure, which can be downloaded from the right hand sidebar. It offers concrete recommendations on how to adress current and future challenges for S&T cooperation between the EU and Eatsern Europe/Central Asia and points out open questions that need further reflection.

For more information on the conference, please visit the respective news item and/or the IncoNet EECA Intranet (restricted to project participants).

2nd Policy Stalkeholders Conference "“Best practices in S&T and Innovation policies”, Moscow, 07-08 April 2010

Following the success of the first event, IncNet EECA currently organizes a similar conference, which will be held in Moscow in the frame of the 11th annual HSE International Academic Conference, entitled “Modernisation of the Economy: Productivity and the Human Factor” (6-8 April), which is the largest international conference in economics and social sciences in Russia, involving over 1,2 thousand participants, including the ministers, Nobel Prize winners, international organizations, research centres and universities from different countries world wide.

The IncoNet EECA section is supposed to focus on key issues such as priority setting (e.g. Foresight and roadmapping), institutional reforms in S&T (public R&D organizations, research evaluation, centres of excellence, academy-industry knowledge transfer, etc.), and policies for international S&T cooperation. The concluding session will be designed as a round-table on post-crisis policies for innovation-driven economic growth.

The working languages of the conference will be Russian and English - simultaneous translation will be available.

Interested experts and policy makers are invited to register until 15 February 2010.

For current information on this upcoming event, please visit the incrEAST calender. Programme updates will be posted there.

Downloads

Draft Programme

Registration Form

Invitation Application Form (for visa)

Contact

Ms. Olga Maximova
phone:  +7 495 621-2873
e-mail: omaximova@hse.ru

Links

Website of the 11th annual HSE International Academic Conference, entitled “Modernisation of the Economy: Productivity and the Human Factor”


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