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MEETING OF ISTC BOARD OF DIRECTORS TO TAKE PLACE IN YEREVAN IN JUNE
Noyan Tapan
Apr 27 2006
YEREVAN, APRIL 27, NOYAN TAPAN. A meeting of the Board of Directors
of the International Scientific and Technical Center (ISTC) will
take place in Yerevan in June, during which 14 grant programs to be
submitted by various scientific research institutions of Armenia
will be discussed. Director of the ISTC Armenian Regional Branch
Hamlet Navasardian told NT correspondent about it. According to him,
4 Armenian programs were approved at the last meeting of the ISTC
Board of Directors held in Moscow on March 30. Thus, the number
of Armenian programs financed by the center reached 123, with the
total amount of financing making 25.5 mln dollars. The ISTC is
financing 2,318 grant programs of the total amount of 712 mln USD,
which were submitted by scientific institutions of Russia, Belarus,
Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrghyzstan and Tadzhikistan. H. Navasardian
said that Armenia is in third place after Russia and Kazakhstan by
the amount of financing. 14% of the funds for Armenian programs has
been allocated to biology and sciences on life, 18% - to physics, 15%
- for synthesis of new substances and 13% - to chemistry. To recap,
the ITSC was established in 1992 by the European Union, Russia, the
US and Japan with the aim of using the potentail of CIS countries'
scientists, who were previously engaged in development of arms,
for peaceful purposes. Later South Korea, Canada and Norway joined
the ITSC.
Noyan Tapan
Apr 27 2006
YEREVAN, APRIL 27, NOYAN TAPAN. A meeting of the Board of Directors
of the International Scientific and Technical Center (ISTC) will
take place in Yerevan in June, during which 14 grant programs to be
submitted by various scientific research institutions of Armenia
will be discussed. Director of the ISTC Armenian Regional Branch
Hamlet Navasardian told NT correspondent about it. According to him,
4 Armenian programs were approved at the last meeting of the ISTC
Board of Directors held in Moscow on March 30. Thus, the number
of Armenian programs financed by the center reached 123, with the
total amount of financing making 25.5 mln dollars. The ISTC is
financing 2,318 grant programs of the total amount of 712 mln USD,
which were submitted by scientific institutions of Russia, Belarus,
Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrghyzstan and Tadzhikistan. H. Navasardian
said that Armenia is in third place after Russia and Kazakhstan by
the amount of financing. 14% of the funds for Armenian programs has
been allocated to biology and sciences on life, 18% - to physics, 15%
- for synthesis of new substances and 13% - to chemistry. To recap,
the ITSC was established in 1992 by the European Union, Russia, the
US and Japan with the aim of using the potentail of CIS countries'
scientists, who were previously engaged in development of arms,
for peaceful purposes. Later South Korea, Canada and Norway joined
the ITSC.