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ARMENIA TO INTENSIFY ITS COOPERATION WITH RUSSIA'S SKOLKOVO IN 2014
YEREVAN, January 22. /ARKA/. Armenia is intensifying its cooperation
with Russian Skolkovo innovation center in 2014, said Samvel
Harutiunyan, head of the state committee on science, Armenia's ministry
of education and science.
According to an agreement signed with Skolkovo Foundation in April
2013, Armenia will actively develop its cooperation on innovations
with Russian partners in 2014.
A program of cooperation in innovations 2020 is implemented by Skolkovo
within CIS, the head of the committee said.
"I believe, bearing in mind Armenia's intention to join the Customs
Union, our cooperation with Skolkovo will intensify, and funding
will be provided for part of the programs proposed by Armenia",
Harutiunyan said.
In particular, he said, some 40 projects were presented by Armenia
in 2013, five of them, mainly in physics, chemistry and biology,
were approved. Harutiunyan expressed hopes funding will start as
early as this year.
The money will be allocated by a new fund comprised of CIS countries,
but main part of the funding, about 80-85%, will be provided by the
Russian side, Harutiunyan said. -0-
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YEREVAN, January 22. /ARKA/. Armenia is intensifying its cooperation
with Russian Skolkovo innovation center in 2014, said Samvel
Harutiunyan, head of the state committee on science, Armenia's ministry
of education and science.
According to an agreement signed with Skolkovo Foundation in April
2013, Armenia will actively develop its cooperation on innovations
with Russian partners in 2014.
A program of cooperation in innovations 2020 is implemented by Skolkovo
within CIS, the head of the committee said.
"I believe, bearing in mind Armenia's intention to join the Customs
Union, our cooperation with Skolkovo will intensify, and funding
will be provided for part of the programs proposed by Armenia",
Harutiunyan said.
In particular, he said, some 40 projects were presented by Armenia
in 2013, five of them, mainly in physics, chemistry and biology,
were approved. Harutiunyan expressed hopes funding will start as
early as this year.
The money will be allocated by a new fund comprised of CIS countries,
but main part of the funding, about 80-85%, will be provided by the
Russian side, Harutiunyan said. -0-
- See more at:
http://arka.am/en/news/society/armenia_to_intensify_its_cooperation_with_russia_s _skolkovo_in_2014/#sthash.ELQH0tA8.dpuf