05.02.2024 | Chisinau, Moldova

EU – Moldova Research Committee meets for the first time

On the 5th of February 2013, the 1st Meeting of the EU-Moldova Research Committee was held on the premises of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova in Chisinau.

The Research Committee was created in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding between the European Union and the Republic of Moldova on the association of the Republic of Moldova to the Seventh Framework Programme for research and technological development of the European Union (2007-2013), signed on October 11, 2011.

The EU side was lead by Dr. Elisabeth Lipiatou, Head of Unit, European Neighborhood, Africa and Gulf, DG Research and Innovation. Also present at the meeting were Dr. Gediminas Ramanauskas, Policy Officer, European Eastern Neighborhood, DG Research & Innovation and Mr. Kaido Sirel, Head of Operation Section, the Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of Moldova.

The Moldovan side was lead by Acad. Gheorghe Duca, President of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova (ASM). The Delegation included representatives of ASM and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration.

The event provided the opportunity to make a preliminary assessment of Moldova’s performance as an associated country to FP7 and offered the occasion to discuss new forms and mechanisms of cooperation between Moldova and EU in the field of R&D.

In the context of their visit to Chisinau, the European experts also had bilateral meetings with Dr. Dr. Mihail Şleahtiţchi, Advisor to the President of the Republic of Moldova on culture, education and science, representatives of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Moldova, the Free University of Moldova and the University of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova.

Source: Academy of Sciences of Moldova