incrEAST provides information about the scope and objectives of international co-operation in research, science and technology between Kyrgyzstan and EECA countries, EU Member States and associated countries as well as about further opportunities for enhanced networking.
The main component in the state research policy is the international research co-operation.
The Kyrgyz Republic accomplishes an international co-operation in several directions:
First of all, activities in the frames of inter-academicians, inter-ministry, systems-associations, and boards; Secondly: co-operation with concrete research- and international organizations, locally and abroad.
Thirdly: contacts on the institutional levels and other divisions of the NAS KR and MSE of KR.
Definite attention is paid to recreation of the co-operative ties with the CIS countries, in accordance with modern realities, keeping research schools, and the joint usage of unique scientific objects and buildings.
Concordance of the research policy, in the frames of CIS, must foreseen the definition of the priority directions of co-operation, achievements, and the united standards and methodology in organizations of researches, harmonization in the national laws, in the sphere of science, and full usage of infrastructures and recourses.
In the field of innovative activities, an international co-operation is oriented for getting commercial effects. In the conditions of lack of recourses and fall of the internal necessities in scientific labs, subjects of scientific and innovative spheres, they themselves bare looking forward to develop external economic ties. So, international contacts develop in the condition of the decrease of state influence and control, of such activities. Foreign investments are uncontrollably used in the areas of science, unqualified trade of technologies, “know-how”, and other objects of intellectual properties.
External economic activities are often being hampered, or stopped altogether, by either, some, or all of following problem-areas : not solved organizational problems, non-flexible tax policies, under- or undeveloped infrastructure, lack of experience, lack of specialists and/or specialized systems, and the divisions of staff of research organizations. For the solution of these problems, it is necessary to develop a system of training managers on international levels, for innovative activities, for keeping measures to supply patent (and other), and for the security of intellectual property.
One of the perspective ways to develop science and elaborating new technologies, is the widening of international scientific ties, and the strengthening of current ones.
The amount of Grant-support allowed conducting field works. Supply labs with up-to date equipments, to attract young researchers and to take part in international congresses, symposiums, conferences and seminars.
Projects to attract investments include researches on ecological pollution and underground waters, system elaboration to rule the water-spread system, inculcation to the market of biogas equipments, an mountaineer technique, elaboration of the system of control and usage of electric power, evaluation of a landslide risk in the regions of dislocation of hydro-technique constructions, etc.
A bright sample of the successful international co-operation, is the creation of, according to the International Research and Technical Center, a radio-physic observatory on the lake Issyk-Kul, to receive operative information of the condition of the ozone-level, above the whole region of Central Asia. There are already preliminary agreements, on including this observatory into a world-wide net on the monitoring of the atmosphere.
Last year, several successful developing projects on the monitoring- and prevention of epidemics of the most dangerous infections in human beings and animals, received more than 1 million dollars in funds.
Above was given an information about joint research projects, conducted on the basis of foreign grants and, because of it, our scientists became co-actors of these international projects, such as “Keeping the monuments of the Great Silk Road”, “Composition of specialized geological, geo-physical, and mineral–genetic maps of Central Eurasia”, “Geo-dynamics and geo-ecological problems of the high mountains of Tyan Shan”, International geological correlative program “Gold, silver, telluric and selenium consisting mines”. Our scientists worked closely with, and co-operated with RAN and SO RAN, the Ural State Technical University, the Islam Philosophical Society (Turkey), as well as diverse research centers and universities of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Meaningful and strong international research ties and relations were built in this atmosphere of archeology and ethnography, with scientists of the Russian Academy of Science in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yakutia, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan, and of the International Institute of Central Asian researches in Samarqand.
In the process of working out the steps of co-operation with NATO, in the frames of SEAP/PRM, Kyrgyzstan pays great attention to the non-military sector. This direction is seen as a priority and is especial noticeable through the acts of communication, out of military involvement. Through the development of practical ties with scientific committees of NATO, and scientists of NAS KR, parts in three different research projects, under the label of this organization, have been taken, thus strengthening the relations with the committees, in accord of the calls of modern society.
Nowadays, in the KR NAS’s center, the Agency is looking closely into possible problems, their solving and preventions, to, in the end, will supply a constant exchange of information about current measures of the Agency, of which all scholars can take part.
The international project “Virtual Silk Speed Road”, is a easy tool for scholars to access and enter into the scientific and educational institutions of KR, the European research nets and internet. This project is created and directed for the support of academic communities in Central Asia and Caucasus. It also supplies an access to the informative recourses of the NATO countries, together with the necessary telecommunication infrastructure of scientific- and educational computer nets, and it reduces expenditures for an internet in the country.
Also are in existence projects of the program “Science for peace”, which is directed to transfer in inculcation, the scientific achievements into industry, to help strengthening the safety in our region, and to serve for integration in the fields of science and education with NATO countries.
With the help of the administration of the NATO Committee and, in accordance to the calls of modern society, a practical realization of the experimental project “Solution of the ecological problems in the aim of firm development in the countries of Central Asia” had been started.
Researches, with the help of the EU, and University funds from Zurich, Velix, Carl Popper, Swiss National Scientific Fund, Kirles, and the Government of Norway and the Christensen Foundation, were conducted.
In the frame-work of the Program of “Farm agrar-variety in Central Asia”, sponsored by the UNEP/GEF, and in accordance of the Project of the IPGRI International Institute of genetic recourse of the plants (Rome, Italy), more than 25 forms of wild fruit cultures, for further usage in the selective works, were being gathered.
At the project “Elaboration, spread and inculcation of the normative rules to collect the wildly growing berries, in accord to International practice”, with the support of the Program for smaller grants of the UNEP/GEF, and the project “Convention”, of GTC and the UN, which is about the land-flee of Central Asia and its constructive measures for its reverse, were discussed together with some local and foreign specialists. Also, during those discussions, some normative rules were worked-out, to collect wildly growing berries and herbs”.
By the project ISTC KR-964 “Detoxicants of the complex influence on the basis of gummous substances”, were the detoxification-qualities of the gummous acids in the coal of Kara-Keche and Kizil Kia, in the relation to the hard metals, was discussed and researched, and the neutralizing and rendering action of detoxicants was discovered.
The works, done by our scientists, received wide support, in the form of grants from different international research funds, such as ISTC, IAEA, and other diverse programs and organizations of the EU. The most noticeable and widely acknowledged projects are:
Of the recognition by the international communities, of the high qualifications of our scholars, speaks the following fact that, in 2006, NAS was included into the elaboration of the State-program “Between States”, of the Eurasian economic communities, as being the seventh, out of eight priority directions.
Kyrgyz Scholars are also in co-operation with the scientific centers and universities of France, Germany, Belgium. Finland. Great Britain, Holland and the French Research Institute in Tashkent, the CNRS of France, and continued work with UNESCO and UNDP.
- Universal algebra and the theory of cells, of the Mathematics Institute, INTAS.
Further co-operation
We are greatly interested in the creation on the territory of Kyrgyzstan, in joint with foreign companies of research and innovative-technological systems, and participation of venture capital, which will supply interested Kyrgyz and foreign participants in international, innovative co-action, for effective practice of normative- and agreement-based, two-sided and multi-sided, international research co-operation.
Ministries, branches, and territorial organizations of the Kyrgyz Republic, give the possibility for the realization of the conceptions, in the areas of organizing the infrastructure for the national innovative system(innovative institutes, industrial parks, business-incubators, ventured and innovative funds, innovative-technological zones etc.,), of the different branches and regions.
International co-operation must be widely used, as in the areas of staff-training in the research and technical complex, the creation of the united scientific, technical and informative spaces, within the frame of CIS, and the sharing of propaganda abroad, for and of the achievements of the native science.
Source: NLKR
Last up-date: 18 October 2010
