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incrEAST предоставляет информацию о направлениях и целях международного сотрудничества в области науки и технологий между Грузией, странами ВЕСА, членами Евросоюза и ассоциированными странами и обеспечивает развивающуюся сеть для поддержки сотрудничества.
Scope of international co-operation in research comprises actually all fields of hard sciences and humanities, predominantly biotechnology and life sciences, physics and material sciences. As to co-operation in technology development it is relatively less intensive and quite limited especially in terms of number of jointly fulfilled projects.
The overall objective of the co-operation is to contribute to steady development of economy and knowledge based society by making Georgia the integral part of international S&T system. Other main objectives are: (i) introduction of best international practices in national S&T policy and management system; (ii) development of new generation of scientists of international standing; (iii) attraction of additional financial means from international programs and foundations (that is quite important in the present situation of insufficient funding of S&T from State budget and national businesses).
Co-operation of Georgia with EECA-countries is carried out mainly through the direct contacts of the universities and research organisations with their profile partner organisations. The data on such collaboration are not available.
In general, multilateral co-operation with EU-member states and associated countries is realised in the frame of EU FPs and INTAS programmes.
As to bilateral cooperation, Georgian researchers have taken part in Swiss R&D programme SCOPES (Scientific co-operation between Eastern Europe and Switzerland) as well as in the programme initiated (in 1999-2001 and 2003-2005) by Greece General Secretariat for Research and Technology (Ministry of Development) and Department of Science and Technology of Georgia (Ministry of Economy) to support implementation of joint projects in 3 priority fields: i) Information Communication Technologies, ii) Environment and iii) Cultural Heritage. One illustration of the co-operation with EU is a participation of representative group of Georgian scientists and engineers in ATLAS programme being implemented in CERN.
There are also examples of scientific cooperation with EU-member states and associated countries on the level of individual initiative of scientists and research organisations. On the basis of the Protocol for Scientific Collaboration, signed on June 2008, CNRS, and the Georgia National Science Foundation (GNSF) launch “CNRS-GNSF First Joint Call for Bilateral Research Projects.”
EU-funded co-operation encompasses such opportunities as FPs, INTAS programmes and TACIS (since 2007 European Neighbourhood Policy Instruments – ENPI).
In FP6 15 projects with participation of Georgian teams were granted, while at the time of its liquidation commencement INTAS has funded around 250 cooperative projects. TACIS has funded about 10 projects related to S&T of Georgia.
Important role in realisation of reforms of the country S&T has played EU funded project NTacis/2006/123052 ”Creating an effective model of science administration” implemented by Archimedes Foundation (Estonia) in 2006-2007 in co-operation with Georgian Ministry of Education and Science and GNSF.
According to available data on the participation of Georgia in FP7 projects the statistics is following: 
Further co-operations with EU will be held through the FP7 and ENPI as well as on the basis of bilateral joint activities with EU S&T institutes and foundations.
Co-operation with EECA will generally be of bilateral nature.
Currently GNSF is preparing a background for widening bilateral cooperation (jointly funded activities, programmes on exchanging experts and researchers, introduction of best practices, etc.) wit EU and EECA (e.g. currently the “CNRS-GNSF First Joint Call for Bilateral Research Projects“ is closed. After evaluation 3 succesful projects will be funded).
Source: GNSF
Last up-date: 26 November 2009
