Three Armenian scientific institutes involved in EU's FP7

On Monday, Armenia's National Academy of Sciences (NAS) hosted the launching ceremony of EU's Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7).

In the framework of FP7 ERA-WIDE Call for Proposals on Reinforcing cooperation with Europe's neighbors in the context of the European Research Area (ERA), announced by the European Commission in 2011, three Projects with coordination of the Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems, Institute for Physical Research, and Center for Ecological-Noosphere Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia have been approved for funding in the fields of information and communication technologies, ecology and physics.

The overall aims of the Projects are reinforcing capacities and scientific expertise of the above mentioned centers through strategic collaboration with 12 leading European research organizations and enterprises from Belgium, Germany, France, Ireland, Hungary, Switzerland, and United Kingdom; exchanging of research staff and setting up joint experiments; defining and elaborating long-time sustainable development strategy for above-mentioned Armenian research centers. The planned activities will eventually result in the promotion of closer scientific cooperation between EU and Armenia and will be a step forward in the direction of preparation of Armenia's future association to the Framework Programmes, as well as will improve their responses to the socio-economic needs of Armenia and of the region.