Event Review: “Why Invest in Science in South Eastern Europe?”
By Ms. Elke DALL on Nov 13, 2006
Status: Public
In the eJournal fall 06 an event review was published.
The successful conference “Why invest in Science in South Eastern Europe?” confirmed the interrelation between investments in science and knowledge and socio-economic development in general in South East European countries. The participants came from a wide range of actors in the field – from local and independent experts in science and technology policy to representatives of Ministries for Science and Finance, from international institutions such as UNESCO, World Bank, WIPO, UNIDO to initiatives such as see-era.net, the Stability Pact for SEE. They discussed the current state-of-the-art and research results providing an overview on the region. Encouraging presentations were also held by Commissioner Janez Potočnik and Assistant Director-General at the UNESCO Walter Erdelen. The concluding high-level Round Table resulted in a final communiqué, which is – as well as all presentations given – available on the conference website. The communiqué calls for support to the South East European countries in the development and the implementation of quality science, technology and innovation policies and STI systems. The participating ministers and representatives hope for a successful follow-up. (ed)
Article published in eJournal fall 2006.
The link to the speech of Janez Potocnik is provided on /doc/531.html.