International Forum "Innovations.CIS.Future" due in Dubna - Moscow
Baku, April 4 (AZERTAC). The International Innovative Nanotechnology Center of the CIS countries (InINCIS) and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) supported by the Intergovernmental Foundation for Educational, Scientific and Cultural Cooperation (IFESCC) will organize the International Forum “Innovations. CIS. Future”, which is to take place in Dubna and Moscow on April 4 - 5, 2012.
The Forum is divided into 2 events - Spring Forum Event and Fall Forum Event of 2012.
The aim of the first event (April, 4-5) is to work out the measures of defining the Model of innovation governance within the CIS space.
A working group - Think Tank - will be launched at the Forum which will bring together the Forum participants from all CIS countries as well as the heads of industrial and professional associations involved in Russia’s innovative development.
The second event (October 2012) will sum up the work results of the previous months and give recommendations to the governments, intergovernmental organizations and institutions that manage innovations in the CIS countries and the Eurasian Union.
The event will gather together representatives from the CIS countries including Azerbaijan, the Presidential Administration and the Government of the Russian Federation, the Government of the Moscow Region, the CIS Executive Committee, the International Association of Academies of Sciences, Representatives of scientific and educational centers, leading public and private corporations involved in the field of high technologies, guest speakers from international scientific and innovative organizations of the European Union, as well as representatives of online communities; business, broadsheet and internet journalists, young scientists and specialists.
The Forum is aimed to integrate the research and innovative activities in the CIS, to promote the mobility of the youth, to attract innovative projects from the CIS, and to develop skills related to technology commercialization. The Forum will help identify the key technologies and social and economic forces that influence the existing lifestyle, and name possible development scenarios, risks, vectors of innovations and their limits within the CIS.
The forum will also end works of the road show “CIS: Partnership in Innovations” hosted by the Baku State University (Azerbaijan) last year in December and in Kiev on March 12 - 14, 2012 organized by the State Agency on Science, Innovation and Informatization of Ukraine under the auspices of the Intergovernmental Foundation for Educational, Scientific and Cultural Cooperation.