International Cooperation

Collaboration with Russia

A Science & Technology Agreement was signed between the EU and Russia in 2000 and entered into force in 2001. A renewed agreement was signed on 6 November 2003, and entered into force on 20 February 2004.

IST Projects supporting EU-Russia co-operation

• The aim of project ADMIRE-P (A Dense Multilevel Network for ICT Research Co-operation between the EU and Privolzhsky Federal District) is to increase collaboration and success stories of co-operation in IST between European and the Russian research and industry of the Privolzhsky Federal District (PFD). This is achieved through building up, promoting and operating a multilevel network of regional centres within the PFD regional administrations, together with entity contact points in research organisations and industrial enterprises of the district with a record of advanced achievements in ICT. The project is coordinated by Singleimage Ltd. (UK) and involves in its consortium the University Nizhni Novgorod (UNN) as a full partner.
• The project ISTOK.Ru (Information Society Technologies to Open Knowledge.Russia) aims to identify constituencies and opportunities for deeper strategic cooperation with Russia and intends to screen and analyze common needs and opportunities by the rank mapping of all Russian ICT technologies relevant to co-operation and the cross-comparison with the European ICT taxonomy. The project coordinator is Inno AG (Germany) and the project includes in its consortium two Russian partners: the Institue of System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISPRAS) and the Russian Technology Transfer Network (RTTN).
• The project SITE (Siberia, Information Technologies and Europe) aims to increase cooperation between Russian and EU researchers in the area of the IST Priority. The project is coordinated by by Singleimage Ltd. (UK) and involves in its consortium the Association for Engineering Education of Russia as a full partner.
• The project RECIST (Russia-EU Communities in IST) aims to increase participation of Russian researchers (mainly from the Moscow and St Petersburg areas) in IST/ICT research proposals. The project coordinator is Singleimage Ltd. (UK).