Science Policy

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Grid: the Key to Scientific Collaboration

UNESCO assists its Member States in formulating their S&T policies, strategies and plans as well as in the reform of their S&T systems by bringing to light policy options for the governance of S&T systems in the new context, supporting participatory policy formulation and/or reviews to improve the management of S&T effort at the national level.

This is done by means of providing guidelines and methodologies, technical advice and guidance on formulation, implementation, monitoring, and a review of policies and plans concerning national S&T activities.

Reconstructing the Science Systems in SEE

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SEE Scientists at the first Grid Computing project review meeting in 2004

For the past decade, the ‘Venice process’ has been rebuilding scientific cooperation among Southeast European countries. Named after the Italian city which hosts UNESCO’s Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, the Venice Process has dual aims: on the one hand, it sets out to heal some of the wounds inflicted by the violent break-up in the 1990s of the former Yugoslavia, once a major player in European science; in parallel, the Venice Process sets out to build scientific cooperation between the sub-region and the rest of Europe, in order to prepare countries for integration into the European Research Area. - More

Ministerial conferences on science and research in Southeastern Europe

Since 2001, the following ministerial conferences have been held :

  • 2010 (Tirana, Albania) High-level Round Table and Expert Meeting on Strengthening Research and Higher Education in South Eastern Europe. From Bilateral to Pan-European Cooperation
  • 2008 (Budva, Montenegro) High-level Round Table at the Science, Higher Education and Innovation Policy Forum
  • 2007 (Bucharest and Tulcea, Romania) Science Policy Forum on Science for the Future, Science for Society. The Parliamentary Perspective
  • 2007  (Chisinau, Republic of Moldova) International Conference on Global Science and National Policies. The Role of Academies
  • 2006 (Ljubljana, Slovenia) High-level Round Table and International Conference on Why Invest in Science in South Eastern Europe?
  • 2001  (UNESCO, Paris) Round Table of Ministers of Science

Science Policy Studies series

In recent years, the Venice Office has published a series of monographs on science in South East Europe within UNESCO’s Science Policy Studies series.

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