This was the 2nd Policy Stakeholders Conference (PSC) organised by the IncoNet CA project and the 4th in a series of events targeting Central Asia,which was started by its predecessor project IncoNet CA/SC. This year’s focus was on ‘energy’, a topic high on the political agenda of both the European Union and Central Asia. The PSC took place on 30 Sep – 1 Oct 2015 in Astana, a workshop on ‘EU-Kazakhstan Innovation Cooperation’ on 2 Oct was also open to the PSC participants.
INNOVER-EAST held its 1st Policy Event on 8 July 2015 in Yerevan at the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia to present the first results of the national studies on energy efficiency innovation and its bottlenecks – compiled by the project.
The second Stakeholders’ Forum of the project BILAT-UKR*AINA under the title Enhancing Ukraine’s Competitiveness in RI on the way to the Association to Horizon 2020 aims to provide a forum for Ukrainian and EU stakeholders to facilitate the exchange of good and transferable practices and defining common interests.
The Policy Stakeholders Conference (PSC) on ‘EU-Central Asia STI Cooperation in addressing Climate Change’, hosted by the Parliament of the Kyrgyz Republic and the National Library of Kyrgyzstan, was held in Bishkek on 23-24 September 2014. It was the first in a series of policy dialogue activities between the EU and CA organised under the IncoNet CA project.
From 03 to 04 February 2014 the Palais Ferstl in Vienna hosted the kick-off meeting for the DANUBE-INCO.NET project. These two days offered the chance for the project partners to meet for the first time face-to-face to celebrate the official launch of the project on January, 1st 2014 on the one hand; on the other hand to hold first working sessions on the upcoming project tasks.