Nunu Mitskevich continues working meetings with scientists to develop science development policy
Within the framework of higher education and science reform, Deputy Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Georgia Nunu Mitskevich held intensive meetings with representatives of the scientific-research institutions subordinate to the Ministry, the purpose of which was to get acquainted with their scientific achievements and identify their needs.
In the process of developing science development policy, one of the main goals of the Ministry is to define priority directions and identify successful scientific groups, on the basis of which the science funding policy will be reviewed and methods for supporting scientists will be developed. For this purpose, meetings were held with representatives of the following scientific-research institutions:
- Georgian Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- George Eliava Institute of Bacteriophage, Microbiology and Virology
- Ivane Beritashvili Center of Experimental Biomedicine
- Korneli Kekelidze National Centre of Manuscripts
- G. Chubinashvili National Research Centre for Georgian Art History and Heritage Preservation
At the meetings, scientists presented the main results of recent years and the scientific achievements of 2019, and also highlighted the needs, including in terms of infrastructure, which are necessary for conducting full-fledged scientific research.
Nunu Mitskevich provided the representatives of the scientific-research institutions with information about the new results-based funding model for higher education, in which the share of science funding will significantly increase. The refinement of the model is underway with the active involvement of educational and scientific institutions. In addition, the Deputy Minister introduced the scientists to the EU's upcoming framework programme Horizon Europe and the mechanisms for improving the participation success rate of Georgian universities and scientific-research institutions in it.
With the aim of developing higher education and science policy and refining the new funding model, working meetings have already been held with the heads of four state universities and the scientific-research institutes subordinate to them.
