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PM says governance relies on consultancy, expertise of scientific community in modernising Moldova

20:37 | 12.10.2017 Category: Official

Chisinau, 12 October /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Pavel Filip today had a meeting with the members of the Moldovan Academy of Sciences (ASM) and the university environment. The participants in the event discussed objectives and peculiarities of the reform of the national system of research and innovation, promoted by the cabinet, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.

The prime minister noted that the draft reform had at its basis recommendations by European experts, who assessed the national system of research and innovation and the changes promoted were meant to implement a new vision of the sector’s development. The PM specified that the reform would allow doubling the financial resources earmarked for research and development projects, from 157 million lei up to 340 million lei and the financing will be fulfilled based on contest. Private researchers, groups of researchers, universities and research institutions will be able to participate in the competition. ‘’We want to create better conditions, so that researchers have access to bigger funds. We rely on your consultancy and expertise in the process of Moldova’s modernization,’’ Pavel Filip said.  

The reform provides for the change of the way the research system is organized and managed. Thus, the research institutions, which are presently subordinated to ASM, will become independent and autonomous public institutions and the Education, Culture and Research Ministry will act as their founder. At the same time, the ministry will be in charge of the working out of policies in the sector, while the National Research and Development Agency, due to be subordinated to the government, will coordinate the process of their implementation and will establish priorities of financing and developing the science.  

‘’The Academy of Sciences must be a forum of the cleverest people, who form the visions of development of this state, consult and urge the government, but do not deal with the management of the patrimony,’’ Pavel Filip stressed.

Attending the meeting, Education, Culture and Research Minister Monica Babuc said that the change of the system was absolutely necessary. Babuc gave assurances that the good elements would be preserved and the defective or obsolete ones would be removed, so that the research projects are adjusted to the current needs.  

At the dialogue, the academicians welcomed the reform process and showed openness to participate in its carrying out. At the same time, the representatives of the scientific community highlighted the importance of working out of an efficient mechanism of implementing the reform and stressed the need to ensure transparency in the activity of the authorities in the research and innovation sector. Also, the representatives of the science tackled the issue of motivating young people to make a career in the science field.

In the end of the meeting, Prime Minister Pavel Filip urged the academicians to actively get involved in the process of elaborating documents of policies. He underlined that it was important that the reforms for the country’s development come from inside, from the ones who know the realities very well.

 

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