Tatarstan deputy premier meets with EU project manager

Tatarstan’s deputy prime minister Boris Pavlov has today held a meeting with the EU’s FWC Commission 2007 – Lot n 5 project manager Karl-Heintz Jach.

Attendees at the meeting were the Russian Academy of Sciences’s innovative centre Chernogolovka executive director Tatiana Kolchanova and the Russian Chamber of Commerce's subcommittee chairman Victor Malai.

Issues related to cooperation between the EU and Tatarstan on implementing innovative programmes and projects, nanoindustry development and possible co-hosting of events, aimed to establish direct contacts between project developers and implementors, were examined in the course of the meeting.

Boris Pavlov remarked that cooperation between the EU and Tatarstan would enable creation of innovative joint ventures, allowing to enhance the real economy sector’s technological level, making it compliant with the present-day requirements.

In the conclusion of the meeting, an agreement was reached on continuance of joint efforts within the EU Indicative Programme on Cooperation with the Russian Federation in the fields of science and technology. The parties agreed on possible holding of a joint business forum in Kazan, to focus on three key areas: innovations in petrochemistry, machine building and nanotechnologies with a view to commercialise the results of scientific research and technology implementation.