National strategies Iceland

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National strategies - Iceland

• Edda Lilja Sveinsdóttir
• icelandic repr. To the ESFRI working group

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• The Science and Technology Policy Council in
  Iceland
• Current work on defining areas of strength
  through foresight activities
• Based on the results, emphasis will be on
  research infrastructures in those specific areas

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• Preliminary identification of fields of strenght
• Health, bio, med
• Environment, natural sciences, energy, etc.
• Social sciences and humanities

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• Road map acitivities on RI started last year with
  the collection of information on data-banks.
• Further work on mapping databanks will continue
  this year and 2008.
• Next steps depend on the finalization of the work
  of the STPC on areas of strength. Expected to
  start later this year.