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RD in Lithuania Danguole Bubliene,Secretary,
Ministry of Education and Scienceof Lithuania

• 79th meeting of the JRC Board of Governors
• and Round Table Discussion
• Vilnius, June 16, 2006

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RD INSTITUTIONS IN LITHUANIA
Parliament

Commission on Science, Technology and Innovation
Development
Government
Other Ministries
Ministry of Education and Science
Ministry of Economy
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RD INSTITUTIONS IN LITHUANIA

• Policy implementing institutions and mediators
• Lithuanian State Science and Studies Foundation
• Agency for International Science and Technology
  Development Programmes
• Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education
• Other institutions

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Expertise/advisory bodies

• On governmental level -
• Science Council of Lithuania
• Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
• On non-governmental level -
• Lithuanian Universities Rectors Conference
• The Conference of Research Institute
  Directors
• Lithuanian Scientific Society

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RD INSTITUTIONS IN LITHUANIA
Science and research institutions - 15 public
and 6 private universities - 17 state research
institutes - 18 university research
institutes - 8 state research establishments
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Distribution of RD institutions over Lithuania
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Research priorities in Lithuania set in
accordance with the EU priorities

• Genomics and Biotechnology
• Food quality and Safety
• Ecosystem and Global Changes
• IT
• Nanotechnology
• Citizens and Governance in Knowledge based
  Society

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Lithuania is strong in

• biotechnology
• biochemistry
• chemistry
• mathematics
• physics (especially laser physics)
• power-engineering
• electronics and ICT

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Lithuanias participation in 56 FP

• 5th Framework programme
• (1999 2002) - EUR 10.4 million
• 6th Framework programme
• (2002 2006) - EUR 20 million
• (as of May, 2006)

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Lithuanian participation proportion of
applications, retained projects and contracts
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Overall expenditures on RD

• 2004 in total 472,7 mln Lt (137 mln )
• 63,1 - from governmental sources
• 10,7 - from foreign investments
• 6 - from higher education
• 19,9 - from business
• 0,3 - from private non-commercial
  entreprises

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Legal instruments

• The State Strategy for Education (2003-2012)
• State Long-term Development Strategy by 2015
  (2002)
• Long-term Development strategy for Lithuanian
  Economy (2002)
• National Programme for the Implementation of the
  Lisbon strategy (2005)
• Higher Education Development Plan 2006-2010

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Future prospects

• To reorganize the governance and the funding
  system of RD
• To facilitate the co-operation of science and
  industry
• To renovate the infrastructure of research and
  studies institutions

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To reorganize the governance and the funding
system of RD

• to introduce tender- and programme-based funding
  system for research
• to fund the most important developments both in
  high-level research (Centres of excellence) and
  in co-operation with research and industry
• to implement a new system of grants for young
  scientists
• to restructure Science Council of Lithuania into
  a Research Council

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To facilitate the co-operation between
science and industry

• to introduce different support instruments for
  enterprises investing into research
• to promote researchers to get involved into
  consultancy for industry

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To renovate the infrastructure of research
and studies institutions

• to concentrate investment into particular
  research centres
• to identify the strategic research investment
  projects
• Sunrise Valley, Visoriai centre in Vilnius,
  similar entities in Kaunas and Klaipeda regions

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