Once a scientific powerhouse, Russia has experienced over the past 25 years a dramatic decline of its research and development capacities and is now lagging far behind other industrialized nations in terms of scientific output. And in the past year, Russia’s economy has suffered multiple blows, including Western sanctions following its annexation of Crimea from Ukraine and the collapse of …Detalii

The Russian Education and Science Minister has said Moscow will create a scheme to help increase the country’s participation in Horizon 2020. In an interview with the journal Nature, Dmitry Livanov said that Russia was planning support for researchers in potential areas of international collaboration in Horizon 2020, notably the Future and Emerging Technologies objective under the Excellent Science pillar, as …Detalii