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The priorities for scientific and technological development in the Eurasian Economic Union will be approved in the first quarter of 2022. After that the criteria for projects-symbols of Eurasian economic integration will be determined. This was agreed by the participants of the meeting of the Presidium of the Scientific and Technical Council under the Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission which took place on October 28 at the EEC headquarters in Moscow.Within the framework of the Strategic Directions for the Development of Eurasian Economic Integration until 2025 the implementation of which the Commission together with the Union states began in 2021 the members of the Scientific and Technical Council considered proposals on the priorities of the scientific and technological development of the Union.As the head of the EEC Board Chairman of the Scientific and Technical Council Mikhail Myasnikovich emphasized Eurasian priorities do not differ much from world trends. In this regard it was proposed to highlight not the industries but individual areas and pay special attention to those of them that can be implemented in the medium term until 2025.Priorities need to be crystallized out of the vast array of research that is underway in countries and then the development of scientific approaches to these priorities should be accelerated. It is advisable to pay special attention to applied research - said Mikhail Myasnikovich. I ask the countries to submit their proposals in November after which we will organize their expertise and in the first quarter of 2022 at the Commissions Board we will consider the issue of the priorities of scientific and technological development.According to the director of the Institute for Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Shirov today the EAEU countries are quite far behind global trends in funding research and scientific developments. In the world 1011 billion is spent annually for these purposes while the costs of all EAEU countries from all sources of funding amounted to only 18.2 billion in 2019 of which 96 fell on Russia.Each of the TOP-3 digital corporations in the world spends more on research than all the EAEU countries combined said Alexander Shirov. The EAEU countries are characterized by a low level of cost efficiency for research and development in the sense of their transformation into export expansion and economic growth.He proposed to include such activities as a number of areas of mechanical engineering chemical and petrochemical industries including pharmaceuticals metallurgy and production of building materials as priority ones.According to the Minister for Integration and Macroeconomics of the EEC Sergei Glazyev it is also advisable to include the key areas of the new world economic order such as bioengineering additive technologies and others as priorities.Determining the priorities of the scientific and technological development of the Union will allow to work out the priority steps to ensure the mapping of the scientific and technical potential of the Union. In this regard Andrei Klepach chief economist at VEB.RF expressed hope for the appearance in the Union of a program for financing scientific research and high-tech projects similar to those operating in other international organizations.The Scientific and Technical Council also considered the implementation of joint large-scale high-tech projects that can become symbols of integration.According to Sergei Glazyev it is necessary to accept the criteria that the project must meet in order to give the status of a symbol of Eurasian integration. The criteria for projects in the Russian Federation can be taken as a basis.The project should be based on the use of high-tech solutions confirmed by expertise. It should be a large-scale project of an economic or social nature. There should be participation of at least two states of the Union and best of all. Payback - no more than five years funding sources - no less than 20 of own funds. It is proposed to establish criteria for the participants as well experience financial capabilities absence of tax arrears residency of the member states noted Sergei Glazyev.Deputy Vice President for Regional Development and Cooperation with the CIS of the Skolkovo Foundation Alexander Okunev in turn voiced proposals for specific projects that can become symbols of integration. These are projects in the field of digital medicine agriculture energy and environmental protection which are already being implemented in the EAEU and are ready to transfer technology create jobs and form long-term cooperative ties.The participants in the meeting dwelled on the issue of voluntary labeling of goods and reviewed the experience of the company that introduced such labeling. In addition the Scientific and Technical Council discussed the concept of forming a National Research Computer Network of a New Generation NIKS within the EAEU and a draft agreement on scientific scientific technical and innovative cooperation between the EAEU states and other topics.
