ARMENIA ACTIVELY GETS USE OF WORLD COUNTRIES’ EXPERIENCE IN WORKING OUT CONCEPTION OF REFORMS IN SCIENCE

Arka News Agency, Armenia
Nov 6 2006

YEREVAN, November 6. /ARKA/. Armenia actively gets use of world
countries’ experience in working out conception of reforms in
science. On Friday RA Deputy Minister of Science and Education
Ara Avetisyan told journalists that elaboration of that conception
required both local research and existing materials, as well as models
of countries with great experience in that sphere.

He emphasized that In September 2006, two working groups of the
Interdepartmental Commission on carrying out reforms in Armenia’s
scientific sphere had been on Hungary and Chzecia, as well as in Greece
and Lithuania. When studying models of countries of Western Europe
and Baltic special attention is paid to mechanisms of administration
of science system, as well as types and amount of science financing",
he clarified and added that direct cooperation with those countries
was conditioned with wide and longstanding experience.

At the same time Avetisyan said that documentary materials and research
results of some countries of post-Soviet area, at the disposal of
the RA Ministry of Science and Education had been also taken into
consideration while working out the document.

He also informed that modern transformation of Prussian academic
model – one of the most spread in Europe and basis for systems of
reforms carried out in many countries, as well as models of Canada
and Israel had been reflected in the elaboration of the conception.

The conception of scientific reforms, under the control of the
Interdepartmental Commission, will be raised for public hearings in
November 2006. Confirmation of its final variant is scheduled for
January-February 2007.

A decision about carrying out reforms in the scientific sphere of
Armenia was made on July 24, 2006, during the meeting of the country’s
President Robert Kocharyan with Minister of Science and Education
Levon Lazarian. On August 18, the RA government has approved the
order of events within the framework of those reforms.