On 27-28 June 2016, the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation hosted an international workshop on the 'Eastern Partnership Science, Technology and Innovation Evaluation Platform'. The event was planned as part of the IncoNet EaP Project. The main goal of the platform is to facilitate the exchange among the participating organisations exploring the potential of evaluation in the STI domain and to set concrete actions that facilitate learning from current practice and improved utilization of the potential of STI evaluation.

 

The core objective is to allow the sharing of experiences in the Eastern Partnership countries and learning from existing practice in EU Member States or in/with other relevant world regions.

 

As part of the workshop, a Memorandum of Understanding on establishing the 'Eastern Partnership Regional Platform on STI Evaluation' was signed. The purpose of this memorandum is to express the availability and the commitment of each of the signing parties to participate in joint activities which aim to create a regional Eastern Partnership platform on science, technology, and innovation evaluation.

 

The audience of the workshop consisted of representatives from each of 6 Eastern Partnership countries, a small number of IncoNet EaP partners and invited external speakers who shared recent experience.