font-weight: bold;; overflow: hidden representatives “> EURECA consortium at the ceremony to launch the program at the American Councils for International Education in Washington, DC ( from left to right): Dan E. Davidson, President, American Councils for International Education, the Honourable James E. Collins, Chairman, USRF; Gennadievitch Igor Protsenko, deputy director of International Integration, Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Mark G. Pomar, President, USRF, John C. Vaughn, executive vice president, Association of American Universities, Vadimovich Andrey Kortunov, president, New Eurasia Foundation, Bob Huber, President of the Council National Eurasian and East European Research

Washington, DC (BUSINESS WIRE) October 11, 2010

Today, a consortium of Russian – New Eurasia Foundation (FNE) and two American NGOs – American Council on Education International: ACTR / ACCEL and the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEE), the Sub Branch of the Russian-American Foundation (USRF), announced the launch of a multi-year initiative to strengthen university research and entrepreneurial capacity (EURECA) program. The program aims to strengthen the Russian National Research Universitiesâ? (NRU) ability to commercialize their research results and promotion of entrepreneurial activity on campus. The program is in Russia and the United States by the American Board FNE NCEE and managed.

“Over the past two years, Russia has taken several steps in the critical transition to a knowledge economy,” Dan E. Davidson, President of the Councils of America said. “Boot sets the standard in EURECA the US-Russian university partnerships, creating a new way of substantive cooperation in the scientific causes, economic and social front. “

To continue the process should be to focus education on the development of intellectual capital and transfer of innovations to the marketplace. Integrating work and academic research, and culture of entrepreneurship among faculty and students are the main objectives of these reforms, to be made to promote favorable conditions for university-based property marketing intellectual inquiry.

In 2009, Russian Federal Law 217-FZ of the Russian universities control over their intellectual property, enabling the creation of small businesses on campus. This action is part of the Law on U. S. Bayh-Dole Act, enacted in 1980. In addition, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (MOE) 29 national universities as research universities (NRU) was called, allocating 1.7 billion rubles (0.1 mm) by a college to a world class development time 2009-2014.

To support these reforms, which provides for the allocation USRF 0.5 m per year, with a possible increase of 5 m in funding for projects to be implemented jointly by the newly created academic partnerships US-Russian relations during the pilot phase of two years EURECA stage. The partners expect the project to begin in 2011. Two Russian universities, State University of Nizhny Novgorod Lobachevsky (NNSU) and St. Petersburg Institute of Information Technology, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO), were designated by a tendering procedure as centers EURECA. As such, they will be responsible for developing and disseminating best practices in technology transfer between Russiaâ? S NRU whole community. EURECA wants to use international experts for sustainable development, support US-Russian long-term academic cooperation. USRF NRUsâ provides that the Russian? intellectual property rights, the transition to the market until the end of 2012.


Representatives of five

NRU Russia, including NNSU, ITMO, National University of Science and Technology (Misis), National University of Nuclear Research (MEPhI) and Bauman Moscow State Technical University (BMSTU) U.S. universities and four research â? ? Purdue University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), University of Maryland and the University of Washington (UW), attended the opening ceremony on 8 October EURECA plenary in Washington, DC Among the guests were senior officials Russian Federation and United States educational system, government and academia, including Mark Pomar, President USRF, Vyacheslav V. Moshkalo, Counsellor of the Embassy of the Russian Federation, Igor G. Protsenko, deputy director of International Integration, Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Dan Mote, president emeritus of the University of Maryland, Jim Jaffe, President and CEO of the National Association of Fund Starting and risk (NASVF) are responsible for education and industry.

? We are excited about the opportunity to be part of the program EURECA. To date, cooperation between American universities and NNSU limited short-term professional visits by students and faculty. EURECA is the first program that offers long-term institutional framework for sustainable technology transfer and knowledge transfer between research universities in both countries, and is very dear to us, â? said Alexander O. Grudzinskiy, vice president international and innovations in education and dean of MBA NNSU.


The official opening ceremony

EURECA was part of a ten-day event with partner meetings held October 4-13. The program on October 4 in New Jersey, where the Russian participants attended a three-day start? Essentials of Technology Transfer? Of course, basic training of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM). Partners meeting two days in Washington, DC, October 7 and 8 was followed to Councilsâ U.S.? See. At this meeting representatives of universities in the United States and Russia were the preliminary development of strategic plans for the initial two-year pilot phase EURECA. Both drivers drove NRU hubs on the skills, knowledge and infrastructure necessary to concentrate the essential duties of the handle:


Realization of one? Auditsâ technique? to determine the commercial potential of research results;
Improving the management of university research;
Engage effectively bring innovation to business and government of the university;
The development of legal framework and legal instruments necessary to ensure the registration and patenting
University intellectual property, and

Obtain seed funding and venture capital to develop products for the market.

establish long term partnerships and sustainable development of modular projects were among the main topics of the agenda of the meetings DC. assessment analysis provided by a preliminary investigation, all universities and the needs of experts studied the universities EURECA critical areas of common interests and mutually beneficial cooperation on a variety of projects. Among the projects presented were: evaluating initiatives, faculty and student exchanges, business incubators and technology centers joint investment venture capital in start-ups to students, technology transfer and incubation professional certification programs, organizations for technology transfer. On October 11-13, delegates will visit the partner universities to pool their research facilities, offices of technology transfer and survey of incubators, and meet potential partners such as researchers, students and teachers.

? I see the future of technology transfer in Russia as very promising. Highly qualified and inherently innovative results showed great spirit in the Russian innovative technologies. However, the culture of adopting a friendly approach, with the plethora of existing intellectual property are slow to take root. EURECA we see as a tool that would make our university (Misis) and help implement management systems for research and cooperation structures in the gap between the almost unlimited possibilities of intellectual property research universities Russian and options are currently limited, this bridge market potential? ? said Sergey V. Salikhov, research director at the National University of Science and Technology (Misis).

After his return to Russia supported partnerships between universities in the US-Russian meetings of video-conferencing and where they continue to refine their draft strategic partnerships and modular projects to undertake. These modular projects form the basis of the pilot phase of two years of cooperation and as a result of long-term partnership between the U.S. and Russian research universities.

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