The education ministry intends to allocate more than 400 million euros to be spent on research during 2010, Education Minister Anna Diamantopoulou announced on Monday.
The minister said that 140 innovative projects with a combined budget of 82 million euros had been approved for funding so far, while activities accounting for another 320 million euros were due to begin by the end of 2010.
Diamantopoulou stressed that the government’s policy in this areas was to link research with production and to create an architectural network of research institutes and centres in the country. Among the programmes already approved, 40 aimed to develop new products and 15 were based on patents.
Concerning ministry policy on research, she said the ministry was promoting cooperation and joint ventures between university research centres and the private sector, with emphasis on information technology, biotechnology, agrobiotechnology and environmental science, as well as on alternative energy sources.
The aim was to link knowledge with production in order to convert the Greek economy into a modern knowledge-based economy that emphasised human capital and the production of highest quality products and services.
(source: ana-mpa)
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