Project Acronym:	ISTOK SOYUZ
Project Full Title:	"Information Technologies to Open Knowledge for Eastern Europe and Central Asia"
Target EECA countries:	Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia and Kazakhstan
Project Duration:	January 1, 2009 - June 30, 2011 (30 months)
Project Website:	www.istok-soyuz.eu
Coordinator:	Inno AG
Contact Person:	Mrs Svetlana KLESSOVA

The ISTOK-SOYUZ project, based on the sound outcomes and lessons learnt of the ISTOK.Ru project www.istok-ru.eu implemented in Russia in 2006-2008, will expand the ISTOK experience to the Eastern Europe & Central Asia countries, identifying and promoting visibility of mutual RTD potential and collaboration opportunities.

The project will:

• Promote the EU ICT programme, raise awareness about benefits of mutual collaboration;
• Identify potential for R&D ICT collaboration between the European Union and 12 addressed countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia;
  
• Expand the EU-Russian ICT research community to 4 targeted countries (Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia and Kazakhstan) through the opening of an ISTOK competence platform and implementing pilot actions such as networking & brokerage events and assistance to integration into the European Technology Platforms and Networks of Excellence;
• Provide support to research teams from the targeted countries with the goal of increasing the number of ICT FP7 partnerships between researchers from Europe and targeted countries. The project activities will be done in collaboration with national stakeholders and other relevant co-operation projects in view of exploiting synergies and maximising impact.

The ISTOK-SOYUZ project covers 4 other countries (Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan) by its informational campaign and analyses their R&D ICT collaboration potential with Europe.

You may download a short description of the project from here

Partners:

Consotrium Partner	Acronym	Country	Logo
Inno AG	inno	Germany
Russian Technology Transfer Network	RTTN	Russia
Institute for System Programming of the Russian	ISPRAS	Russia
Republican Centre for Technology Transfer	RCTT	Belarus
Technology Business Incubator “Kharkov Technologies”	TBI	Ukraine
ICT Educational and Research Center of the Yerevan State University	YSU ICT	Armenia
Fondation Sophia-Antipolis	FSA	France
National Innovation Fund	NIF	Kazakhstan