Interacademy Programs Between the United States and Eastern Europe 1967-2009 The Changing Landscape (2009) / Chapter Skim
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3 Bilateral and Regional Workshops
3 Bilateral and Regional Workshops
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They are also chronicled in Appendix A Finally, representatives of the National Academies have participated in regional workshops in Eastern Europe organized by counterpart academies.
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participants traveling to Eastern Europe gave positive reports of their professional and cultural experiences. Similarly, reports of Eastern European participants that were available to the NRC were generous in their praise of the workshops, from both the scientific and hospitality viewpoints.
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The scientific discussions provided insights into GDR research, which was far from the frontier of world science; and the visits to research institutions also confirmed that the researchers were lagging behind their counterparts in Europe as well as in the United States. However, the American participants did find limited achievements in molecular biology, plant genetics, and plant biochemistry that were at a competitive level with U.S.
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The Bulgarian academy was also being reorganized to decentralize management of research and to introduce greater competition in the funding of research projects. SOURCE: NRC Office of Soviet and East European Affairs.
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Topics of interest were management of aquatic ecosystems, including agriculture and environmental impacts, and air and water pollution control. During the first week, the American specialists observed lakes, canals, and agricultural lands in the Danube Delta and inspected forests experiencing a drying phenomenon, presumably due to overuse of pesticides.
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These workshops were not part of an overall plan to BOX 3-4 U.S.-Poland Workshop on Energy Efficiency (1990) During the 2-week program, the American specialists visited government minis tries, nongovernmental organizations, research institutes, and industrial plants in the Warsaw, Krakow, and Silesia regions to improve their understanding of envi ronmental and energy challenges in Poland.
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In 1992 German officials and other European observers discussed the absorption of the GDR research establishment into the overall German research system. The relative academic
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Fifty chemical enterprises faced privatization. Each enterprise would be without the benefits of guaranteed markets, access to raw materials well below world prices, and other state subsidies.
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from 1988 to 1995 -- four in Hungary and one in the United States. These workshops were largely oriented to technology management, and they involved Hungarian specialists from government ministries and research institutes beyond the institutes of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
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Although the NRC was not directly involved, its activities were of considerable interest to these organizations; and consultations with the NRC were frequent. YUGOSLAVIA AND ITS SUCCESSOR STATES Among the earliest workshops sponsored by the NRC involving Eastern European academies were several with academies in Yugoslavia.
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funding for scientific cooperation must be pointed in other directions. At the same time, the region is gaining in scientific strength; and workshops to introduce scientists to one another through discussions of not only scientific issues but also policy and management issues seem to have been a good investment.
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