EECA
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on Opportunities and Challenges in View of Enhancing the EU Cooperation with Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and South Caucasus in Science, Research, and Innovation
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Imprint Editorial Board: International Bureau of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research Center (DLR), Germany
International Centre for Black Sea Studies ICBSS, Greece
Centre for Social Innovation ZSI, Austria
Editor: International Centre for Black Sea Studies (ICBSS) 4 Xenophontos Str., 105 57 Athens, Greece Telephone: +30 210 324 2321 Telefax: +30 210 324 2244 www.icbss.org,
[email protected] Core drafting team: Jörn Sonnenburg, Barbara Wick, Kirsten Kienzler, Maria Josten (DLR, Germany) George Bonas (ICBSS & NHRF, Greece), Cristina Mosora, Dimitris Filippidis (ICBSS, Greece) Klaus Schuch (ZSI, Austria) Local correspondents in the EECA countries (contributors to the present volume) Tigran Arzumanyan (NAS, Armenia) (ANAS, Azerbaijan) Adalat Hasanov Olga Meerovskaya (BelISA, Belarus) Theodore Dolidze & Nikoloz Bakradze (SRNSF, Georgia) Kamila Magzieva & Sulushash Magzieva (InExCB-Kz, Kazakhstan) Jyldyz Bakashova (NLKR, Kyrgyzstan) (ASM, Moldova) Sergiu Porcescu & Diana Grozav Anna Pikalova & Liliana Proskuryakova (HSE, Russia) Ilkolm Mirsaidov (SODESCO, Tajikistan) Dovlet Jumakuliev (Altyn Umyt, Turkmenistan) Vadym Yashenkov & Olena Koval (NIP, Ukraine) Rustam Saidov & Durdona Komilova (IUCP-T, Uzbekistan) Layout: Layout based on original design by bernoh / Berno Hellmann | Berlin | Germany (www.bernoh.de) and CD Werbeagentur GmbH | Troisdorf | Germany (www.cdonline.de). Pictures: CD Werbeagentur, Maria Josten/DLR (p. 26, p. 32), ESA (p. 51), European Commission (p. 54) Print: Citronio, Athens Greece, April 2012 Reproductions are permitted under the condition to explicitly state the following reference: Sonnenburg, J., Bonas, G. and Schuch, K. (ed