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12. Romania
12.1. General information
Romania is a southeast European country with about 22.3 million inhabitants
(Pop2002). Gross expenditure on R&D (GERD) was 0.37% in 2000, which has
decreased from 0.80% in 1998 (Statistic2003). Responsible for Research is the
ministry of Education and Research. The government programme 2001-2004 sets
out a strategy including for Scientific Research. They intend to develop a National
Research and Development System. This system includes defining the strategic
fields and priority funding, diversifying funding sources and evaluation of results. The
system will be adapted to integration in the European Research Area. Labs will be
equipped with ICT, and the government facilitates co-operation projects and centres of
excellence for international collaborations as well as regional and national
industrial development. (Government programme, 2001) This strategy development is
well underway, and explicitly includes nanotechnology.
The IMT Research Institute in Bucharest is the nucleus for the nanotechnology
networks and programmes in the country. It also acts as a “bridgehead” to integrate
Romanian nanotechnology research into the European Research Area ERA.
Figure 23: Map of Romania
(Source: http://forum.europa.eu.int/irc/dsis/candidate/info/data/candidate countries/)
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