Rector Hajrizi Meets Tania Friederichs from EC Research and Innovation Program

30/01/2016

UBT Rector Prof. Dr. Edmond Hajrizi has met Mrs.  Tania Friederichs, Policy Officer of the European Commission’s Program for Research and Innovation for the Western Balkans and Turkey.  Mrs. Friederichs was staying in Pristina to discuss the European Commission’s support for the research and innovation programs.

The UBT is one of the beneficiaries of the European Commission’s  programs supporting research and innovation.  At an order by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology of the Republic of Kosovo, the UBT has been assigned as the National Reference for the European Commission’s framework program of research and innovation, “Horizon 2020,” on the sector: New Technologies and the Future/Information and Communication Technology.                  

 

At the discussions with Mrs. Friederichs — representatives of other academic institutions of the Republic of Kosovo also attended — a number of topics of interest were treated.  Different aspects of the support in the field of science were addressed on the first day, while discussions on the second day focused on aspects related to education.