PARTICIPATION OF I.VEKUA INSTITUTE OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS (VIAM) OF Iv. JAVAKHISHVILI TBILISI STATE UNIVERSITY (TSU) IN EU SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMMES George Jaiani Director of VIAM TSU Member of the Council of the Division of Mathematics of the European Academy of Sciences STAKEHOLDERS CONFERENCE “EU-EECA S&T COOPERATION: THE WAY FORWARD” (ATHENS, GREECE, 16-17.06.2009)

About VIAM In 1968 VIAM of TSU was founded by Ilia Vekua http://www.viam.science.tsu.ge/ In 1968 VIAM of TSU was founded by Ilia Vekua well-known scientist in the International community of mathematicians and mechanisists (an evidence among others in Mathematical Reviews Subject Classification – MSC: 30G20 Generalizations of Bers and Vekua Type).

Main Scientific Directions Mathematical problems of the mechanics of continua and related problems of the analysis (Directed by Prof. Dr. G. Jaiani) Mathematical modelling and numerical mathematics (Directed by Prof. Dr. D. Gordeziani) Applied logics and programming (Directed by Prof. Dr. A. Kharazishvili) 3

The Dynamics of Researchers with at Least PhD Degrees 4

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International Scientific Cooperation VIAM Romania Austria Czech Rep. Slovakia Ukraine Azerbaijan Armenia Russia Poland Germany Italy France Great Britain USA Pakistan 6

INTAS Project 06-1000017-8886 Some nonclassical problems for thin structures (January 2007-January 2009) Italian Team (Universita' degli Studi di ROMA "Tor Vergata"): Prof. P. P.-Guidugli (team leader) IMNAS of Armenia (Institute of Mechanics National Academy of Sciences of Republic of Armenia): Prof. L. Aghalovian (team leader) French Team (Laboratory of Modelling and Numerical Simulation Ecole Supérieure d'Ingénieurs en Electronique et Electronique ): Prof. B. Miara (team leader) YSU Armenia (Yerevan State University): Prof. V. Belubekyan (team leader) Georgian Team (VIAM): Prof. G. Jaiani (team leader) 7 7

INTAS Project 06-1000017- 8943 Nongausian Transport, Strong Turbulence, and Nonlinear Phenomena in the Magnetosphere and Ionospher (January 2007-January 2009)      Georgian team- I. Vekua Institute of Applied Mathematics of Tbilisi State University ( VIAM TSU), M. Nodia Institute of Geophysics: Prof. Dr. G.Aburjania (team leader). Italian team - Univesity of Calabria: Prof. Dr. G. Zimbardo (team leader). Check Rep. team – Institute of Atmospheric Physics: Prof. Dr. Z.Voros (team leader). Russian team – Space Research Institute: Dr. A. Milovanov (team leader). 8

INTAS Project CONSORTIUM: University of Linz - Austria CA_05_008_ 1000008_8144 Practical Formal Program Verification Using Automated Reasoning and Model Checking (June 2006-May 2009) CONSORTIUM: University of Linz - Austria Kiev National Taras Shevchenko University - Ukraine Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics - Ukraine Moscow State University - Russia Institute e-Austria Timisoara – Romania VIAM - Tbilisi State University - Georgia Georgian team leader Prof. J. Antidze  9

European Commission 7th Framework- FP7- Deployment of Infrastructures for Scientific Communities Project N 211338 SEE-GRID Infrastructure for regional Science (2008-2010) GRNET (Coordinating Contractor, Greece); CERN (Switzerland); IPP (Bulgaria); ICI (Romania); TUBITAK (Turkey); SZTAKI (Hungary); UPT (Albania); UOBL (Bosnia-Herzegovina); UKIM (FYR of Macedonia); UOB (Serbia); UOM (Montenegro); Renam (Moldova); RBI (Croatia); IIAP NAS RA (Armenia); GRENA (Georgia) Leader of a group engaged to make an application in meteorology is Prof. Dr. T. Davitashvili (VIAM) 10

ECONET ECONET-16362VB “Inverse and boundary control problems with application” (EGIDE, ECONET, France 01.01.2007-31.12.2008) Implementers of the Project: Nantes University – France Baku State University – Azerbaijan VIAM – Georgia Coordinator of the Project: Prof. Dr. A. Nachaoui (France) Partner-country Project Coordinator: Prof. Dr. T. Tadumadze (Georgia) Other Projects CRDF-GRDF (3 Projects) NATO SCIENCE PROGRAMME 11

Good Experience (Practices) new contacts and development of existing International Scientific cooperation Joint publications (12) Joint workshops (11) Mobility of scientists, especially young ones Consequent bilateral cooperation 12

Difficulties & Proposals Announcing collaborative calls, besides of scientific directions there should be separated topical urgent tasks (problems) with higher financing in contrast to other projects financed by the same scientific programme. Creation of research consortiums should be flexible. Namely, based on the experience of their cooperation scientists create teams and submit a project to solve jointly certain problem; Competition Boards should elaborate recommendations during competition to unite teams from different submitted projects in one project with close scientific targets. The minimal number of teams from different countries should not prescribed in advance; it should depend on globality of the project which should defined during the process of evaluation. 13

Difficulties & Proposals Often arise difficulties by covering operational costs by the hosting institutions, especially by purchase of equipments. So, only overheads for administrative expenses should be transferred to the hosting institutions. All the facilities of the personal use (personal computers included) should be left to the successful project participants as awards. State Institutions and Institutions of Scientific Societies, Unions, and Academies Should have equal wrights of participation in EU Collaborative calls. 14

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