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EADS To Open Research Facility at Russia’s Skolkovo Innovation Centre
March 2011 by Emmanuelle Lamandé
Jean Botti, Chief Technical Officer of EADS, and Viktor
Vekselberg, Executive President of the Skolkovo Foundation, have signed a
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on research collaboration. The
agreement underlines the intention of EADS to participate in the Russia-based
Skolkovo Innovation Centre, a high technology business hub to be built in the
Moscow region. The MoU was signed on Wednesday in Paris.
According to the MoU, EADS will establish a centre that will conduct research in
the areas of: aerospace technology, including telecommunications and
navigation; efficient energy technologies; information technology. The Centre
will also collaborate with the Skolkovo Institute of Technology and other
Russian scientific institutions in order to identify technologies and competences
of mutual interest.
EADS also intends to investigate the possible participation in programmes to
support the development of Russian start-up companies in relevant areas.
Based on its long-standing experience, EADS intends to support development
of educational programmes in technology of the “Skolkovo Institute of
Technology” and also to provide advisory services to the Skolkovo Foundation
in respect to establishing internal regulations, corporate solutions and
governance, technical support, security and IP rights.
The EADS research centre will be a branch of the Russian Technology Office
(RTO) which has been established in 2003 as a part of EADS Innovation Works
to facilitate cooperation with the Russian research and development community.
Since its opening, the RTO has already managed more than 100 cooperative
research and technology programmes between EADS and Russian institutions
with a focus on advanced engineering tools.
