VUE GÉNÉRALE SUR LES INSTRUMENTS ET LES ACTIVITÉS DE COOPÉRATION S T EN COURS AVEC LA RUSSIE

International ScientificCooperation PoliciesThe International Science and Technology Center (ISTC)and the Russian FederationThe end of the cold war has shaped a new environment in the countries of the former SovietUnion, forcing the military complex to consider re-directing part of their resources to civilianactivities. To limit brain and hence proliferation, the European Union, the Governments of theUSA, Japan and the Russian Federation have signed an intergovernmental agreementestablishing the International Science and Technology Center, with its Secretariat based inMoscow.The ISTC Agreement, signed on 27 October 1993, offers a flexible directed towards fundingprojects that “give weapon scientists and engineers opportunities to redirect their talent topeaceful activities”. To that end, the ISTC agreement establishes: a legal entity with the Center an ISTC Secretariat based in Moscow in charge of selecting proposals andmonitoring projects, procuring some equipment and paying salaries the exemption of tax and custom duties for equipment enumerated in ISTC projectagreements the direct payment of salaries to scientists and engineers named in projectagreements the possibility to audit and monitor projects on siteThe spectrum of ISTC fields is diverse: fundamental science; energy; safety and environment;medicine and pharmacy; space and aviation transport; electronics, computer andcommunication; material science; detection and measurement; lasers; ...