Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
honored guests!
It is a great honour to greet you on this occasion – signing ceremony of the cooperation
agreement between the Lithuanian Agency for Science, Innovation and Technology and
Israeli Industry Center for R&D – the executive agency of the Office of the Chief
Scientist of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor.
I’m confident that this agreement will promote the cooperation in industrial research
and development and facilitate joint innovation activities and projects between our
countries. I would like to emphasize as well that this agreement serves as another
milestone and evidence of the very good bilateral economic relations between Israel
and Lithuania. These relations have been marked by high level exchange visits and
professional dialogues and consultations. The highlights of this year were the visits of
Israeli Agricultural & Rural Development Minister Mrs. O.Noked and Minister of
Energy & Water Resources Dr. U.Landau to Lithuania, the visit of Lithuanian
Agricultural Minister Mr. K.Starkevičius to Israel during the international Agritech
exhibition, as well as a recent visit of more than 100 Israeli experts, lecturers
and businessmen to the first Life Sciences Baltics conference in Vilnius this
September.
Still I believe there is much to be done in the fields of economy and sciences, especially
research & development, therefore I would like to express satisfaction regarding the
fact that the 2nd Call for Proposals for joint R&D projects between Lithuanian and
Israeli companies is being announced today. By this I would like to encourage both
Lithuanian and Israeli companies to submit their joint proposals for this important call.
We really hope to see good results of both this agreement and call of proposals.
Finally I would like to use this opportunity and thank all the organizers of the event and
wish both countries successful implementation of this important agreement by
promoting new joint R&D projects, organizing mutual meetings, seminars and
workshops and developing new contacts and exchange of expertise. I wish success to
both countries and especially to Lithuania in successfully forming the new government!