On March 26, 2021, a collaboration agreement was signed between the State Agency for Intellectual Property (AGEPI) represented by Viorel IUSTIN, General Director, and the National Agency for Quality Assurance in Education and Research (ANACEC), represented by Andrei CHICIUC, President. The agreement aims to strengthen and deepen collaborative relations in areas of mutual interest.

Starting from the desideratum of European integration of the Republic of Moldova and rallying of science in the country to international research standards, recognizing the role of intellectual property, education, research and innovation in the economic, social and cultural development of our country and taking into account the need to strengthen and to align the national system of intellectual property and quality assurance in education and research to the international standards in the field, both entities undertake to achieve the following objectives:

• streamlining the research and innovation process, as well as strengthening the national intellectual property protection system;      
• promoting international standards for the quality assurance of research and best practices in order to streamline the acquisition of new scientific or technological knowledge within organizations and institutions in the fields of research and innovation, by organizing information and training seminars;
• familiarization of researchers and inventors in the country with the provisions of national and international legislation in the field of intellectual property;
• developing the competences of specialists in organizations and institutions in the fields of research and innovation with regard to research management, including in the field of legal protection and capitalization of intellectual property objects;
• providing information assistance to organizations and institutions in the fields of research and innovation for the creation and / or development of intellectual property management and technology transfer services;
• co-publishing, as co-founders, the journal of intellectual property, science and education ,,Intellectus”, its promotion in the country and abroad in order to integrate it into the international scientific circuit.

The priority directions for joint collaboration consist in cooperating in the process of drafting normative acts, as well as other instructions and recommendations, which will contribute to the efficiency of the research and innovation process, also to the consolidation of the national intellectual property protection system; collaborating in the preparation for printing and publishing the journal of intellectual property, science and education ,,Intellectus”, in the preparation of the evaluation file of the journal in accordance with the ANACEC Regulation on evaluation, classification and monitoring of scientific journals, and promoting the publication in the scientific and academic environment in the country and abroad, including through international databases and international catalogs of field summaries.

The full collaboration agreement can be accessed here.