National Science Council (NSC) Deputy Minister Chen Cheng-hong (陳正宏) recently wrapped up a visit to Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, part of an effort to boost bilateral cooperation in the field of scientific and technological research.
Chen’s sx-day trip, which wrapped up on Saturday, focused on promoting enhanced exchanges with the Baltic states, Berlin-based council official Peng Shuang-chun (彭雙俊) said.
Chen met with the Latvian and Lithuanian vice ministers in charge of education, science and research on Tuesday last week in the Latvian capital, Riga, for talks on the progress of a tri-nation scientific research cooperation program that was launched in 2001, Peng said.
Chen delivered a speech at the meeting in which he said that Taiwanese tend to view the Baltic states as “faraway, but beautiful countries” and that Taiwan was deeply moved by the peaceful revolutions that took place there and saw the end of authoritarian rule in the early 1990s.
Under the tri-nation scientific research cooperation program, Taiwan has exchanged personnel and research in the fields of physics, biomedicine, optics and photoelectronics with Latvia and Lithuania, Chen said.
Chen and his aides traveled to Estonia on Saturday, where he signed an agreement with the -Estonian -Science Foundation under the ministry of science and education, initiating a bilateral science and technology cooperation program.
Under the agreement, Taiwan and Estonia will exchange personnel and research.
Once the agreement takes effect on Jan. 1 next year, three Estonian professors will be selected to travel to Taiwan and engage in research by the end of the year, while three Taiwanese professors would do the same in Estonia, Peng said.
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