2024-04-11 19:14:25
President Rumen Radev and Bulgarian businessmen left for the capital of Lithuania.
Radev will participate in the summit of the “Three Seas” Initiative. It is a political project that has been joined by thirteen EU countries – Bulgaria, Austria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Croatia, the Czech Republic and Greece.
The host this year is the President of Lithuania Gitanas Nauseda. According to his statement on the occasion of his country’s rotating chairmanship on the initiative’s website, today’s meeting will focus on Ukraine, which is an associate member of the project along with Moldova.
In parallel with the summit meeting in Vilnius, which will be held in the Palace of the Grand Marquises in the center of Vilnius, a business forum will be held with the participation of representatives of Bulgarian companies.
President Radev hosted the sixth edition of the initiative in Sofia in July 2021, when Bulgaria was the rotating chairman of the initiative for the year in question.
At the initiative of our head of state, during the meeting in Sofia in “Three Seas”, an emphasis was placed on science, research and innovation. In 2021, discussions began in Sofia to create another fund for “Three Seas”, aimed at investments to support the development of innovative companies.
The focus of the meeting in Sofia was on the national priorities in the field of scientific research and innovation according to the National Strategy for Smart Specialization and the Development Program of Bulgaria 2030.
Participants in the sixth edition of the forum discussed different forms of funding, agreeing on the idea of finding opportunities to work on a common project in the field of research and innovation.
Last year, during the forum in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, a decision was made for the Three Seas Initiative to set aside a new fund with a focus on innovation.