The EEC Council approved eleven priority Eurasian technological platforms in the field of industry and agriculture

The main objective of the ETP is to create innovative industries by creating effective tools for the commercialisation of research works and studies, creating the infrastructure required for this, introducing and utilising a working system for the accumulation of advanced national and international achievements in terms of scientific and technological progress in the countries of the Union, and mobilising the scientific potential for innovative industrial development.
Joint activity of the participants of Eurasian technological platforms will be aimed at carrying out scientific and applied research, generating and implementing innovative and cooperative projects, designing joint developments, creating innovative technologies and new products, and putting them into industrial production. All this will contribute to the innovative transformation of the industrial complexes of the Member States of the Union, and their advancement to a new technological level.
The idea of Eurasian technology platforms was first proposed by Member of the Board - Minister in charge of Industry and the Agroindustrial Complex, Sergey Sidorskiy, at the end of 2012. Decision No. 40 of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council was adopted and since May 2013 the EEC Commission has set about implementing the initiative to establish them.
The EEC Industrial unit analysed best practices of European and Russian technology platforms. The results of this analysis showed the feasibility of creating such a tool on the territory of the Common Economic Space.
The EEC interaction system between the parties has been established, the national bodies responsible for coordinating the formation of ETPs (Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Armenia, the State Committee for Science and Technologies of the Republic of Belarus, the Ministry of Investment and Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Ministry of Economy of the Kyrgyz Republic, and the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation) have been defined. A permanent body has been formed: the Working Group for the formation of Eurasian technology platforms. It comprises representatives of the authorised authorities of the countries of the Union, the EEC and the expert community.
In fact, Eurasian technology platforms are part of the Union’s innovation infrastructure and mechanism of cooperation in science, technology and innovation. They facilitate building up effective chains in science, technology and industrial cooperation between the industrial complexes of the EAEU as well as engaging in joint cooperation projects to create and implement innovative technologies and develop new competitive products.
In May 2015, the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council ordered experts of the countries and the Commission to develop a Regulation on the formation and functioning of Eurasian technology platforms in order to develop an appropriate regulatory legal framework for the creation of ETPs. This Regulation was approved by a Decision of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council in April this year and gave the legal opportunity to immediately begin forming the priority Eurasian technological platforms. According to this document, ETPs are formed by organising cooperation between leading business organisations (sectoral industrial enterprises, state-owned companies), science (scientific research institutes, universities and other educational institutions), the state (development institutions, specialised public authorities), public organisations (sectoral associations and unions) of the Member States of the Union. Moreover, technological areas were identified that the parties agreed focus on in order to create technology platforms.
As a result of the session of the Council of October 18, the Member States and the Commission were ordered to work on forming ETP in the remaining technological areas that haven’t been covered: electronics and machine building, metallurgy and new materials, chemistry and petrochemistry, energy, transport, nuclear and radiation technologies.
Press-release at the official Eurasian Economic Commission web-site