A new roadmap for Science, Technology & Innovation (STI) cooperation for next 5 years was signed on the occasion of the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the 21st India-Russia Annual Summit in New Delhi, India, on December 6, 2021.

As the two sides emphasised the importance of joint research in science, technology, and innovation, the roadmap for STI cooperation was concluded by Mr. Sanjeev K Varshney, Head of the International Cooperation of the Department of Science & Technology for the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India and Mr. Starzhenetsky Vladislav Valerievich, Director of the Department of International Cooperation for Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation. 

The Roadmap is expected to boost innovation-related engagements between the two countries and focus on commercialization of technologies and full-cycle support joint projects for economic and societal impact. Both countries will also explore supporting the creation of International centers for Innovative Entrepreneurship & Inter-Cluster Interactions to improve Technology Partnerships.

The themes identified for potential areas of cooperation are agriculture and food science and technology, blue economy, marine industry, and ocean resources, chemical science & technology engineering sciences energy, water, climate, and natural resources, health and medical technology, life sciences, and biotechnology, ICT, applied mathematics and data science and technology, material science & technology; physics and astrophysics, polar research and quantum science and technologies.