Taiwan, Sweden to boost tech cooperation: minister

Taipei Times
Date: Aug 29, 2019
By: Lin Chia-nan  /  Staff reporter

Minister of Science and Technology Chen Liang-gee, left, and Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

president Dan Larhammar, right, witness the signing of a memorandum of understanding between Department of International Cooperation and Science Education Director-General Huang Hsin-ya, second right, and Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research chief executive officer Lars Hultman, second left, at the academy in Stockholm on Tuesday.

Photo courtesy of the Ministry of Science and Technology

Taiwan is to increase collaboration with Sweden on information and communication, space and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, the Ministry of Science and Technology said yesterday after signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with a Swedish research foundation.

A delegation led by Minister of Science and Technology Chen Liang-gee (陳良基) on Sunday left for a week-long trip to Sweden, Belgium and the Netherlands.

Chen on Tuesday met with Swedish Minister for Higher Education and Research Matilda Ernkrans, the first-ever meeting between the two nations’ science and education ministers, the ministry said.

The two nations are jointly engaged in 15 projects under the EU’s research and innovation initiative named Horizon 2020, it said.    [FULL  STORY]