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ISLAMABAD, Aug 08 (APP): Ambassador of Romania to Pakistan Dan Stoenescu has reaffirmed Romania’s dedication to deepening cooperation with Pakistan in science, expertise, schooling, and innovation, recognising Pakistan’s progress in digital transformation, synthetic intelligence.
The Ambassador stated in a gathering with the Honourable Pakistani Federal Minister of Science and Technology, Khalid Hussain Magsi.
As an vital member of the European Union, Romania gives Pakistani companions entry to flagship EU-funded initiatives comparable to Horizon Europe (€95.5 billion for analysis and innovation, 2021–2027), Erasmus+ (schooling, coaching, and educational alternate), and the Digital Europe Programme. These platforms open alternatives for joint tasks in AI, renewable vitality, cybersecurity, inexperienced applied sciences, agriculture, and house purposes.
Romania is one in every of Europe’s fastest-growing IT and innovation hubs, contributing over 6% to GDP and using greater than 200,000 professionals, he stated including that the nation is recognised for its extremely expert software program engineers, aggressive prices, and experience in cybersecurity, fintech, AI, cloud options, blockchain, and automotive software program. Global tech leaders comparable to Microsoft, IBM, Amazon, and Oracle function R&D and service centres in Romania, alongside thriving native firms exporting worldwide.
The Ambassador stated the Romania has produced globally recognised unicorns (startups valued over USD 1 billion), together with UiPath (robotic course of automation), Bitdefender (cybersecurity), Elrond (blockchain), and FintechOS (monetary expertise). Its dynamic tech hubs in Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara, Iasi, Brasov, and Bucharest mix sturdy educational establishments with vibrant startup ecosystems and innovation parks.
Potential cooperation alternatives between Romania and Pakistan span a variety of high-impact areas. These embrace establishing joint ventures in software program growth focusing on each EU and Gulf markets, fostering cybersecurity collaboration by means of specialised coaching, certification, and digital forensics, and launching alternate packages between Romania’s dynamic tech hubs and Pakistan’s National Incubation Centers to stimulate start-up development.
Both international locations also can interact in joint analysis tasks in synthetic intelligence, the Internet of Things, and blockchain applied sciences underneath EU frameworks comparable to Horizon Europe and Digital Europe, whereas advancing partnerships in e-government options and the digital transformation of public companies to enhance effectivity, transparency, and citizen engagement.
To advance this agenda, ambassador Stoenescu explored the potential signing a Memorandum of Understanding between Pakistan’s Ministry of Science and Technology and Romania’s National Authority for Digitalization and National Authority for Research, in addition to organising a Romania–Pakistan Science & Technology Forum with a robust concentrate on the IT trade.