The funding is open to public higher education institutions and research units engaged in scientific activity.

Prime Minister Edi Rama said in a social media post on Friday that the Ministry of Education, through AKKShI, “supports research and development projects, technology and innovation initiatives, and research infrastructure projects with 7 million euros in funding.”

He added that “the call provides universities, research units, and individual researchers the opportunity to develop their programmes at the highest level of research quality and innovation, producing a real impact on the country’s economic, social, and technological activities.”

The programmes aim to strengthen higher education and research institutions, support scientific research through laboratories and equipment, and respond to national priorities in social, economic, and cultural development, as well as international trends in science and research.

The initiatives also seek to improve existing research infrastructure, create conditions for national and international research activities, increase the capacity of universities to provide services to third parties – including businesses, industry, institutions, and communities – and establish research infrastructure aligned with European programme standards.

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Addressing an event to announce the winning projects funded by the National Scientific Research and Innovation Programme for 2025, Manastirliu noted that the Ministry of Education and Sports has allocated funding for 181 projects in six main study areas, taking another significant step towards meeting national priorities for research and innovation development.

In her remarks, Education Minister emphasized importance of the scientific research for the country’s sustainable development, affirming the government’s commitment to increasing its funding for the scientific research in higher education institutions and Albanian academics.

Manastirliu announced that a new program will open in June to support doctoral degrees on priority fields of scientific research, saying the program will also serve the country’s socio-economic and technological development.

This year’s support program focused on six priority study areas, namely biodiversity and environment; agriculture, food and biotechnology; health and medical sciences; systems and information technologies;  social sciences and Albanian studies, as well as water and energy.

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The Minister of Education said via the social media that the wining projects mainly focused on areas concerning economy, health, energy and environment.

“I wish every success to the talented and innovative teams of scientific researchers and encourage them to, together with the students, work to turn university into a promoter of accelerated economic and social progress of the country,” Education Minister said.

The wining research and development projects focused on the ongoing concerns about economy, health, environmental and energy issues our planet is experiencing today. Research projects conducted in cooperation with universities and business, with 10 wining projects selected for first time, promoting a new model of cooperation and organic connection between researchers, lecturers, students and business representatives.

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The agreement was signed by Kosovo Education Minister Arbërie Nagavci and the visiting Albanian Minister of Education and Sports Evis Kushi.

At a joint press conference after their meeting, Kushi focused on projects such as the joint children’s reading and spelling book for beginners.

“Meanwhile, work has just started on the Albanian Encyclopaedia between our two science academies. We are here again for another initiative. It is about the cooperation agreement to co-finance joint scientific research projects between scientists from both countries. A total of  10 joint projects have been launched since 2019 and the budget for scientific research programmes has been increased,” Kushi said.

According to her, cooperation of researchers and universities of the two countries with leading European and international universities is a top priority.

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