The GRDF mission: • to develop the Georgian scientific-engineering potential and to promote research and development activity in  priority fields;   • to support financially research projects on the base on the peer-review and scientific merit of initiatives. Main Goals: The Foundation will promote and render support in: • carrying out international cooperation in the fields of basic and applied research;   • creating competitive technologies, devices, new materials with improved properties, databases, etc.;   • commercializing intellectual output (so called "Next Step") on local and international scales;   • developing humanitarian and social sciences;   • disseminating democracy and market economy principles;   • integration of the Georgian scientific sector with international  scientific community;   • optimizing utilization of the available technical facilities park and its renewal;   • disseminating scientific information.

The  Georgian Research and Development Foundation (GRDF) is a legal entity of private law registered by the Ministry of Justice of Georgia on August 7, 2001.
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The U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation (CRDF), in cooperation with the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE), the Climate Literacy & Awareness Network (CLEAN), the Georgia National Science Foundation (GNSF) and the Georgian Research and Development Foundation (GRDF) held a three- day conference (7-9 June,2010) on Climate Change Curricula in Higher Education in Tbilisi, Georgia.
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