Armenian National Academy of Sciences (RA NAS) awarded a golden medal to the Executive Director of International Science and Technology Center (ISTC), Adriaan van der Meer.

The award was granted for contributions to the development of science in Armenia.

The International Science and Technology Center (ISTC) is an intergovernmental organization connecting scientists from Russia, Georgia and other countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) with their peers and research organizations in Canada, EU, Japan, Republic of Korea, Norway and the United States.

ISTC facilitates international science projects and assists the global scientific and business community to source and engage with Russian and CIS institutes that develop or possess an excellence of scientific know-how.