The Science and Innovation for Development Centre (SCiDEV) is an independent organization that aims to support and incentivise sustainable, economic and social development and democratisation in Albania and the wider region. SCiDEV works in the following areas:
Democracy and good governance: EU integration, evidence-informed policymaking, digital rights, and democracy, anti-corruption
Media and C
ommunication: Countering disinformation, media literacy, science communication, media and civil society nexus, media development
Strengthening Research to Society Links: Quality of research, citizen science, open access, capacity building, knowledge transfer, and innovation, networking and science communication
Innovation and digital transformation: Digital literacy, digital rights, digital skills, social-economic empowerment through digitalization and innovation, digitalization, digital transformation, inclusive digitalization, Women in STEM. SCiDEV’s primary target groups are: youth, young professionals, researchers, higher education institutions, government institutions, local CSOs and grassroots groups, and media. SCiDEV primarily engages in research, capacity development, advocacy and knowledge brokering, Project Development, Fundraising, Networking, Science Communication, Engagement of Academic Diaspora. SCiDEV brings together a team of project managers, experts and researchers, with complementary competencies and expertise and highly motivated to successfully achieve the goals of projects in higher education, research, innovation, and civil society. SCiDEV is part of the following WB6 and wider region networks: SEE Digital Rights Network, Western Balkans European Social Survey Regional Network, Beacon Project Response Network, and Social Observatory for Disinformation and Social Media Analysis of the European Union. COORP was a project undertaken by the co-founders of SCiDEV, which aimed at supporting the integration of the Albanian research community into the European Research Area, by connecting Albanian researchers locally, regionally, and internationally, and strengthen the quality of research and research skills. COORP was supported by PERFORM - Performing and Responsive Social Sciences – a project of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation implemented by HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation and the University of Fribourg from 2016 to 2018.