A roadmap exercise has been drafted and a mapping process is being prepared with the support of the Technical Assistance and Information Exchange instrument of the European Commission (TAIEX). The country’s Smart Specialisation process will be organised at the national level by keeping a regional perspective when looking at the development state and potential of Albania's 12 counties (qark).
Currently, Albania has a National Strategy on Scientific Research, Technology and Innovation 2017-2022 that was approved in 2017 and is implemented by two agencies, the National Agency for Scientific Research and Innovation (NASRI) and the Albanian Investment Development Agency (AIDA). The country is also associated with the EU’s science and innovation framework programme Horizon 2020, meaning that legal entities from Albania can participate under the same conditions as legal entities from EU Member States.