Ukrainian and Polish researchers will work together on 15 bilateral scientific projects in 2020–2021. The list was approved at a meeting of the Joint Science and Technology Cooperation Commission on December 23, 2019 in Warsaw. The projects will focus on new technologies and materials, ecology, energy efficiency, life sciences, improvement of defense capabilities etc.
In total, in 2019, Ukrainian researchers from 59 institutions implemented 119 bilateral projects with their foreign colleagues. Active cooperation continued with 12 countries: more than half of them were EU members, as well as India, China, the USA, Belarus and Korea. In 2020, after nearly a 20-year hiatus, Ukraine will begin to implement joint projects with Israel.
Top 3 universities according to projects implementation:
- Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv – 10 (7 partner countries);
- Lviv Polytechnic National University – 10 (7 partner countries);
- V. Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine – 7 (6 partner countries).