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The NATO-Ukraine Joint Working Group for Scientific and Environmental Cooperation reviewed progress on key projects and identified areas for further work through NATO's Science for Peace and Security (SPS) Programme in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on 8 November.
Borys Grynyov, Deputy Head of the State Agency on Science, Innovation and Informatization of Ukraine and co-chairman of the Joint Working Group, stated that his country’s priorities include information and communication technologies, energy efficiency, environment management, life sciences and new materials.
“Cooperative activities can be funded in these areas provided they are focused on security aspects that have relevance for peace and stability,” said Dr Deniz Beten, SPS and Partnership Cooperation Advisor in NATO’s Emerging Security Challenges (ESC) Division and co-chair of the meeting.
Oleg Anpilogov, Deputy Chief of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration emphasised the need to engage with the scientific community to solve military and civilian security issues. He highlighted the contribution of scientific research to improving understanding of the social causes of unrest and terrorism, as well as to developing advanced technologies for detectors, scanners and energy-saving devices. “The Kharkiv Regional State Administration fully supports the SPS Programme and its projects,” he said.
Ukraine: an active science partner
“Ukraine is the most active partner country after Russia with respect to the number of SPS activities,” said Dr Beten. “Ukrainian scientists are encouraged to submit more applications for workshops and training courses with the aim of better integrating young scientists into the international scientific community.”
Dr Beten stressed the importance of Ukraine continuing to provide funding to Ukrainian institutes and their scientists working on multi-year SPS projects to ensure sustainability.
SPS supports cooperation between scientists and experts in a number of areas of importance to both NATO and Ukraine. Recent SPS-funded activities include an international conference in Lviv, Ukraine, to discuss emerging security challenges, including energy security, counter terrorism and cyber defence; a joint Ukraine-Belarus flood-risk monitoring and forecast project in the Pripyat River Basin; and the NESTOR project, which aims to improve high resolution image detection for use in medicine, identifying illicit trafficking, explosion detection, forensics and environmental security.
While in Kharkiv, NATO SPS officials visited the Single Crystal Institute and the National Science Center, where work has taken place on previous SPS projects.