Five years ago, Sambir faced an energy challenge. On the one hand, rising electricity tariffs took more and more funds out of the city’s budget. Read more
Category: Energy and environment
EU finances Ukrainian alternative energy projects
Sirocco Energy’s Ukrainian team designed a wind turbine capable of transforming wind energy into power not somewhere out there in the field but where people need it the most – in the city. It may significantly accelerate Ukraine’s advance toward clean energy. Read more
EU supports Vesele hromada in Zaporizhia region
Residents of Vesele amalgamated territorial community are not afraid of being active, offering cooperation and implementing experimental projects. They built a solar power plant in the place of abandoned landfill. An administrative service center was opened in Vesele, modernized with the help from Swedish experts. The community has bought and operates the first mobile waste sorting line in Ukraine. Schoolchildren are able to grow vegetables in school greenhouses, learn to manage the community using table games, and record their own programs for the local radio station. Read more
EU helps protect Ukrainian rivers
As of 2018, there are 13 European-standard basin councils operating in Ukraine. They include representatives of central and local governments and at least 30% of water users, including entrepreneurs, farmers and civic activists. Together, they solve the problems of Ukrainian reservoirs. And they are assisted in this by the European Union Water Initiative Plus and the Environmental Reform Support Team under the Ecology Ministry, which is co-financed by the EU – through consultations on European legislation, training of Ukrainian civil servants, monitoring of surface and groundwater status of Ukraine, etc. Read more
New electricity market: what was before and how is it now?
The first step in the transition from the old to a new model of the electricity market has been taken by establishing a wholesale market where generating companies or electricity producers make direct contracts with buyers Read more
How a Small Town from Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Surprised Europe with Energy-Efficient Achievements
Dolyna is the only Ukrainian town in this-year list of finalists for the award of the European Union on Sustainable Energy among Eastern Partnership. For a district centre of Ukraine with a population of 20 thousand people such a recognition is a great achievement. It became achievable due to the strategy of sustainable energy development supported by the town authorities, million-euro project and citizens who are ready to actively participate in development of Dolyna. Read more
How Ukrainian university creates aviation of future for EU grants
M.Y. Zhukovsky National Aerospace University “Kharkiv Institute of Aviation” (KIA) was founded in 1930. The university, which has 11,000 students from 50 countries of the world, designs unmanned aerial vehicles and is a renowned research center for aerodynamics, composites and engine technologies. KIA has designed AN-225 Mriya, the largest cargo aircraft in the world.
In addition, the university is the most successful participant of Horizon 2020 framework program in Ukraine. It has received over EUR 1.8 million in grant financing for its six projects. Five of these projects are devoted to aviation, and the other one to cybersecurity. AIN.UA Editorial Office about why KIA has managed to do it and how. Read more
