Horizon 2020 is the EU funding programme for research and innovation with a €80 billion budget. The program is open to all research, educational organizations and business representatives from all over the world. Read more
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How does EU help Ukraine in science and innovation
From 2014 to 2018, the EU Horizon 2020 programme provided 184 projects of 110 Ukrainian private and public enterprises, research institutes and universities with grants worth a total of nearly EUR 21.7 million. The National Aerospace University “KhAI” received the largest funding of more than EUR 1.8 million in Kharkiv. The university implements several projects to make airplanes more powerful, reduce fuel consumption and harmful emissions into the atmosphere. Read more
EU helps displaced women from Crimea to open mini bakery in Kakhovka
In 2016, two residents of Alushta, researchers of the Crimean Natural Reserve moved from Crimea to Kakhovka in the Kherson region. Iryna Mamrotska and Olena Burziieva decided to start it from scratch. And if in Crimea they once explored trees and insects, they are now cooking dishes of the Crimean Tatar cuisine and implementing their own mini-business project. They are happy with their business. They bake 400 pirozhki, yantiks and chebureks each every day. Read more
The EU helps to protect electoral rights of Ukrainians
Ukraine has the framework exercising parliamentary control over the observance of human rights, which is the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights. An “ombudsman” in accordance with the European terminology. They cooperate with him on the issues of observing the rights of persons at places of confinement, discrimination, protection of the rights of children, women, etc. However, the ombudsman does not have a structure that would deal with the electoral rights of citizens for now. Read more
EU-funded online simulator of decision-making in hromadas
There is the ATC simulator on the Internet within the framework of decentralization. The game is based on typical challenges and problems of local self-government. You will have to make important decisions in the life of your community that can affect a variety of factors. Read more
How EU helps Ukrainian scientists make world-class discoveries
As you know, to reach the horizon, an imaginary line of the earth touching the sky, is physically impossible. Since the earth is round, as much as we try to get closer to it, it gets farther anyways. However, some people sometimes manage to prove that impossible is nothing. Physicists of Uzhhorod National University, for example, managed to achieve almost a fantastic result: to be recognized by the leading European research centers, and get a significant financial “bonus” with it. Read more
EU finances intercultural projects in rural schools
Dariia has been teaching English at the Novopillia Educational Complex near the city of Kryvyi Rih for 12 years already. In 2014, she encountered a post about the eTwinning Plus program on social media, which allowed implementing foreign projects, communicating in foreign languages with European states. Read more
