UKRAINIAN SPACE COOPERATION WITH THE EU

A first workshop on GMES was held on November 26-27th at NSAU premises

Thursday, 27 November 2008 00:00

A first high level seminar was organized with NSAU on November 26-27th 2008 and gathered in the Conference Hall of PAO about 40 participants. We were able to convince key GMES players from EU and from ESA, as well as from the Industry to participate to this seminar as guest-speakers (they come at their own expense). Four experts from DLR completed the German team. Two additional German experts from the Galileo program attended as observers. The seminar was opened by Mr Eduard Kuznietsov, deputy general director of NSAU. On the Ukrainian side Mr Oleg Fedorov, director of the Space Researche institute, and  NSAU Research department  director, led an impressive team gathering all Ukrainian players in GMES as well as representatives from the Ministry of Agriculture and the Agrarian Academy as end-users.  

The objectives (presentations of the GMES European program and GEO-UA Ukrainian program, opportunities to participate to GMES program, role to play…) and the expectations (joint understanding, identification of opportunities and partnerships…) were almost totally fulfilled.

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A third workshop on the 7th Framework Program (FP7) was held in Kiev at NSAU on November 18-19th

Tuesday, 18 November 2008 00:00

The third workshop held on November 18-19th 2008, was dedicated to the fine tuning and the finalization of the four projects selected in the previous seminar. It gathered only selected participants involved in the "mature" projects (roughly 18 participants). Main participants are represented on the picture

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A first exploratory visit of German experts on Norms and Standards took place on October 27-29th, 2008 at NSAU

Thursday, 30 October 2008 00:00

The new German expert team, seven high level specialists in European Standards and Norms  led by Dr Andreas Jain from DLR, visited Kiev on October 27-30th in order to meet their Ukrainian counterparts. This exploratory meeting had the objective to understand the normative system used in Ukraine in the Space in Kiev and to assess how far it is from the one used in Europe. Mr Eduard Kuznietsov, deputy general director of NSAU welcomed the experts and opened the working session.

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The second FP7 workshop was held in NSAU on October 8-9th, 2008

Friday, 10 October 2008 00:00

This second workshop, held on week 41 (October 6-10th, 2008) was based on real cases and gathered roughly 30 attendees from more then 20 organizations (institutes, universities, design offices and companies).  The workshop was opened by Mr Eduard Kuznietsov, deputy general director of NSAU. The first morning was devoted to review and analyze the Ukrainian previous proposals to the first FP7 Space call .  The afternoon was used to review the actual proposals to the ongoing  Space tender call. They were split in two groups, a GMES one and a Space Foundations one. The following day allowed the in-depth analysis of the proposals (in the morning by groups) and the selection of four “mature” projects for the next workshop (in the afternoon in a plenary session).