According to the EU Delegation to Ukraine, the National Aerospace University “Kharkiv Aviation Institute” is the most successful participant of the Horizon 2020 programme in the country.
The institution received more than €1.8 million in grant funding from the EU for the implementation of six projects. Five of them are devoted to aviation and one to cybersecurity.
These projects are aimed at popularising Ukrainian aviation, the exchange of experience and training of specialists, as well as scientific developments.
As part of the Clean Sky 2 Global Initiative, scientists in Kharkiv are working on new generations of European planes that are more environmentally friendly and powerful.
Horizon 2020 is the EU’s biggest ever framework programme for financing and encouraging research and innovation projects, with a budget of €77 billion over seven years (2014–2020).
The vast majority of this funding will be allocated on the basis of competitive calls which are open to applications from researchers, businesses and other interested organisations located in any of the EU Member States or countries associated to Horizon 2020, including the Eastern Neighbourhood countries Armenia, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine.
