European Institute of Innovation and Technology: possibilities of cooperation within Horizon 2020

      Representatives of NUBiP of Ukraine such head of NCC Horizon Natalia Demeshkant, deputy head of ULQSAP Oksana Samkova and head of Finance and Economy Department of UKQSAP Olha Los took part in a working meeting which aimed at enabling researchers from countries of Eastern Europe (Regional Innovation Scheme (EIT RIS) to partake in events within the project EIT Food (European Institute of Innovation and Technology).   
     The event took place at Faculty of Management of Warsaw University. The head of this meeting was the principal of north-eastern centre of EIT Food, professor Kryshtof Klimtsevich.

     A wide range of European experts from France, Italy, Estonia, Romania, Portugal participated in this event. They shared the experience of their countries in the sphere of developing professional groups supported by EIT Food (EIT Hubs). Katerina Sereti, a coordinator of international projects in political support and relations with stakeholers of European Commission said that the goal of this project was to support the creating around 350 agro-starts in the next seven years, to enable more than 10,000 students to get their Master’s degrees supported by EIT Food, to create 290 new products, services or technologies; to reduce the greenhouse gas contamination due to the production of agricultural and food products by 40% by 2030.

     The program of EIT Food project realization was presented at this meeting and according to this program there will be announced a number of contests, starting from November 2017, Ukrainian researchers and students will also be able to apply for these projects.

     We recommend to subscribe to www.eitfood.eu to know about the oncoming contests.

     Information Day Horizon 2020 will present the details of functioning EIT Food and possibilities of cooperation with partners of this project.

Serhii Bondarenko,
head of the centre supporting international projects