NATO

Collaboration between Ukraine and NATO in the field of science started in 1991. Throughout all the time it was attended by almost 1 thousand Ukrainian scientists.

Since 2004 the NATO scientific agenda has become the «Science for Peace and Security» program (SPS). This program brings together researchers and experts from Ukraine and NATO countries that solve security issues through scientific cooperation. The priority issues of the program are the development of information technologies, cell biology and biotechnology, new materials, environmental protection, rational use of natural resources, as well as scientific developments in the area of combating terrorism and new threats.

The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine is the main executor of a number of major annual events under the subprogram "Science" in the National Program of Ukraine-NATO Cooperation. The key facilitating mechanism of coordination in cooperation between Ukraine and NATO in the field of science is the NATO-Ukraine Joint Working Group (JWG) on Scientific and Environmental Cooperation, created in 2000. The JWG meetings take place once a year alternately in Brussels and Kyiv.

As of November 2017, 39 long-term projects involving Ukrainian research institutions totaling about $ 10 million were running.