November 19, the final conference of the Ukrainian project – Competition “Go into the virtual highway of endless possibilities of your future business” was held at the Hall of the Academic Council of NTUU “KPI”.
This is a project of the Polish Foundation of Communication (Warsaw, Poland) and the European Innovation Agency (Lviv, Ukraine), which is funded and carried out within the framework of the program “Assistance for the development of Poland 2014”. Its participants are full-time students and graduates of Ukrainian universities. NTUU “KPI” together with the Donetsk National University, Odessa National Polytechnic University, Lviv Institute of Banking of the University of banking NBU and Lviv Centre of Science, Innovations and Informatization are among the main partners of this competition. Project goal is the improving of the knowledge of Ukrainian students – potential entrepreneurs about new technologies and enable them to obtain the appropriate skills; search for sources of funding for projects future entrepreneurs; promotion the development in Ukraine of human capital and business skills.Theme of the project was clearly defined: innovation in the digital economy; new technologies in the field of ICT; e-business, e-commerce, e-service.
To participate in the contest applicants filed 72 applications. The jury selected 65 of them. The geography projects covers all of Ukraine. Their authors have participated in training courses held in Kyiv and Lviv, talked to Polish experts by videoconference. 8 participants reached the final. They presented their business plans at the final conference in NTUU “KPI”.
At the opening ceremony, Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Maksim Strikha said: “I am very pleased that during this conference you will hear all about the experience of Polish partners. The fact that Poland – not only our closest strategic ally in the world. This country is really supports us in these very difficult days when the other country that has long been considered an ally, leads against us undeclared war. Poland also has an experience of very similar transformation …. So for us it is extremely important – it tells a lot of new recipes that we can apply and will certainly do it. “
The counselor of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Ukraine, Head of the project on scientific and educational cooperation Anna Kuzma said in her speach about the Polish-Ukrainian Cooperation: “Polish-Ukrainian strategic partnership (partnership – is the main word!) is really now implemented. This bilateral cooperation, it is not that “big brother” tells that “little brother”. We are very pleased to implement projects that have a future; projects that serve the development. We are very pleased to cooperate with Ukrainian scientists, because really the intellectual potential of Ukraine is very high. And we are very pleased that we can share our experience. We simply went a few steps further by the way that now Ukraine is moving into Europe. Poland really is probably the most of the opportunities that gave her the EU. And now Poland, received a lot of help from Europe, from America, from the world, wants to share it now. Since this can have a very big effect”.
The coordinator of the program “On the virtual highway” Krzysztof Peha said more about the project, “Go into the virtual highway”.
But very real obstacles are waiting any innovation project, even if in its name is the word “virtual”. About what are these barriers and how to overcome them, the participants of the panel “E-business in Ukraine” talked: the successful history of ups and downs, the legal obstacles”. President of the NGO “European Agency for Innovation” Ivan Kulchitskii was the moderator of the discussions.
Conference participants also discussed the support of innovation in universities, and from the first hands learned about the experience of the Science Park “Kyiv Polytechnic” and start-up of the school «Sikorsky Challenge». Jaroslav Kologrivov – Director of Intellectual Property and Science Park Inna Malyukova – Director of Training Center “Institute of Postgraduate Education” informed them about it.
And, of course, all those who took part in the conference, familiarize themselves with the top eight business projects selected by the jury, and congratulate the winners, whose names after the presentations of projects and the hard work of the judges were declared by the founder of the Polish Foundation Communications Isabella Bartschik-Ol’shevskaya. They are:
1. The project team QA Lance – Artem Polyakov, Vyacheslav Gornostal;
2. The project team The Rain Children – Vladislav Moskalenko, Alina Trush and Dmitry Stadnik;
3. The project team MyRasp – Ivan Matyas, Yevgeny Kiselyov and Michael Churilov.
Each winning team to implement their projects in life was awarded a certificate for the amount of 2,000 USD.
On the photo: Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Maksim Strikha
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