Specialists of HEOinUA joined the German-Ukrainian Workshop on Best Practice in Research and Development Funding
On July 16, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF) together with the National Research Foundation of Ukraine held an online event dedicated to the best research and development funding practices. Employees of the department Horizon Europe Office in Ukraine, NRFU took part in the joint event. The workshop was organized to expand the boundaries of cooperation, exchange of experience and knowledge in order to improve activities in the area of grant support for scientists, researchers and innovators of both countries.
The event opened with welcome speeches Dr. Oliver Pieper, Deputy Head of BMBF’s Division – Cooperation with Eastern European Countries (non-EU), South Caucasus, Central Asia, and Olga Polotska, Executive Director of the National Research Foundation of Ukraine. She emphasized the importance of sharing experience, as Germany is one of the leading participants in the European Research Area.
During the workshop some important topics were covered, among them:
- Germans Research and Innovation System: Facts, Figures and Strategy
- German Research Landscape with a Focus on the Allocation and Evaluation of Institutional Funding
- Programme Development and Evaluation of Project Funding
- Conception of Calls, Project Selection and Funding, Project Monitoring and Reporting; Programme Evaluation
- Project Selection and Evaluation by the German Research Foundation.
The audience had the opportunity to ask the speakers questions directly after the presentations and get answers to everything they were interested in.
The speakers on the event – representatives of BMBF’s Divisions: Innovation and Transfer Policy Issues, Future Research and Innovation Strategy, Coordination; Policy Issues, Digitalization and Transfer; Fundamental Issues of Education and Research, Coordination; also specialists of the DLR Project Management Agency (DLR Projektträger), and German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).