THE CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION AND INNOVATION PROMOTION OF UKRAINE

Their core work

UKRTECHINFORM is Ukraine's national center for scientific and technical information, operating under state mandate to promote Ukrainian participation in the European Research Area and facilitate R&I cooperation between Ukraine and the EU. In practice, they work as a policy bridge: supporting Ukrainian research organizations in accessing European programs, organizing policy dialogues between Ukrainian and European science ministries, and connecting Ukrainian researchers with European networks, clusters, and technology platforms. Within H2020, they contributed institutional knowledge of Ukraine's science system and acted as a national access point for European cooperation initiatives. Their value is not in conducting research themselves, but in reducing the friction between Ukrainian scientific capacity and European funding and collaboration opportunities.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Both projects fall within the same 2016–2019 window, so the evolution is narrow but readable. The earlier project (RI-LINKS2UA) centers on bilateral Ukraine-EU research links — strengthening the institutional bridge between Ukraine and the European Research Area as a whole. The later project (EaP PLUS) expands the frame outward to the entire Eastern Partnership region, introducing operational tools like grants for networking, clusters, and technology platforms rather than just policy dialogue. The signal is a shift from bilateral advocacy work toward multilateral network-building with concrete instruments attached.

UKRTECHINFORM appears to be moving from bilateral Ukraine-EU policy work toward broader regional roles in Eastern Partnership science coordination, with increasing emphasis on operational networking tools rather than pure policy dialogue.

How they like to work

UKRTECHINFORM has never led an H2020 project — both participations are as a consortium member, which is consistent with a national information and facilitation body rather than a research performer. They bring institutional legitimacy and national access rather than technical leadership. With 21 unique partners across 17 countries from just two projects, they operate comfortably in large, geographically dispersed consortia, likely contributing country-specific knowledge, stakeholder access, and dissemination channels within Ukraine.

UKRTECHINFORM has engaged with 21 unique partners across 17 countries through only two projects, indicating they join broad, multi-country consortia rather than tight bilateral collaborations. Their network skews toward Eastern Europe and EU member states with active Eastern Partnership mandates.

What sets them apart

UKRTECHINFORM holds a state-mandated role as Ukraine's national STI information center, giving them formal standing in government-to-government and institution-to-institution science diplomacy that no private or academic body in Ukraine can replicate. For European consortia targeting Ukrainian participation or Eastern Partnership engagement, they offer direct access to Ukrainian research communities, national policy channels, and dissemination infrastructure across Ukraine's science system. Following Ukraine's association with Horizon Europe, their role as an institutional gateway has become more, not less, relevant.

Highlights from their portfolio

• EaP PLUS
  The larger of the two projects (EUR 140,125) and the broadest in scope — covering all six Eastern Partnership countries — making it UKRTECHINFORM's most significant demonstration of regional multilateral coordination capacity.
• RI-LINKS2UA
  Directly named after Ukraine as a target country, this project represents the clearest expression of UKRTECHINFORM's core mandate: strengthening research and innovation links between Ukraine and the EU.