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Український кластерний альянс

Professionals4Ukraine – Building a Common Agenda for the Recovery of Ukraine

August 27–29, Kyiv–Lviv

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The Professionals4Ukraine program brings together professionals from 17 countries to help Ukrainian clusters and their members meet the challenges of wartime and prepare for Ukraine’s recovery. The program is a key instrument of cluster internationalization in Ukrainian Cluster Alliance (UCA). 

On 27 August, our foreign ambassadors from Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania and France meet with Western Ukrainian clusters and their partners in Lviv. 28–29 August, they arrive in Kyiv to meet with clusters from the Central and Eastern regions, as well as representatives of the Kyiv innovation ecosystem. 

This series of meetings is open for large categories of UCA’s partners and international organizations to demonstrate the potential of Ukrainian clusters and perspectives of collaboration in the Recovery of Ukraine programs.

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The conference is being held with the support of the European Union and the International Renaissance Foundation within the framework «European Renaissance of Ukraine» project.
Its content is the exclusive responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union and the International Renaissance Foundation.

August 26 – Lviv
Program for foreign participants and guests only
  •  Visit to the Unbroken rehabilitation center 
  • Meetings at Lviv Polytechnic 
  • Visit to the Superhumans office

10:00

Unbroken Rehabilitation Center

11:30

Production of military summaries for medicine, standardized according to the NATO standard

13:00

Lunch in the center is possible

14:00

Production of hydrogel bandages Lviv Polytechnic

16:00

Superhuman

17:00

Conclusion

August 27 – Lviv + online
Topics of discussions and meetings
  • Regional and cross-border cooperation.
  • The role of regional administrations in cluster development.
  • Lviv innovation ecosystem – experience and best practices.
  • UCA initiatives in the field of energy and defence.
  • Best cases and practices of Professionals4Ukraine.

The language of communication is English with translation.

9:30
Welcome coffee

10:00
Welcome speech (Lviv City Council)

Luigi De Bernardini, CEO, Autoware / member of Control System Integrator Association

10:20
Overview of Professionals4Ukraine network activities (Oleksandr Yurchak)

10:40
Best cases of the network Professionals4Ukraine

  • Clusters4Defence (Mike Richardson, Germany - Ireland)
  • Collaboration in Industry 4.0 (Adrian Jasik, Poland)

11:10

Coffee break

11:30
Parallel pitching sessions / discussions 'Developing common agenda – areas and projects of cross-border cooperation'

  • Defence industry (moderators – Oleksa Vozniak (UA), Mike Richardson (GE-IR))
    • UA pitches: 1) Photonics - Kyiv 2) Quantum technologies (Lviv); 3) Drones - Lviv Tech cluster; 4) Olga Millward (UCA), 5) Rivne medical cluster
  • Cluster development (moderators – Vasyl Tkachuk (UA), Florian Andrews (GE))
    • UA pitches: Lviv medical cluster, Lviv furniture cluster, Lviv city institute
  • Cross-border cooperation – regional projects (moderators – Oleksandr Yurchak (UA), Marius Geru (RO), Loic Marin (FR, TBC)Andrzej Czulak (PL ))
    • UA pitches: Agency of regional development Lviv, Major Club, Lviv Energy cluster
  • Visit to Tech Startup School / EDIH laboratories (Lviv's Politechnica)
  • Meeting with SoftServe and Lviv IT Cluster.
  • City walk.
August 28 – Kyiv + online
Topics of discussions and meetings
  • Ukraine’s Recovery projects – prospects for cooperation.
  • Best practices of clusters and projects for Resilience and Recovery of Ukraine.
  • The role of clusters in wartime.
  • Mechanisms to support international cooperation of clusters.

The language of the event is English without translation.

10:00
Welcome coffee.

10:30
Welcome speech (Jakub Boratynski (TBC) European Commission / Andriy Telupa, Ministry of Economy of Ukraine).

10:50
UCA projects for the Recovery of Ukraine:

  • Top 10 UCA projects (Resource Centers and Committees, Oleksandr Yurchak).
  • Presentations of cluster cases 
    • Ukrainian association of Furniture industry - Oksana Donska
    • Kharkiv IT cluster - Olena Loyenko
    • APPAU - Andriy Boroduk
    • Podillya Fashion Cluster - Oksana Zakharkevych

11:15
Ukraine Recovery Projects (Taras Golub, member of EUCCD).

12:30
Coffee break / networking&meeting with project coordinators at the UCA stands.

12:45
Panel discussion ‘The role of clusters in the wartime economy’ (participants from UCA – Bogdan Shapoval, Oksana Donska, from foreign partners — Mike Richardson, Adrian Jasik). Moderator - Oleksandr Yurchak.

14:00
Lunch.

15:00
Panel discussion ‘Mechanisms of cooperation between Ukrainian and European clusters’ (participants from UCA – Oleksandr Yurchak, Tetiana Vorontsova, from foreign participants – Florian Andrews, Marius Geru, Loic Marin). Moderator - Mykhaylo Krykunov.

16:15
Conference conclusions/perspectives of Professionals4Ukraine for 2025 (Oleksandr Yurchak).

16:30
Closing of the event.

August 29 – Kyiv
The program is only for foreign participants and guests of the city
  • Visit to the innovation park «UNIT.City».
  • A roundtable discussion at EDIH «Kyiv Hitech» – a collaboration of EDIHs in Eastern Europe
  • Meetings with representatives of Kyiv’s innovative ecosystem.
Registration
Due to the large number of applicants, we are closing offline registration. You can only participate online

Participation in events is free, under the term of registration.
For further information, please contact Lesia Sobolevska, lesia.sobolevska@appau.org.ua

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