Cooperation agreements
The international scientific cooperation of the Institute includes participation in the activities of the International Landslide Consortium, which operates under the auspices of UNESCO. The Institute, represented by its Director Oleksandr Trofimchuk, represents Ukraine in the said consortium and coordinates the participation of Ukrainian institutions and organisations in the activities of this international society. As a result of the work of the international competition commission under the auspices of UNESCO to assess achievements in the field of landslide hazard and mitigation of its negative consequences, in 2020, ITGIP NASU received the certificate ‘World Centre of Excellence on Landslide Disaster Reduction’.
International cooperation is also taking place in solving the ecological, geological and water-ecological problems of uncontrolled (auto-rehabilitation) flooding of mines in the Zakarpattia region (EU Civil Protection Team, Advisory Mission to Ukraine ‘Solotvyno Salt Mine Area’, 2016-2019), Donbas (Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Switzerland, 2016-2019). Based on the results of field expeditionary research, relevant reports and information were prepared for the Ministry of Ecology, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine and other ministries and departments, state administrations and other institutions.
The Institute has signed cooperation agreements with foreign partners:
- Maria Curie Skłodowska University (Poland, Lublin), where a framework cooperation agreement was signed. The subject of the agreement is the organisation of joint scientific, methodological, organisational and practical work on the implementation of technological support for quality control processes in the higher education system and the creation of a joint virtual International Laboratory of Information Technology in the quality assurance system in education. In the course of the implementation of this agreement in 2018, joint scientific, methodological and practical developments were carried out to introduce technological support for quality control processes in higher education.
- Aktobe Research Geological and Exploration Oil Institute OJSC (OJSC AktobeNIGRI, Republic of Kazakhstan, Aktobe) – support of the trial operation of information technology elements (developed by ITGIS NASU) to ensure remote monitoring of natural resources, increase the efficiency of exploration, ensure environmental safety, as well as support of the industrial operation of the ‘Software and Modelling System for Forecasting Hydroaerodynamic Impacts and Development of Ecological and Aeration Processes’;
- Institute of Oceanology of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The subject of the agreement is a long-term relationship to improve efficiency and ensure optimal results of their activities. This includes conducting and implementing the results of state, national and international projects, scientific, technical and information cooperation, etc.
- The cooperation of ITGIS NAS of Ukraine with the Department of Mathematical Modelling of the John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin and with the Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus continued.
Participation in international and foreign organisations and projects:
In 2023 -2024, Professor Vasyl Ustymenko, together with Professor Grahame Erskine (Scotland), Professor James Tuite (England) and Dr Tymoteusz Chojecki, implemented the international project ‘Investigation of algebraic graphs of large girth and their cryptographic properties’ with the support of the British Academy of Sciences, where he was the project leader.
In 2024, the Institute is a partner institution of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in the Horizont 2020 project ‘Environmental and economic optimisation of logistics infrastructure in the conditions of war and post-war reconstruction of Ukraine’, the project coordinator from the Institute is Doctor of Technical Sciences. The main objective of the project is to study the current state of ship routes and the impact of hostilities on their condition in the context of the possibility of their use, namely the inland ship routes of the Southern Ukraine – ‘Danube-Black Sea’, the Dnipro and Southern Bug routes, to identify objects of natural and artificial origin, including potential navigation hazards. Investigation and assessment of the current state of hydraulic structures that ensure the navigation of the Southern Ukraine and the possibilities of their safe operation, including the impact of hostilities, destruction, temporary occupation and identification of opportunities for their restoration.
In 2020-2022, the project of the International Landslide Consortium ‘IPL-254 Ukraine cultural heritage objects within landslide hazardous sites’ was implemented. Project leaders: Trofymchuk O.M., Kaliukh Y.I. The main goal of the project is to certify the cultural heritage sites of Ukraine on landslide hazardous slopes: experimental and analytical research on the example of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.
The Institute of Telecommunications and Global Information Space of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine participates in international projects: Global Environment Facility and the Danish Institute of Technology (2019-2020) and the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (Switzerland), Donbas Initiative (2015-2021).
From 2015-2019, the project of the International Landslide Consortium ‘IPL-191 Landslide hazard zonation in Carpathian region of Ukraine using GIS’ was implemented. Project leaders: Trofymchuk O.M., Yakovlev E.O. The main goal is to develop a tool for predicting landslide hazards in order to minimise the impact of landslide activation on people and material objects, including buildings, transport services, pipelines, etc.
International grant under the TEMPUS INARM project for 2012-2015 530601-TEMPUS-1-2012-1-PL-TEMPUS-SMHES: Informatics and Management: Qualification Framework in line with the Bologna Process. This project involves 25 partners from 9 countries: Poland, Germany, Italy, Slovakia, the Netherlands, Austria, Russia, Armenia and Ukraine. The project aims to introduce the idea of a qualification framework in computer science and management in the ENPI countries. It is planned to improve educational standards based on: data collected from important potential employers; new European approaches to qualification frameworks and programme customisation. New standards will be prepared on the basis of the National Qualification Requirements, taking into account EU experience. It is planned to discuss the experience of retraining employees of universities and ministries involved in the process of developing national standards in EU universities.
International grant under the TEMPUS INURE project for 2012-2015 530181- TEMPUS-1-2012-1-DE- TEMPUS-SMGR: Integrated University Management System: EU experience in the CIS countries. This project involves 19 partners from 8 countries: Germany, Poland, France, the Netherlands, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine. The overall goal of the project is to develop and implement a comprehensive integrated management information system at universities in Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova, based on European experience and on the achievements of the universities. Specific objectives are aimed at adapting to EU conditions and practices in the development and use of an integrated management information system, developing a guide to the principles and practices of building and effectively using an integrated management information system. In addition, the project aims to develop and integrate new university management software based on the analysis of information flows and existing university management systems used in partner universities.
In 2012-2014, the International Landslide Consortium project IPL 153 ‘Landslide protection structures’, ‘Landslide protection structures and their development in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine (ARCU)’ was implemented. Within the framework of the IPL Project No. 153 ‘Landslide protection structures and their development in the ARC’ (period: January 2012 – December 2014), information on landslide protection measures and activities was collected and structured, the prospects for their development in the ARC of Ukraine were studied, and a target database was created.
Since 2015-2017, the project of the International Landslide Consortium IPL 191, ‘Landslide hazard zonation of the Carpathian region of Ukraine using GIS’, was implemented. The main goal of the project was to develop a landslide hazard forecasting tool to minimise the impact of landslide activation on people and material objects, including buildings, transport services, pipelines, etc. in the regions of Ukraine; to develop a database containing engineering and geological information on landslide site descriptors (passports); to develop targeted GIS of landslides in the Carpathian region of Ukraine.
The Institute of Telecommunications and Global Information Space of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine participates in international projects: Global Environment Facility and the Danish Institute of Technology (2019-2020) and the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (Switzerland), Donbas Initiative (2015-2021).
The Institute's employees participated in the work of international organisations, committees and councils:
Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine O.M. Trofymchuk is a member of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnics; representative of Ukraine in the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL).
Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Professor O.M. Trofymchuk has been a member of the Scientific Committee of the Earth & Planetary Sciences (EPS) Sector of the SGEM International Multidisciplinary Geoscience Conference since 2020, and is the only representative of the Ukrainian scientific community in the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences.
Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Professor O.M. Trofymchuk is also a member of the SGEM WORLD SCIENCE (SWS) Scientific Advisory Board, which consists of distinguished representatives of academies of sciences and arts, as well as universities from around the world, who play a key role in guiding and promoting progress in the fields of science, art and the intersections between them.
Professor Ustymenko is a member of the organising committee of the international conferences ITTAP -2024, ITTAP – 2023 and ITTAP -2022 (International Workshops on Information Technologies: Theoretical and Applied Problems), organised by Ivan Puluj Ternopil National Technical University and Opole Technical University (Poland).
The National Institute of Standardisation Technology of the United States of America invited V.O. Ustymenko to participate in the Workshop of the National Institute of Standardisation Technology (USA), WPEC 2024: NIST Workshop on Privacy-Enhancing Cryptography, 24.09.2024 -26.09.2024. At the end of this event, V. Ustymenko received a certificate of participation.
In 2023 -2024, Professor Vasyl Ustymenko, together with Professor Grahame Erskin (Scotland), Professor James Tuite (England) and Dr Tymoteusz Chojecki, completed the international project ‘Investigation of algebraic graphs of large girth and their cryptographic properties’ with the support of the British Academy of Sciences. He was the project leader of this project. The project was funded on a competitive basis by the British Academy/Cara/Leverhulme Research Support grant LTRSF\100333.
S.A. Zahorodnia is associated as a Senior Associate at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge (for the period April 2023 to 30 September 2025). The purpose of the collaboration is to exchange experience and participate in the college’s educational activities.
In 2024, Professor Vasyl Ustymenko, together with Professor Grahame Erskin (Scotland), Professor James Tuite (England) and Dr Tymoteusz Chojecki, completed an international project ‘Investigation of algebraic graphs of large girth and their cryptographic properties’ with the support of the British Academy of Sciences.
Ustymenko Vasyl Olexandrovych was awarded a British Academy scholarship to support his Visiting Professorship at Royal Holloway University of London.
Dr Ustymenko is a professor at the Marie Curie Skłodowska University in Lublin (Poland).
The staff of the institute are E.S. Anpilova, Ph, D., and N.A. Shevyakina, Ph.D., studied remotely at the Vancouver Island University, Vancouver, Canada, took advanced training courses at the National Technical University of Ukraine ‘Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute’, ‘World Data Centre for Geoinformatics and Sustainable Development’ (Kyiv) and received the relevant certificates.
V.O. Okharev, Doctor of Science, Candidate of Technical Sciences, took an internship ‘International Partnership Projects – Step by Step’ in Spiske Podhradie (Slovak Republic) from 10 to 15 November 2019 and received a Certificate of Academic Mobility from the Catholic University of Ruzomberok, as well as a diploma of advanced training from the University of Social Sciences (Lodz, Poland).
At the KROK University, Educational and Research Institute of Master’s Training and Postgraduate Education (Kyiv), Sheviakina N.A. completed the Project Management programme and received a certificate in 2019.
Scientific Secretary of the Institute, Candidate of Technical Sciences, S.S. Klymenko V.I. took part in the IIASC Summer School in Italy within the framework of the project ‘Ukrainians support chain’ from 27.07.2018-03.08.2018, organised by the Institute for International Academic and Scientific Cooperation in cooperation with the Polish ADD Foundation.
At the invitation of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Dr Iakovlev was invited to Germany to study the experience of mine closure in Ruhr at the Georg Agricola University in 2018.
N.A. Sheviakina and S.A. Zahorodnia received Certificates of completion of the training for trainers in environmental impact assessment from the International Charitable Organisation ‘Environment-Law-Human’, 14-15 March 2018.
Ph.D. Kriazhych O.O. was trained at the Institute of Technology and Business in Český Budějovice.
At the National Technical University of Ukraine ‘Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute’, the Ukrainian-Korean Training Centre for Information Technologies, Iryna Shytikova studied under the programme ‘Grid technologies and metacomputing’ from 1.10.2018 to 15.12.2018.
From Intela Education (Canada), Anpilova E.S. received the IBM Data Science Bootcamp Course Certificate dated 19.08.2017 and the Data Visualisation with Tableau Course Certificate dated 15.08.2017.
Klymenko V.I. and Sheviakina N.A. received Certificates of participation in the training programme for teachers of higher education institutions ‘Publishing and project activities in the European Union: practical experience’ from the Prague Institute of Advanced Studies (Prague, Czech Republic) in 2016.
Candidate of Technical Sciences Sheviakina N.A. and Scientific Secretary Klymenko V.I. were trained at the Prague Institute of Advanced Studies (Prague, Czech Republic) on 20-27 November 2016 and received Certificates of participation in the training programme for teachers of higher education institutions ‘Publishing and project activities in the European Union: practical experience’.
