Cooperation agreements
The Institute actively cooperates with the International Landslide Consortium, which operates under the auspices of UNESCO. The Institute, represented by its Director Oleksandr Trofymchuk, is the representative of Ukraine in the said consortium and coordinator of the participation of Ukrainian institutions and organisations in the activities of the said international society. In 2017, the Application Form for the World Centre of Excellence on Landslide Risk Reduction 2017-2020 was prepared by the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine within the framework of the international organisation ICL under the auspices of UNESCO (the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine has been the only member from Ukraine since 2009). An authoritative circle of international experts gave ratings to 20 countries and organisations around the world. ITGIS NASU was ranked 13th out of 15 winners. The diploma was awarded to the Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Trofimchuk O.M. at the World Landslide Forum in June 2017 in Ljubljana. International cooperation is very active in solving ecological, geological and water-ecological problems of uncontrolled (auto-rehabilitation) flooding of mines in the Transcarpathian 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. In addition, recommendations were prepared to improve monitoring, taking into account the flooding of the Yunkom coal mines (nuclear explosion chamber, 1979), near the Horlivka chemical plant (poisoning of mine workings with toxic compounds, 1988), and threats to the quality of the Siverskyi Donets River runoff as the main source of drinking and household water supply in Donbas. Cooperation with the EU CPT (Solotvyno) allowed for the first time to perform a comprehensive spatial and temporal assessment of long-term environmental and technological threats of uncontrolled flooding of the Solotvyno salt mine mines using modern technologies (2-3-dimensional models, sputnik height radar, etc.), to prepare proposals for improving the transboundary environmental monitoring unit and to determine the possible level of anthropogenic changes in the transboundary flow of the Tisa River. The international assessment of environmental and technological risk for the Solotvyno agglomeration and the Zakarpattia region is currently being refined on the basis of the methodological work performed. Cooperation with the Henri Dunant Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (Switzerland) is aimed at improving the monitoring of environmental threats from massive flooding of Donbas coal mines in the government-controlled and non-government-controlled areas as a result of the armed conflict. Based on the results of the expeditionary survey of backup sources of drinking water supply in Central Donbas (government and non-government controlled areas, 2016), the Humanitarian Dialogue Centre obtained for the first time regional estimates of contamination of backup drinking water supply points (up to 88% of 61 points – mine wells, boreholes, springs, reservoirs) and the risk of negative impact on the health of the local population.
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.
The Institute carried out work under 2 grants of international and foreign organisations and projects:
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 project of the International Landslide Consortium IPL 153 ‘Landslide protection structures’, ‘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).
Employees of the Institute participated in the work of international organisations, committees and councils:
Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine O.M. Trofimchuk is a member of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnics; representative of Ukraine in the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL); Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences V.O. Ustymenko is a professor at the Marie Curie Skłodowska University in Lublin (Poland). Scientific Secretary of the Institute, PhD, 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. N.A. Sheviakina, Candidate of Technical Sciences, and V.I. Klymenko, Scientific Secretary, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Candidate of Technical Sciences, were trained at the Prague Institute for Advanced Training (Prague, Czech Republic) on November 20-27, 2016 and received Certificates of Participation in the Advanced Training Programme for Higher Education Teachers ‘Publishing and Project Activities in the European Union: Practical Experience’. At the invitation of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Yakovlev was invited to Germany to study the experience of mine closure in Ruhr at the Georg Agricola University in 2018. S.S., Ph.D. Kriazhych O.O. is undergoing an internship at the Institute of Technology and Business in Český Budějovice. V.O. Okharev, PhD in Engineering, 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 Ružomberok, as well as a diploma of advanced training from the University of Social Sciences (Lodz, Poland). Employees of the Institute: Candidate of Technical Sciences Anpilova E.S., Candidate of Technical Sciences Klymenko V.I., Candidate of Technical Sciences Krasovska I.G, D. in Engineering, D.L. Kreta, 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. 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. N.A. Shevyakina and S.A. Zagorodnya received Certificates of completion of the training for trainers on environmental impact assessment, 14-15 March 2018, from the International Charitable Organisation ‘Environment-Law-Human’. From the Prague Institute of Advanced Studies (Prague, Czech Republic), Klymenko V.I. and Shevyakina N.A. received Certificates of participation in the programme of advanced training for teachers of higher education institutions ‘Publishing and project activities in the European Union: practical experience’ in 2016. At the National Technical University of Ukraine ‘Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute’ in 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. At the KROK University, Educational and Research Institute of Master’s Training and Postgraduate Education (Kyiv), Shevyakina N.A. completed the Project Management programme, received a certificate in 2019.
