The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has approved a draft president’s decree granting powers to the Minister of Education and Science to sign an agreement on Ukraine’s accession to the European Union’s Horizon Europe program, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on October 10.
“Ukraine will join the EU program for research and innovation, which has a budget of almost 100 billion euros. The goal of the program is to solve global problems and promote industrial modernization. For Ukraine, this opens up new horizons for cooperation with EU countries in all scientific fields, and also provides additional financial opportunities for our scientific institutions,” Shmyhal wrote on his Facebook page.
He also said that the decree provides for joining the Euroatom program for research and training in the field of nuclear energy.
