International Scientific Congress "Globalistics-2103"
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On October 23-25, 2013 the third scientific congress "Globalistics-2013", dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of V.I. Vernadsky, was held at the Lomonosov Moscow State University on the initiative of the Faculty of global processes. The Congress was attended by more than 700 scientists from 40 countries. At this Congress World Data Center for Geoinformatics and Sustainable Development was represented by Deputy Director of WDC-Ukraine, I.O. Pyshnohraiev and employee of the international scientific and educational projects laboratory, I.S. Popadenko. |
Delegation from National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" and Shevchenko Kyiv National University visited Vancouver Island University (VIU, Canada)
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On October 21-27, 2013, a delegation from National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" and Shevchenko Kyiv National University visited Vancouver Island University (VIU, Canada), and this visit was devoted to the signing of the cooperation agreement between the universities in scopes of the Project "Laying the Foundation for a Spatial Data Infrastructure: Building Capacity within the Ukrainian Government to Support Sustainable Economic Growth" supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada. |
Joint Russian-Ukrainian seminar “Formation of Global Geoinformatic area for solution of interdisciplinary tasks in sphere of Earth Sciences”
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Joint Russian-Ukrainian seminar “Formation of Global Geoinformatic area for solution of interdisciplinary tasks in sphere of Earth Sciences” took place at NTUU “KPI” on 19th-20th of December. Representatives of scientific and research organizations like Russian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, World Data Center for Geoinformatics and Sustainable Development and NTUU “KPI” participated in the seminar. |
23rd International Conference of Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA)
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At 28th-31st of October 2012 in Taipei (Taiwan) 23rd International Conference of Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) - “Open Data and Information for Changing Planet” took place. |
Brazilian delegation visited WDC-Ukraine
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Brazilian delegation visited World Data Center for Geoinformatics and Sustainable development on june 13-th, 2012. Delegation consisted of the ambassador of Brazilian Republic in Ukraine - Antonio Fernando Cruz de Mello and the rector of Fluminense Federal University at Rio de Janeiro - Roberto de Souza Salles. |
Alex Shei Lecture
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Alex Shei (USA) - specialist in the sphere of renewable energy and reducing of greenhouse effect gave a lecture to the senior students and PH.Ds of NTUU "KPI" on April 9th, 2012. |
Visit of TU Berlin President
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Technical university of Berlin (TU Berlin) is a member of TU-9, which is a union of nine biggest technical universities of Germany. The aim of the visit of Jörg Steinbach to Kiev is a discussion of future collaboration plans of TU Berlin with NTUU “KPI”. Memorandum on collaboration between NTUU "KPI" and TU Berlin was signed as a result of the meeting. This memorandum contatins all main directions of future collaboration in scientific and educational spheres. |
Visit of University of North Texas Delegation
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Delegation of University of North Texas visited NTUU “KPI” at January 18th, 2012. Among the guests - Costas Tsatsoulis dean of the College of Engineering, Gabriel Carranza - assistant vice provost and Vladimir Shulaev – professor. |
Aleksey Gvishyani was elected to the acting members of RAS
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Another election of actual members (academicians) and corresponding and foreign members of Russian Academy of Science (RAS) were held during December 19th-21st. Election process had few stages – at first committee of experts studied lists of candidates, then each candidate was discussed during the meeting of the department. Final decision on each candidate was made during joint RAS meeting. |
International Symposium "Contemporary Tendencies in Transference of Centers of Science & Technology Activity on the European Area and Cross-Country Mobility of Scientists and Specialists"
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International Symposium "Contemporary Tendencies in Transference of Centers of Science & Technology Activity on the European Area and Cross-Country Mobility of Scientists and Specialists" took place in Kiev from 19th till 23rd of October, 2011. It was held within the international 7th Framework Program of European Comission BILAT-UKRAINE that is supported by NAS of Ukraine. |
Visit of the delegation of University College of Gjøvik (Kingdom of Norway)
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Meeting of scientists and professors of NTU "KPI" with the delegation of University College of Gjøvik (Kingdom of Norway) took place at October12, 2011 Among the delegates - Torbjørn Skogsrød (Dean, Faculty of Technology, Economy and Management at University College, Gjøvik) and his colleagues - Professor Christian Martinsen and Adne Middleton. |
Signing of the agreement between Slavutych City Council, Chernobyl Center (Slavutych) and WDC-Ukraine
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In the city of Slavutych at September 23, 2011 the meeting-seminar on cooperation of Slavutych City Council, State Research Institution "Chornobyl Center for Nuclear Safety, Radioactive Waste and Radioecology" (Chernobyl Center) of Slavutych, with World Data Center for Geoinformatics and Sustainable Development (WDC-Ukraine) took place. |
Visit of IBM vice-president
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Meeting of vice-president of IBM and also a general director of IBM in Eastern Europe and Asia Kyryl Kornilyev with rector of NTU "KPI" Michael Zgurovsky took place on September 22, 2011.During the meeting participants discussed prospects and areas of future cooperation for IBM and NTU "KPI". |
Meeting with Mayor of Slavutych
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Meeting devoted to the integration of Slavutych scientific community to the work of World Data System, took place on September 2, 2011 at the World Data Center for Geoinformatics and Sustainable Development (WDC- Ukraine). |
Visit of Representatives of Kyoto City Hall
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The meeting was attended by employees of the Kyiv City State Administration and the Mayor of Slavutych in addition to leaders and professors of KPI. |