RI-LINKS2UA - Strengthening Research and Innovation Links towards Ukraine

The overall aim of the project entitled ‘Strengthening Research and Innovation Links towards Ukraine (abbr. RI-LINKS2UA)' is to further support and enhance the integration of Ukraine to the European Research Area. The following three core objectives will be archived by a consortium of 12 renewed organisations with professional STI policy and policy analysis background from EU MS /AC (including Ukraine of course):

• to further support and stimulate the policy dialogue on R&I between EU and Ukraine and therefore to enable the better integration of Ukraine into ERA, by identifying remaining obstacles, drivers and opportunities through analytical evidence and R&I policy advice;
• to contribute to the improvement of supportive framework conditions in the field of R&I through a targeted portfolio of activities in order to systematically enhance and stimulate the EU-Ukraine STI cooperation;
• to further encourage and facilitate cooperation between research actors from the EU and Ukraine through a set of supportive R&I measures and by promoting EU-Ukrainian participation in joint projects in Horizon 2020 and other EU funded programmes.

In particular RI-LINKS2UA will:

• Contribute to the improvement of the framework conditions for EU-Ukraine STI cooperation
• Provide an operational tailor-made support to policy dialogue
• Strengthen innovation capacity and economic competitiveness
• Stimulate and promote the R&I cooperation between EU and Ukraine
• Contribute to the governance of Ukrainian participation in the Horizon 2020 and assure practical follow up and long-term impacts by applying diligent dissemination and valorisation precautions.