After a hard selection process, thirty participants have been selected finally to take part in the Summer School of the project BILAT-UKR*AINA. Selected participants are young (up to 40 years old) Ukrainian research managers and project experts.

The Summer School on ‘European RTDI policies, instruments and participation possibilities’ will be held in Kyiv, between 15 and 18 September 2014. The aim of the summer school is to provide a comprehensive training on project development, management, and exploitation of research results in the frame of Horizon 2020. The event shall provide an opportunity for networking and identifying potential fields of common interests among the participants.

The Summer School programme is structured around keynote presentations by distinguished experts and interactive small seminar group discussions. The thirty participants will be expected to join one of the four seminar group based on their expertise and previous experience: eight people will attend the Biotechnology section, seven will be at the ICT course, nine people will join the Nanomaterials group, and six other will be participating the Transport seminar.

Participants will arrive from various regions of Ukraine, such as Kyiv, Lviv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, and Ternopil.