International Activities
International Relations
The Institute of Hydrobiology actively maintains and develops international relations as part of its scientific activities, using various forms of cooperation. These include the exchange of scientific information, participation in international conferences and symposia, research placements, as well as scientific and technical cooperation with foreign institutions, and engagement in solving scientific and practical problems through seminars and training.
Within the framework of international cooperation (2021–2024), scientific collaboration was carried out under bilateral agreements with the following institutions:
An important component of cooperation is research placements for scientists and postgraduate students of the Institute in other countries. Scientists of the Institute who were forced to leave Ukraine due to Russian aggression were able to obtain grants or placements at research institutions in European Union countries. Fruitful ties with academic institutions in Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Germany, Spain, Austria and others are being maintained and developed.
A very important form of international scientific cooperation is the performance by the Institute and its leading experts of representative functions and activities in international organisations dealing with environmental protection, coordination and consolidation of efforts to preserve biodiversity, and improvement of the ecological condition of degraded aquatic systems.
Institute experts serve as experts in international organisations such as ICPDR and IAD. As individual members, Institute staff belong to a number of international unions and associations:
"Strengthening of the Environmental Radiation Control and Legislative Basis for the Environmental Remediation of Radioactively Contaminated Sites in Ukraine" (Gudkov D.I.). Radioecological studies were conducted in various parts of the Chornobyl NPP cooling pond.
The Institute co-organised the conference "Tackling Present & Future Environmental Challenges of a European Riverscape" (6–9 February 2023, Krems, Austria). The conference had originally been planned to be held at the Institute of Hydrobiology in Kyiv in 2022, but became impossible due to Russian aggression. The event was attended by 101 registered participants from 12 Danube basin countries.