The Science Park of Zhytomyr Polytechnic State University is a dynamic innovation ecosystem fostering the development of groundbreaking projects, scientific research commercialization, and entrepreneurial initiatives. As a hub for collaboration between academia, business, and government, we drive regional growth and technological advancements.
Equipped with state-of-the-art laboratories in IT, robotics, prototyping and others we provide resources for cutting-edge research and innovation.
With a strong focus on youth entrepreneurship and technology-driven solutions, we deliver impactful results, from supporting innovative startups to developing proprietary innovations.
In an era defined by data and connectivity, securing Europe’s digital sovereignty is a paramount strategic objective. The core challenge is to build a resilient, competitive, and human-centric digital economy and society, reducing dependencies on non-EU actors in critical technology areas.
This requires mastering key enabling technologies like semiconductors, 5G/6G, cloud, and AI; deploying secure and sustainable digital infrastructures; and ensuring that businesses and citizens possess the advanced skills needed to navigate the digital transformation.
The EU’s vision is articulated in the Digital Decade Policy Programme, which sets a clear roadmap with concrete 2030 targets across four cardinal points: skills, infrastructure, business digitalisation, and public services.
The ultimate goal is to shape a “Europe fit for the digital age” that is not only technologically sovereign but also grounded in fundamental EU values of privacy, fairness, and security.
Europe possesses world-class scientific research but has historically faced a systemic challenge in translating these foundational breakthroughs into market-leading global companies, a gap often termed the “European innovation paradox.” This is particularly acute in deep tech—innovations rooted in tangible scientific and engineering progress—which are capital-intensive, high-risk, and require long-term patient capital.
In response, the EU has launched the New European Innovation Agenda, an explicit strategy to position the continent at the forefront of the “new wave of deep-tech innovation.” This agenda is intrinsically linked to achieving strategic autonomy and competitiveness in critical fields such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, biotechnology, and clean technologies.
The overarching vision is to cultivate a pan-European ecosystem where the continent’s best talent works with the best companies to create and scale up disruptive solutions, thereby addressing pressing societal challenges and securing Europe’s technological sovereignty.
The digital age demands a radical evolution in how education and training are delivered and accessed. The COVID-19 pandemic served as an accelerant, exposing significant disparities in the digital readiness of Europe’s educational institutions and highlighting the urgent need for a more resilient, inclusive, and effective digital learning ecosystem.
The core challenge is twofold: equipping all citizens, from a young age and throughout their lives, with the digital skills necessary to thrive in a transformed society and economy, and empowering educators with the advanced pedagogical competencies and tools to deliver high-quality digital education.
The EU’s Digital Education Action Plan (2021-2027) sets out a comprehensive vision to address this, focusing on fostering a high-performing digital education ecosystem and enhancing digital skills for the digital transformation.
The goal is to build a European Education Area where learning is personalised, accessible, and future-proof, preparing a skilled workforce for the twin transitions and fostering digital literacy as a cornerstone of active citizenship.
Europe’s traditional linear economic model of “take-make-waste” is fundamentally unsustainable, leading to resource depletion, environmental degradation, and critical dependencies on imported raw materials. The strategic imperative is to transition to a circular economy, where the value of products, materials, and resources is maintained in the economy for as long as possible and the generation of waste is minimised.
The EU’s Circular Economy Action Plan (CEAP), a central pillar of the European Green Deal, provides the roadmap for this systemic shift.81 The plan’s vision is to make sustainable products the norm by focusing on their entire lifecycle, starting with design for durability, reusability, and reparability.
The goal is to create a well-functioning internal market for high-quality secondary raw materials, reduce Europe’s consumption footprint, and double its circular material use rate by 2030, thereby boosting competitiveness, resilience, and environmental protection simultaneously
The EU’s push for a net-zero, competitive, and independent energy sector has evolved from policy-setting into a full-scale industrial mobilization, driven by the dual goals of energy security and climate action. The central strategy employs a powerful two-pronged approach, simultaneously creating large-scale demand while building the domestic industrial supply to meet it.
This response is anchored by REPowerEU, which accelerates green energy demand, and the Green Deal Industrial Plan (GDIP), which scales up Europe’s own clean-tech manufacturing.
This vision is executed through a coherent, end-to-end funding pipeline—from foundational R&D (Horizon Europe) to first-of-a-kind commercial deployment (The Innovation Fund)—and a coordinated industrial strategy managed by EIT InnoEnergy to build resilient domestic value chains and secure global leadership.
Europe holds a strong position in industrial robotics and research, but faces intense global competition in the race to develop and deploy the next generation of intelligent, connected, and autonomous systems. The strategic challenge is to accelerate the adoption of AI-powered robotics and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, particularly among Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), to enhance industrial competitiveness and secure European technological sovereignty.
The EU’s Apply AI Strategy explicitly identifies robotics as a flagship sector for accelerated AI adoption, promoting an “AI first” policy to embed intelligence across the economy.
The vision is to foster a world-leading European ecosystem where the convergence of AI, Data, and Robotics creates transformative solutions for manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, agri-food, and the circular economy, thereby driving productivity, resilience, and sustainability.
Urban areas are the epicentres of Europe’s economy and society, but they also account for the majority of greenhouse gas emissions and face persistent challenges of congestion, air, and noise pollution.
The strategic challenge is to fundamentally transform urban mobility, moving away from a reliance on privately owned, conventionally fuelled vehicles towards a sustainable, smart, and inclusive system. The EU’s Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy sets a clear and ambitious vision for this transition, with concrete targets such as achieving 100 climate-neutral cities by 2030, deploying automated mobility at a large scale, and doubling high-speed rail traffic.
The goal is not merely to replace technologies but to re-imagine urban spaces, creating a seamless, multimodal mobility system that integrates clean public transport, active mobility like cycling and walking, and innovative shared services.
This transformation must be both sustainable, through zero-emission solutions, and smart, leveraging data, connectivity, and automation to create more efficient, accessible, and liveable cities for all citizens.
The transformation of the EU’s agricultural sector, defined by the Farm to Fork (F2F) strategy, is a fundamental task that is significantly more complex and socially contested than the energy transition, as it directly impacts the livelihoods of millions of farmers. The key challenge lies not in technological invention, but in overcoming the massive adoption barrier, which requires translating complex innovations to an extremely fragmented base of individual farms.
The EU’s response is to combine the reformed Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which uses its multi-billion-euro payments to create market incentives for environmental outcomes, with the development of critical digital infrastructure.
This vision involves creating the Common European Agricultural Data Space (CEADS) to unlock currently siloed data and enable the data-driven innovations, such as precision farming, on which the entire transition depends.
The EU’s pivot towards a credible defense industrial base is the most urgent of the three transformations, defined by a “wartime” urgency and a shift from soft power to a concrete industrial player. The key challenge is the critical supply chain vulnerability exposed by the war, with 78% of defense procurement sourced from outside the EU.
The response is the European Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS), which sets a clear “Buy European” goal to achieve industrial readiness. This strategy is executed through the European Defence Fund (EDF), which financially compels cooperation among a fragmented industry.
Most critically, the EU is strategically dismantling the wall between civil and defense innovation, creating a “two-way bridge” between civilian funds (like the EIC) and defense funds (EDF) to accelerate the development of dual-use technologies.The EU’s response is to combine the reformed Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which uses its multi-billion-euro payments to create market incentives for environmental outcomes, with the development of critical digital infrastructure.
This vision involves creating the Common European Agricultural Data Space (CEADS) to unlock currently siloed data and enable the data-driven innovations, such as precision farming, on which the entire transition depends.
UPDATES & HIGHLIGHTS
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The team from Science Park “Zhytomyr Polytechnic” (Veronika Leleta and Yuliia Dziubenko) participated in RECTAPT — a large-scale conference organized by AIN, Techosystem, Molfar, DEV
How is Ukrainian EdTech Preparing for Scaling?The team from the Science Park of Zhytomyr Polytechnic participated in the first National Conference “Digital Innovation in Education
The Science Park of Zhytomyr Polytechnic, with the support of the Ukrainian National Office of Intellectual Property and Innovations, has received a certificate of copyright
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In the realm of research project management, few concepts are as misunderstood yet critically important as “exploitation.” While researchers naturally focus on generating novel findings and advancing scientific knowledge, funding agencies increasingly demand clear pathways to practical application and societal value.
In the competitive landscape of research funding and project management, the terms “dissemination” and “communication” are often used interchangeably. However, treating them as synonymous represents a fundamental misunderstanding that can significantly undermine a project’s impact and success.
Transforming stakeholder involvement from compliance exercise to competitive advantage. Open any research proposal and you’ll find a stakeholder section. Most feature an impressive list: industry partners, policy makers, patient groups, NGOs, SMEs, and more. Yet evaluators consistently cite weak stakeholder engagement as a major proposal weakness. The problem? Listing stakeholders is not a strategy.
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