OREANDA-NEWS. On December 12, 2008 The head of the State Agency of Ukraine for Investments and Innovations Viktor Ivchenko held a working meeting with experts of German consultative group Larce Hendrich and Ferdinand Paul.

He proposed concrete steps of maintaining cooperation. One of the directions can become cooperation of German partners with scientific park the Kyiv Polytechnics which already bears solutions in energy saving area. Mutually beneficial can also become interaction with the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Perspective directions of cooperation, as Viktor Ivchenko put it, appear creating joint enterprises in producing goods for European and Ukrainian market as well as holding trainings, seminars for employees of regional centres of innovation development.

“We welcome interest of German partners to Ukraine and consider our cooperation can be fruitful and mutually beneficial,” Viktor Ivchenko stressed. According to him, though Ukraine is concerned in transfer of technologies, nowadays the most actual for the state is advancement of our own solutions in the sphere of energy saving and introducing them in production. 

According to Larce Hendrich, the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technologies of Germany is interested in cooperation with Ukraine in the area of energy saving technologies. He stressed that according to the research held by the Ministry, Ukraine possesses a rather perspective market of advanced energy saving technologies.

The German experts took into consideration the proposed cooperation scheme and expressed hopes that after it has been considered in the Ministry further concrete steps are possible.

The parties marked positive result of the meeting and aired belief for fruitful cooperation in the future.

The event was also attended by First Deputy Head of the State Agency of Ukraine for Investments and Innovations Anatoliy Zayets, leaders and members of structure subdivisions of the State Agency for Investments and Innovations and a representative of Kyiv regional centre of innovation development.