Vladislav
Nesterov -
President
UÒÀ,
Academician,
doctor of
engineering
science,
professor
Activities
of the Ukrainian
Technological
Academy
and Major Trends
of Development
until 2010
In the nineties
Ukrainian
scientists and
industrialists
found out that
it was almost
impossible to
survive and
develop
individually and
separately. That
is why in March
1992
they founded a
union and
addressed the
Government of
Ukraine to
register the
Ukrainian
Technological
Academy (UTA) –
an independent,
self-governed
scientific union
of research
workers,
engineers,
economists from
different
branches of
science,
technology,
industry and
education.
According to its
Charter its
major aim is to
assist in
developing and
introducing new
high-end
technology,
improving
industrial,
medical,
educational, and
cultural
efficiency,
protecting
common interests
of Academy
members.
To describe
activities of
the UTA let us
turn to
statistical data
made public in n
2005 when the
Academy held a
meeting to hear
reports and
elect new
officials.
In 2005 the
Academy
consisted of 902
members, there
were 671
academician, 231
corresponding
member. The
Academy included
only 116
collective
members,
previously there
had been 98 of
them. By 2008
the Academy will
unite 770
academicians,
260
corresponding
members, 121
collective
members. This
confirms that
considerable
efforts were
applied to
develop the UTA
and,
principally, to
realize
the first
strategic
direction
of its activity
adopted earlier
by general
meetings.
It was no
more necessary
to admit new
members in mass
numbers as had
been done during
its
establishment..
The Presidium
has been
scrutinizing
each candidate
scrupulously,
selecting those
who have been
seriously
influencing
science,
education and
industry in
Ukraine.
Among them
there are 384
PhDs, 390
candidates of
science, a
considerable
number of
executives of
important
enterprises,
firms and
corporations.
There is a
considerable
number of
prominent
scientists and
researchers
among the
members of the
Academy:
Oliynichuk S.
(Ukrainian
Alcohol and
Biotechnology
Research
Institute,
Director),
Lozovik N.
(Ukrainian Paper
Research
Institute,
Director),
Podnebesniy A.
(Elastic
Research
Institute,
Director),
Pechnyo V.
(Institute of
Organic
Chemistry),
Stalinskiy D. (Energostal
State Scientific
and Technical
Center),
Vitvitskiy V.
(Ukrainian
Research
Institute of
Productiveness
of
Agro-Industrial
Complex of the
Ministry of the
Agrarian Policy
of Ukraine,
Director),
Kercha Yu.
(Institute of
Chemistry of
High-Molecular
Compounds),
Shulga M.
(Institute of
Mechanics),
Vinogradov V. (Magarach
National
Institue of
Viticulture and
Wine, Director)
and many others
– well over 80
research
institutes that
accommodate a
sizable share of
scientists that
work for the
progress in the
country.
The Academy
also includes
those who hold
important
offices in the
Ukrainian
ministries and
departments and
predetermine an
overall
scientific
policy.
Higher
educational
institutions are
also widely
represented in
the Academy by
their
chancellors and
presidents. To
name just a
few: Tolok V. (Zaporozhskiy
State
University,
Chancellor),
Sivokobylenko
V., Taranets V.,
Troyanskiy A. (Donetskiy
Technical State
University),
Tyupalo N.,
Stentsel O. (Severodonetskiy
Technological
Institute,
Chancellor,
Vice-Chancellor),
prof. Yatsyshyn
O. (Lvovskiy
Polytechnic
Institute), prof.
Primakov S. (Kievskiy
Polytechnic
University),
prof. Filipskiy
Yu. (Odesskiy
Polytechnic
Institue), prof.
Pugachevskiy G.
(Kievskiy Trade
and Economic
University),
Skiba N. (Podolye
Technological
University,
Chancellor) and
many others who
actively
participate in
the UTA
programs. In
total the
Academy has 394
members
representing 109
colleges and
universities, in
practice these
scientists do
influence the
progress of
education and
culture in
Ukraine.
The Presidium
paid special
attention to
recruiting
members from the
industrial
sector of
economy. Thus,
one can name
academicians
Shevchenko O. (Aviant
Enterprise,
CEO),
Matyushenko V. (Donetskmetallurgstroy
Trust, CEO),
Naumov A. (Avtoenergo
Trust, CEO),
Byelogubova E.,
Chernyshenko V.,
Sulima L., Hero
of Ukraine
Prilipko F.
(various
greenhouse
complexes and
enterprises,
CEOs), Shneider
V. (Chimneftemashproect,
President),
Sheludko G. (Raiffaizen
Bank Aval,
Vice-President),
Sukov G. (Novokramatorskiy
Machine Building
Plant, CEO),
Franchuk I.
(Fuel and Energy
Balance Center,
President),
Shukailo B. (Mior,
CEO), Kirik G.
and Zharkov P. (UkrRosMetall,
President and
Vice-President)
and a number of
others. In all
324 members of
the Academy
represent
Ukrainian
industry.
More and more
members of the
UTA come from
the governing
bodies and
Ukrainian banks.
To a large
extent they
predetermine the
development of
whole regions,
sectors of
economy, and
branches of
industry.
The Academy
has been
increasing the
number of its
foreign members.
They include:
Lepper A. (ED,
member of EU
Parliament,
Polish Seim,
Vice-Speaker)
Prochorov V.
(ED, prof.,
Honored
Scientist,
university
dean), Issa
Sukheil (ED,
Head of
Association of
Ukrainian-Syrian
Friendship,
Chief Editor of
“The World of
Computer
Technologies”
magazine, Thomas
Klubler
(prominent
German
politician and
industrialist),
Ryabinskiy A.
(American
software
developer),
Claus Glazer (Dphil,
Lego,
Director-General),
Novitskiy A. (Chenstochov
Metallurgic
Plant, member of
the board of
directors),
Drazhko
Achimovich (ED,
ASKO Austrian
Insurance
Company,
President), Men
A. (DPhil,
Israeli Academy
of Science,
President),
Aliev I. (Benagadineft
Azerbaijanian
Oil Producing
company,
President) and
many others, in
total over 50
persons. This
allows the UTA
to widely
promote
Ukrainian
achievement
abroad.
The above
named facts and
figures confirm
that the Academy
possesses an
immense
scientific and
industrial
potential and
considerably
influences
creation and
introduction of
high-end
technology, and
is capable to
protect common
interests of its
members
The
second strategic
direction
defined by
general meetings
and the Charter
of the UTA is a
creation of
industrial and
interindustrial
scientific
programs. This
required an
intensive
research and
analysis of a
socio-economic
conditions
within various
branches of
industry.
Optimal ways and
perspectives of
development were
outlined,
detailed
proposals to
introduce
scientific and
production
innovations were
collected that
name specific
enterprises,
describe work
required to be
completed and
name financial
resources
required to
complete the
job, as well as
proclaim
expected
results..
Thus, this
course has been
realized in
three Ukrainian
national
programs. One
the most
important
national
programs is
directed at
creation and
introduction of
energy saving
technologies as
well as
equipment to
produce
high-octane
gasoline
additives –
combustible
spirits
sublimated of
local materials
that will
replace about
7-8% of gasoline
(Olienchuk S.,
Michnenko E.). A
program of socio
and economic
development of
the Donetsk
oblast was
initiated by
academicians
Pasternak,
Antsyferov,
Kravtsov,
Sporykhin that
helped solve
systemic
industrial
within the
Donets Basin
region.
The
Government was
presented a
program of
introducing an
agricultural
drip irrigation
technology and
fertigation
equipment that
envisages a
creation of a
system of
repayable
government
investments
provided to
farmers that
will help
increase
agricultural
productivity (Shcherbena
O., Pashkovskiy
A., Sulima L.,
Byelogolubova
E., Chernyshenko
V.).
Still another
perspective
program – on
utilizing
polymer waste –
was worked out
and realized
within the
bounds of the
Package and
Packing program
(Petukhov,
Kucherenko).
Several programs
on utilizing
waste in Kiev
oblast until
2015 were
elaborated and
have been
realized in Kiev
oblast. Basic
data has been
collected to
launch a
large-scale
program to
produce and
exploit helium
simultaneously
with oil found
in Ukraine..
A Ukrainian
agricultural
subsidiary stock
exchange was
found, Khleb
Ukrainy
department (Kompanets
N., President)
and Ukrainian
Agricultural
Confederation (Klimenko
V., Kozachenko
L.) were
successfully
reorganized.
Our
developments
have become
highly efficient
as a result of
joint efforts of
scientists and
industrialists
united within
the UTA that
allows to solve
large-scale
complex
problems.
The third
strategic
direction
– is a creation
of regional and
specialized
branches.
By 2000 the
Academy had
branches in
Donets Basin,
Vinnitsa,
Mariupol,
Cherkassy,
Khmelnitsk,
Kharkov, Sumy,
Crimea,
Dnepropetrovsk;
today new
branches prepare
to open in
Odessa,
Transcarpathia,
Volyn.
Work carried
out in branches
brings more
specific and
concrete
proposals to
solve
scientific,
technological
and production
issues with an
account of needs
and facilities
available on a
regional level
The agenda of
the conference
stipulates
representatives
of Donets basin,
Vinnitsa and
Kharkov and
other regional
branches to
speak in more
detail on
specific
character of
their
activities. The
General Meeting
briefed the
Presidium to
work out the UTA
database – the
fourth strategic
direction.
Its structure
has been already
developed and a
database
management
system detailed.
We received a
number of offers
to combine
databases with
the European
International
Technological
Institute, that
makes it
possible to
connect to the
HUNTECH European
database..
The UTA has
an Internet
address (www.uta.ukrsmb.info),
the website
contains three
chapters of the
UTA reference
book.
All these
directions of
development have
been closely
followed by the
UTA Presidium,
but nevertheless
specialized
branches are
most crucial for
the Academy and
most of the UTA
achievements
have been
associated with
their intensive
functioning.
The following
volume of work
has been
completed within
a reporting
period.
The number of
specialized
branches within
the UTA
structure has
increased from
17 to 28. Such
dynamics has
been
predetermined by
economic and
industrial
development of
Ukraine. Several
groups of
specialists
offered to
organize new
branches: modern
transport,
agricultural,
banking
technologies,
culture and art.
A newly formed
branch for
History and
Phylosophy
includes Filaret
(Patriarch of
Kiev and
Russia),
Archbishop
Dmitriy (Rector
of the
Ecclesiastical
Seminary) Zinich
P. (Vladimir
Cathedral),
Voznyuk (Vydubitskiy
Monastery,
Archimandrite),
Pilipets Yu.
(Archimandrite)
and others..
At present
there is no
conflict between
science and
religion, both
contribute to
increasing
spirituality of
the nation.
Besides
scientific and
technological
aspects the UTA
pays special
attention to
educational
activity –
the sixth
direction
of activity; it
organizes
scientific
conferences and
seminars on
pressing
problems that
promote summing
up of results
and producing
valid scientific
and
technological
recommendations.
The UTA has
carried out a
number of large
subject
international
conferences, for
example, Ecology
of Donetsk
Industrial
Region with over
60 topical
reports
presented.
In
cooperation with
Odesskaya oblast
state
administration
the UTA
organized and
held a
theoretical and
practical Premix
conference on
the issue of
application of
bioactive
substances for
production of
mixed fodder.
Academicians
Egorov B.
ànd
Shapovalenko O.
presented their
reports on
application of
premixes to
increase
productivity of
mixed fodder for
general
discussion..
Under the
UTA’s
sponsorship
conferences were
held in Sumy
(Compressor and
Power Equipment
– Kirik G.,
Zharkov P.), the
Crimea
(Environmental
Safety of
Production –
Zubachenko) that
discussed and
elaborated
decisions on a
number of
pressing
problems. The
World Union of
Production
Engineers and
the UTA held a
joint conference
in 2006 and
published 2
volumes of
reports
(Academician
Pugachevskiy
G.).
Annually the
UTA sponsors
between 12 and
15 similar large
international
and Ukrainian
conferences, but
permanent
international
scientific
conferences on
information and
energy saving
technologies and
production
certification
have turned to
become gems of
this educational
program.
The success
of these
conferences was
due to
Academician
Golovko D.,
professor of the
National
University of
Technology and
Designing;
Scientific
Secretary
Academician
Khimicheva F.,
Vice-President
Skripnik Yu.
To be granted
an international
status the UTA
had submitted to
UNESCO in 1998
all required
papers
describing its
activity.
Following this
procedure the
UNO, UNESCO and
NATO began to
test the UTA
activities and
regularly sent
prospects and
invitations to
participate in
international
conferences,
present and
publish reports.
For example, in
2006 the UTA
received an
invitation to
participate in
the Fifth
Conference of
European
Polytechnic
Institutes in
Budapest..
Recently the
NATO Committee
on Science
offered the
Academy to
participate in a
conference on
the subject of
Instruments and
Methods of
Preventing
Environment
Pollution.
President
Nesterov V.
Spoke in Prague
at the NATO
Symposium on
Environment
Technologies; a
number of the
UTA academicians
worked on an
encyclopedic
memo describing
scientific and
educational
activities of
the UTA that
made it easier
to establish
contacts with
numerous
international
scientific
organizations.
Having
successfully
undergone such a
test the UTA
received from
UNESCO an
invitation to
participate in
the World
Congress that
summarized
science
achievements for
the last two
thousand years
and perspectives
of its further
development in
the third
millennium.
Over 2000
scientists
gathered at the
UNESCO forum.
Ukraine received
10 invitations
and one of them
was granted to
the Ukrainian
Technological
Academy.
The Academy
made a report at
the Congress on
the Development
and Activity of
a Non-Government
Scientific
Organization
that was
approved and
well received by
the world
scientific
community.
UNESCO
recognized the
UTA and included
it in the
official
Academies
Science list
published in
«Word
conference on
science. Science
for the
twenty-first
century. A new
commitment»
UNESCO, 2000,
p.528.
Such an attitude
to the UTA
activity
resulted in a
number of
invitations sent
to participate
in the work of
subsequent
international
congresses. Thus
the Academy was
invited to
attend a
congress in the
United Arab
Emirates
(Tendencies,
Technologic
Education and
National
Development); a
symposium held
in Austin
University
(Science,
Technology and
Innovation
Policy).
As an
acknowledgment
of the UTA work
in 2006-2007 the
UNESCO invited
the Academy to
participate in
the competition
Woman – the
Scientist with
five 100000$
prizes. We
nominated prof.
Kasyanchuk V.
Publishing
magazines and
newspapers,
participating in
TV and radio
programs are
important
components of an
educational work
carried out by
the UTA.
For example, the
UTA is a
cofounder of an
authoritative
scientific
magazine
Instrumental and
Computer
Equipment in
Technology
Processes. The
Highest
Attestation
Committee of
Ukraine accepted
the magazine as
the basic one
for publishing
papers of
applicants for
scientific
degrees that
confirms its
high scientific
rating. The
editorial staff
of the magazine
includes 9 UTA’s
academicians,
its chief editor
is Academician
Trotsyshyn I.
The magazine
Physics of the
Living is widely
known in
scientific
circles, it is
published by
Academician
Sitko S. who
heads the
research
institute of
Quantum
medicine.
The UTA
collaborates in
publishing a
number of new
magazines:
Compressor and
Power Machine
Building (Kirik
G., Zharkov P.,
Lyshchak M.);
Environmental
Industry (Stalinskiy
D.); Grain
Products and
Mixed Fodder (Egorov
B.); World of
Computer
Technologies (Issa
Sukheil) and so
on.
It should be
also noted that
UTA members,
academicians
personally
compile annually
over 500 various
articles for
Ukrainian and
international
magazines,
publish
approximately 50
monographs,
books, and
brochures.
The UTA
academicians
submit
personally
proposals and
receive over 300
author's
certificates and
patents for
technology,
equipment, and
materials.
The UTA
academicians
contribute to
popularization
of scientific
knowledge and
industrial
achievements of
Ukraine,
improving its
well-being, and
increasing its
international
prestige.
The UTA Charter
determines major
directions of
its activity for
the next period
till 2010 as a
work to improve
the well-being
(material and
spiritual) of
the Ukrainian
people. This
coincides with
the conclusions
made by the UNO
agency in
Ukraine
«General
Assessment of
Ukraine»
2004, p.136. The
assessment was
performed by the
UNO and
formulated in
the matrix of
problems in
which poverty
(due to
non-efficient
use of
resources) was
determined as
the primary
problem and
corruption and
high taxes – as
the second one,
and
underdeveloped
social structure
as the third. In
accordance with
this aim and
proposals of the
UTA members to
efficiently
exploit natural
resources it is
necessary to
dynamically
expand
activities of
regional
branches, to
make science and
industry
cooperate
closely, to
provide
financial
support to the
development and
introduction of
perspective
technologies,
foreign
including. It is
vitally
important to
develop
spirituality,
popularize
knowledge, to
hold
conferences,
seminars, to
guarantee
optimal
functioning of a
scientific
database.
The report was
compiled on the
basis of written
reports of heads
of branches,
information on
decisions of the
Presidium.
Thus, it may be
stated that The
UTA has been
dynamically
developing in
all strategic
directions
stipulated by
the Charter.
This voluntary
union of
scientists
allows to
recognize,
formulate and
actively solve
problems
associated with
the development
of science and
industry. In the
future it will
be necessary to
vigorously
continue efforts
to reach goals
stipulated in
the Charter that
should permit
to improve
material and
spiritual
well-being of
the Ukrainian
people. |
