Success Stories

The STCU and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU) commenced a Targeted Initiative, the first time that a STCU Recipient Party has contributed its own funds, in matching amounts, to STCU projects. Up to US$1 million in projects, financed equally by NASU and the STCU focused former weapons scientists onto several research areas of Ukrainian national priority.

Of the seven winning proposals (selected by consensus of Canada, the EU, the U.S. and NASU), the largest number (3) and largest funding total (over US$340,000) were environmental technology projects. These projects were: a project for monitoring and modeling atmospheric ozone concentrations over Ukraine using standard European Environmental Agency methods (STCU #3894); a project to develop rapid and inexpensive methods of perchlorate detection for field-monitoring ground and surface waters (STCU #3871); and a project to develop a pyrometallurgical technology for recycling oxidized wastes containing nickel and chromium (STCU #3897).