THE MEETING OF THE AGROTECHNICA CLUSTER BOARD WILL TAKE PLACE ON JULY, 28

On July 28, 2017 the meeting of the Expert-Coordination Board of Education Innovation Cluster AGROTECHNICA will take place within the official program of the Field Day LOZOVA MACHINERY.

During the meeting the representatives of the cluster members – Kharkiv Regional State Administration, engineering and agro-industrial enterprises of the country, engineering centers, leading agrarian universities of Ukraine will discuss current issues, plan work for the future according to the program of cluster actions aimed at increasing the economic efficiency of Ukrainian agriculture. 

On the agenda:

- approval of the report on the cluster activity for 2016 – 2017;  - discussion of preparation and submission for consideration of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine the Scientific and Technical Program of Precise Farming Development  in Ukraine and creation of "smart agricultural machinery";

 - application for joining the European Cluster Association; - discussion of participation in the largest international exhibition of agricultural machinery in Hanover – AGRITECHNICA.

Within the meeting of the board, the memorandum on joining two more participants, expressing the intention to join the AGROTECHNICA cluster will be signed. They are the National Research Center Institute of Mechanization and Electrification of Agriculture of the Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences (NSC IMESKH UAAS) and Kharkiv National Agrarian University named after V.V.Dokuchajev. 

The Education Innovation Cluster AGROTECHNICA is one of the successful examples of public-private partnership, and its participants are the organizers of the Field Day LOZOVA MACHINERY.

Implementation of innovative agricultural technologies for saving soil resources and increasing agricultural productivity of the country is carried out in close cooperation between production and science.

It is to be recalled that cluster AGROTECHNICA was founded on July, 24 2015.

The initiators and founders of the cluster became Kharkov Regional State Administration, UPEC Industrial Group with its members –Lozova Forging-Mechanical Plant and Ukrainian Transmission and Chassis Design Bureau, Kharkiv Petro Vasylenko National Technical University of Agriculture, Kharkiv regional organization of employers in AIC.

Later five leading agrarian universities, UkrNIIPIT named after L.Pogoreliy and PJSC Kharkov Bearing Plant, joined the cluster.