ANOTHER STEP IN REFORMING THE NETWORK OF SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS OF THE MON: GOVERNMENT APPROVES REORGANISATION OF IONOSPHERE INSTITUTE

On 8 March 2024, at a government meeting, the Cabinet of Ministers adopted a decree “On Approval of the Reorganisation of the Institute of the Ionosphere”. This decision of the Cabinet of Ministers concerns the continuation of the policy of the Ministry of Education and Science to optimise its own network of scientific institutions and higher education institutions, improve the management of scientific institutions, strengthen their human resources, research base, and opportunities for additional attraction of competitive and extra-budgetary funding for scientific activities. At the same time, this will allow the National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute” to strengthen the research component in the educational and scientific process. The order stipulates that the reorganisation will be carried out with full preservation of the existing funding of the Institute from both the Ministry of Education and Science and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The same applies to the existing human resources and material and technical base. NTU “KPI”, for its part, guarantees the Institute the status of a separate research unit within KPI, which is important within the policy of the Ministry of Education and Science to preserve and develop the country’s scientific potential.