Besides signing the partnership with STCU, Prof. Bambang Riyanto also visited Kiev Polytechnique Institute (KPI). Kiev itself is the capital of Ukraine. This visit meant to explore possible future partnership between ITB and KPI. “Kiev (KPI) is one of the best Engineering Higher Educations in the field of sciences and technology in Ukraine, there have been initial talk about education, research, and innovation,” said Prof. Bambang when asked at Rector Building on Monday (26/02/2018).

Some potential fields to follow up in the MoU are aviation engineering, material science, nuclear, physics, chemistry, sensor technology, and bio technology. In the next three months, ITB planned to invite researchers from Ukraine to visit Indonesia.

“We will follow-up immediately on the next two or three months, or earlier. In the earliest follow-up, we will invite scientists from STCU and Kiev to ITB to discuss more details about research and innovation that we will cooperate in. That is the plan,” said Bambang Riyanto who is also an ITB expert in robotics.

STCU, he explained, is a research center in Ukraine, where scientists who formerly worked in the field of defense and security change their research focus to non-defense and non-security. “Ukraine has high scientific culture and we can learn from them,” said Bambang.

Prof. Bambang Riyanto departed to Ukraine with several delegates sent by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Republic of Indonesia. Yuddy Chrisnandi said that this visit focus on the improvement of partnership and trade volume between the two countries. This bilateral partnership between Republic of Indonesia and Ukraine is the first partnership in science and technology.

Documentation: Secretary of WRRIM ITB