The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, together with the Innovation Development Fund, presented the first Catalog of the National Network of Startup Schools, Incubators and Accelerators Based on Higher Education Institutions and Scientific Institutions. The document summarizes the results of a two-year pilot project that brought together 23 innovation platforms in different regions of the country.
The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, together with the Innovation Development Fund, presented the first Catalog of the National Network of Startup Schools, Incubators and Accelerators Based on Higher Education Institutions and Scientific Institutions. The document summarizes the results of a two-year pilot project that brought together 23 innovation platforms in different regions of the country.
The presentation took place during the 2U Tech Forum, organized by UNIT.City and Diia.City Union. The catalog was co-authored by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Startup Fund (UFS), as well as the YEP Accelerator and MASONS teams.
Over the two years of the network’s operation, which launched in 2024, it has managed to support more than 150 startup teams. They have created more than 40 working prototypes of technological products and held more than 60 specialized events. In addition, six university startup schools have attracted state funding to develop their own infrastructure, and three teams will represent Ukraine at the European technology exhibition Viva Technology in Paris.
In total, 57 startups have already been created with the participation of students and scientists, which have attracted over 16 million hryvnias in investment and formed about 40 partnerships.
The organizers call the next step scaling the network and introducing new financial incentives for young entrepreneurs. According to Oksana Berezhnaya, Director General of the Innovation Directorate of the Ministry of Education and Science, work is currently underway to launch innovation vouchers, a popular mechanism for direct financial support of early startup ecosystems.
An experimental project to create a National Network of Startup Schools was launched by the Ministry of Education and Science and the Innovation Development Fund in 2024. The main goal of the initiative is to help Ukrainian universities commercialize scientific developments and create favorable conditions for launching and scaling technology businesses directly within university walls.
You can read the full text of the catalog and a list of all 23 schools at the link .
