A world concept of sustainable growth is based on necessity of balance establishment between present-day need satisfaction of humanity and protection of coming generations interests, including their need for safe and healthy environment.
Members of Swedish Nobel family realized a world-spanning drain of vital natural and non-renewable resources and wanted to make a contribution into improvement of life quality on the Earth. So, they started a Nobel fund for sustainable development. The founders think economic and social health of civilization depends on availability of energy and sustainable strategy for farming and forestry, industrial production and water purification. The Nobel fund for sustainable development has an aim to help exactly in this direction.
According to agreement between Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and the Nobel fund for sustainable development, our university is the main national institution of Ukraine for the fund. On its base was organized a work of secretariat of National nominating committee of Ukraine.
Outstanding Ukrainian scholars are the members of the National nominating committee of Ukraine. These people have an unquestioned authority and credibility in academic environment, they are interested in the same spheres the fund also is. There’s a president of NAS of Ukraine, academic B.E. Paton (the head of the committee), the first vice-president of NAS of Ukraine, academician A.H. Naumovets, rector of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, academician M.Z. Zgurovsky, academicians O.O. Kryshtal, V.O. Koshechko, corresponding member of NAS of Ukraine H.M. Zinovyev, deputy head of Committee of the State prizes of Ukraine in science and technology V.S. Stohniy, holders of chairs of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute academicians A.A. Halatov and I.V. Kryvtsun, corresponding member S.I. Sydorenko, professor V.B. Maksymenko.
A meeting of National nominating committee of Ukraine of prize Nobel fund for sustainable development took place under auspices of academic B.E. Paton on 20 February 2019.
The committee examined the results of works inspection that were presented by organizations and scientists of Ukraine for participation in national stage of the first contest 2018-2019 for the award of Nobel fund for sustainable development, especially from Institute of cybernetics of NASU, from Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics and others.
After examination and discussing the results of the expert review the Committee decided to nominate a project of the World Data Center «Geomatics and sustainable development» of International academic board: «Online platform of system analysis development and scenario planning of sustainable development of countries and regions of the world in the context of quality and safety of people’s lives» as one that can participate in the next stage of the contest.
The information about meeting of National nominating committee of Ukraine will be accessible also on its site at https://nobelsd.kpi.ua.