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Three ways to connect

Each program starts from a specific Ukrainian need and looks for the American help that fits it.

Technology transfer

Many American companies make civilian technology that already works in the field. Many Ukrainian cities and utilities need exactly that kind of equipment. We find the match, check both sides, and help assemble the partners and funding for a first pilot. If the pilot works, other cities can follow.

Power from water pipes

Small turbines sit inside existing water mains and make electricity from water that is already flowing. They are underground, spread out, and hard to target. The systems already run in American cities. A first Ukrainian site has been assessed and sized at 56 kilowatts.

Robots that inspect pipes

A compact robot enters a live water main through a fire hydrant and records the condition of the pipe from the inside. Utilities can find weak spots before a break forces an emergency shutdown. We are discussing a first test with a Ukrainian city.

We are looking for

  • American companies with civilian technology in commercial use.
  • Ukrainian utilities and cities with a documented need and a site ready for a pilot.
  • Funders who back first deployments of proven technology.

Expert advisory panels

Some problems cannot wait for new equipment. A small panel of senior American specialists answers questions from Ukrainian engineers by email and in online sessions with interpreters. Nobody travels. The panels give advice only, and Ukrainian institutions keep every decision.

Our first panel: water

Five senior American water engineers and researchers advise Ukrainian water utilities, with approval from Ukraine's national water authority. Their careers span drinking water quality, wastewater treatment and pipe rehabilitation, at universities, utilities and one of the largest engineering firms in the United States. When a question falls outside their fields, they bring in a colleague who knows the answer.

Questions so far: treatment when chemical supplies run short, removing phosphorus from wastewater, and repairing large water mains under dense city blocks.

What Ukrainian teams received: reference designs from American plants, guides to containerized treatment units, a library on nutrient removal, and US federal reports on aging pipe networks.

We are looking for

  • Senior specialists, working or retired, with deep hands-on experience.
  • Ukrainian institutions with a named contact person and specific questions.

University partnerships

Ukraine's recovery will run on its own engineers, scientists and teachers. We connect Ukrainian and American universities so that education stays rooted in Ukraine while drawing on American strengths. We run two tracks.

Paired Master's Program

Ukrainian master's students spend one semester at an American partner university. Their American courses count toward the Ukrainian degree. They return home to write the thesis and graduate.

Ukraine Teaching Fellowship

American professors teach for a semester at a Ukrainian university. Fellows are chosen in an open competition, receive an award, and commit to leaving something lasting: a new course, a new skill, or a trained local colleague.

How the Paired Master's works

  1. A student enrolls in a master's program at a Ukrainian university.
  2. The student spends one semester taking courses at the American partner.
  3. The home university recognizes those credits.
  4. The student returns to finish the thesis and earn the Ukrainian degree.

The student never leaves the home university's rolls, and the American semester earns credit only, not a second degree. Students travel on a J-1 exchange visa, which requires them to return home.

First pairing: Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and Drexel University in Philadelphia. KPI has matched five of its faculties, from energy and robotics to computer science, to three Drexel master's programs. Drexel has sent a letter of interest. The first students could arrive in fall 2027 or spring 2028.

In design: programs with Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic and Kyiv Aviation Institute.

We are looking for

  • American universities ready to host Ukrainian students for one semester and grant course credit.
  • American professors willing to teach in Ukraine for a few weeks or a full semester.
  • Sponsors who will fund a student, a fellow, or a whole first cohort.

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