Fund of Funds of Ukraine

2021: In Ukraine, 50% of training in IT specialties will be paid by the state

In December 2021, Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine Mikhail Fedorov announced the launch of a state program for co-financing training in IT specialties in the country. The new initiative is designed to attract thousands of new developers.

In 2022, Ukrainians will be able to receive a 50% discount when choosing an IT education. For these purposes, the so-called Learning Fund is launched.

According to Fedorov, by the end of 2021 To Ukraine , about 50 thousand are not enough for IT professionals, so that all companies develop according to their plans, so that all vacancies are occupied.

In Ukraine, half of the cost of training in IT specialties will be paid by the state

We want to get thousands of graduates in the new year thanks to this program. To stimulate the development of both online education and the development of the so-called sweaters - people changing the profession, "Fedorov said.

In addition to the Training Fund, in 2022 the Fund of Funds for financing startups will be launched in Ukraine. Both projects will be financed through an article in the state budget-2022 "Development of priority projects in the information technology industry," for which 450 million UAH was allocated.

Due to it, as the head of the Ministry of Digital Affairs of Ukraine noted, it is also planned to finance the accelerator project for dual-use technologies, the idea of ​ ​ which was discussed in the summer of 2021. By December, the ministry is deciding how to most effectively distribute 450 million UAH between these three projects.

InterfaxUkraine"-" recalls that the idea of ​ ​ the Fund of Funds was already discussed in Ukraine during the government of Vladimir Groysman more than three years ago along with the concept of the Startup Fund, but the latter was created by the Ministry of Finance in 2019, and the Fund of Funds is not.

In early September 2021, Mikhail Fedorov said that Ukraine intends not just to invest in startups, but to direct funds to the best world venture funds so that they later invest in Ukrainian projects.^[1]

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