At Karazin University, an Advanced Research Center — a Scientific Laboratory — will be established

On October 22, 2024, in Kyiv, the Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine, Oksen Lisovyi, and the Federal Minister of Education and Research of Germany, Bettina Stark-Watzinger, signed an Agreement between the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and the Government of Germany on cooperation in the fields of science, technology, innovation, and higher education. This agreement, among other things, provides for the establishment of four advanced research centers in Ukraine. These centers will operate in Lviv, Kharkiv, and Kyiv, and will receive financial support from Germany amounting to approximately 10 million euros.

In Kharkiv, the center’s activities will focus on the application of plasma technologies in spintronics, opening new possibilities for the development of advanced electronic devices. Karazin University, in partnership with the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle, Germany, won a grant from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) to establish a "Core of Excellence" (CoE) in Kharkiv — a research lab meeting the highest global standards. The Karazin University project is named PLASMA-SPIN-ENERGY. It aims to implement advanced plasma technologies developed by Karazin University experts into state-of-the-art nanoscale spintronic devices being developed by German colleagues.

The preparation of this project took over two years at Karazin University in cooperation with the Institute of Microstructure Physics, under the support of Professor Stuart Parkin, the institute's director. Senior researcher Stanislav Dudin from the Education and Research Institute of Physics and Technology, along with Maksym Khruslov, head of the Department of Electronics and Control Systems at the Education and Research Institute of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, played an active role in the project’s preparation and presentation. The university's rector, Tetyana Kaganovska, participated in the project announcement and the event.