The Expert Committee at the Technical Cooperation Digital Bridge to Ukraine Program involves experts by invitation only from Canada, United States and European Union, who has over 10 years of experience in executing international technical cooperation (assistance) projects and who maintain their active connections with technical assistance funding opportunities in sector(s) of their expertise such as:
- Housing Infrastructure
- Law Enforcement and Justice
- Social Infrastructure
- Industrial Infrastructure
- Oils and Natural Gas, Energy
- Aerospace
- Advanced Manufacturing
- Automotive
- Railroads
- Chemicals and Plastics
- Advanced Technologies
- Transportation
- Metals and Mineral Products
- Machinery and Tools
- Heating and Comfort Systems
- Information and Communication Technology
- Education
- Health Care
- Agriculture and Processed Food
- Real Estate
- Exports and Wholesale Trade
- Management of Companies
- Water
The experts of the Expert Committee review Technical Cooperation Requests and provide recommendations regarding improvement and potential sources of funding for the initiatives.
We keep working on expansion of the expert network. If you know someone, who has over 10 years of experience in development and executing international technical cooperation projects and who maintains active connections with some of the industry sectors listed above, and you want to recommend the person, please, do not hesitate to contact us on this matter by submitting Recommend an Expert form.
Members of the Expert Committee of the TCDB to Ukraine Program have their personal account with IBC Bridge Platform and extended permissions to be able to
- get notification from system about new or commented TARs that are within their subject area;
- access and review published initiatives, be connected to ad-hoc groups to work on transformation of specific initiative(s) into project proposal(s) for funding,
- comment and forward selected Technical Cooperation Initiative for consideration of other experts of TCDB to Ukraine Program;
- identify and communicate to Program team available funding opportunities for given TAR(s);
- communicate to members of the group their vision of funding mechanism, modalities of application process, requirements, etc.;
- work together with technical cooperation beneficiaries and other subject matter experts towards mutually agreed solutions;
- share best practices, propose new ideas and approaches to consolidation of related technical cooperation initiatives into one more comprehensive joint initiative;
- lead their blog on IBC Bridge Platform to generate new technical cooperation initiatives to be posted by their authors in form of the TARs;
- post the content that is important for transformation of an initiative into real project;
- provide their inputs to the technical cooperation programs and projects that emerge from the technical cooperation initiatives they were working on.