On February 21 an agreement on cooperation within the framework of the ERA-PLANET project was signed at the Kyiv City State Administration between the Department of Information and Communication Technologies of the executive body of the Kyiv City State Administration, the Space Research Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the State Space Agency of Ukraine and the public organization "SMART SITY HUB".

On December 5, 2017, the Joint Meeting of the Space Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the Scientific and Technical Council of  SSAU, Scientific Council of the of the NAS Space Research Program was held.
The reports on the 20th anniversary of the space flight of .L Kadenyuk, scientific report. "Perspective project of the study of the Moon" BRAUDE-M " (Shkuratov Yu.G) were presented; The Council approved the report on the implementation of NASU Program of the space research in 2017 (Cheremnykh O.K). and. Priority directions of the NASU Program for Space Research for 2018-2022. Information on the programs of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, in which space research is carried out, in particular on target program "Aerospace Observations of the Environment for Sustainable Development and security a national part of Horizon 2020 ERA-PLANET was presented ( Fedorov O)

Director of the Space Research Institute of NAS of Ukraine and SSA of Ukraine, a correspondent member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Oleg Fedorov presented a report «On the National Science Research Program of NAS of Ukraine «Aerospace Observations of the Environment for Sustainable Development and Security as the national segment of the Horizon‑ 2020 ERA-PLANET project (ERA-PLANET / UA)» at the meeting of the Presidium of the NAS of Ukraine on October 25, 2017. As a result of the discussion of the report, the Presidium's resolution on the implementation of the Program for 2018-2020 was confirmed. Concept and the composition of the Scientific Council of Program was approved.