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)

The Government detailed 8 medium-term priority directions of innovation activity of the national level for the years 2017–2021 on October 23, 2017. The resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers on October 18, 2017.
In particular, among directions:

• development of new technologies for the high-tech development of the transport system, rocket and space industry, aircraft and ship construction, armament and military equipment;
• development of modern information and communication technologies, robotics.

Medium-term priority directions of innovation activity of the national level for the years 2017–2021 were approved by the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on December 28, 2016.