Agro IT: opportunities for foreign IT specialists in Ukraine
Ukrainian IT companies can hire up to a total of 5,000 foreign IT specialists per year. This provides great opportunity for the development of Agro IT cooperation between Ukraine and the Netherlands
Starting from 2 March 2020, Ukrainians IT companies can hire up to a total of 5,000 foreign IT specialists per year under a fast track visa and work permit system, according to Oleksandr Bornyakov, deputy minister for Digital Transformation.
In one of the hottest sectors of Ukraine’s economy, IT companies create 40,000 new IT jobs a year, but local universities only graduate 17,000 specialists each year. The foreigner quota will be geographically dispersed: Kyiv: 2,500; Kharkiv: 700; and Dnipro, Odesa and Lviv: 600 each.
Digitalization and Agro IT is a priority for Dutch-Ukrainian cooperation, it was discussed on 18 February 2020 during Dutch-Ukrainian Agro IT forum in the framework of the Internationonal exhibition Agro Spring 2020.