On 29-30 April 2021, important events took place at the Educational and Scientific Institute of Ecology at Kharkiv V.N.Karazin National University: the traditional annual International Scientific-and-Practical Conference ‘Environmental Science, Environmental Control and Sustainable Environmental Management: Education – Science – Production – 2021’ and an international online seminar under the ERASMUS+ projects “Integrated Doctoral Program for Environmental Policy, Management and Technology – INTENSE” and Jean Monnet Module “Instruments of the EU Environmental Policy – INENCY”. This conference also served as a launching event for the series of online INTENSE Ukraine doctoral seminars that will be regularly organised by INTENSE partners to highlight and promote the INTENSE Doctoral School in Ukraine, to consolidate the national INTENSE community, and to provide networking opportunities to students and their supervisors. The next event in the series will focus on the development of green and blue infrastructure and take place towards the end of May 2021. It will be announced on the INTENSE site.