On October 18, 2015 in IESE Business School (Barcelona) took place the first meeting of the UNECE International PPP Centres of Excellence and representatives of the Business Advisory Board of UNECE

At the meeting it was presented the activity of PPP centres of excellence in Brazil, Spain, Morocco, Lebanon, China, France, the Philippines, Russia, Japan; discussed the status of preparation of international PPP standards; determined the main directions of cooperation between UNECE International PPP Centres of Excellence in the development of public-private partnership.

The meeting was attended by prof. I. Zapatrina.

On October 17, 2015 at the International Exhibition "Smart and sustainable cities" in Barcelona (Spain) took place international conference "Fostering sustainability and innovation in cities through public-private partnership"

Conference organizers - UNECE International PPP Center of Excellence "PPP for cities" (Barcelona).

The conference has covered the following topics:

Presentation of the First International Guidelines to transform cities into smart and sustainable through public-private partnerships;

Governance challenges of PPPs in urban projects;

Financing PPPs in smart and sustainable cities;

Do we need new models of PPP in smart cities?

The conference brought together experts on urban governance, representatives of local governments and PPP centers from almost all countries. Prof. I. Zapatrina has made a presentation at the conference.

On November 6, 2015 in Minsk took place international conference "Towards a successful public-private partnership in the Republic of Belarus: retrospective and prospects"

The Chairman of the Board of the Center I. Zapatrina made a presentation at the conference "New challenges in building national capacity in context of  achieving sustainable development goals: solutions for both Ukraine and Russia."

On November 5, 2015 in Minsk took place the second meeting of the Expert Group for the development of public-private partnership in the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union with participation of experts of Business Advisory Council of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

At the meeting it was discussed the issues on development of legislation in the field of public-private partnership on examples of Belarus, Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, problem issues of implementation of pilot projects based on PPP, international standards in field of PPP and peculiarities of their introduction into the national legislation.

The meeting was attended by the Chairman of the Board of the Center I. Zapatrina.

On November 4-5, 2015 in Kyiv took place the first Ukrainian conference-seminar "Energy efficiency and energy saving in educational institutions: new challenges and opportunities", organized by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the National ecological center of students, NGO "School of energy"

The conference-seminar was attended by about 300 participants, including representatives of the Ministries of Education and Science; Finance; Regional Development, Construction and Housing and Communal Services of Ukraine; the State Committee for Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving of Ukraine; the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, NEFCO; Project GIZ "Energy Efficiency in Buildings", USAID Municipal Energy Reform Project, Ukrainian  Association of energy auditors, and other relevant associations and NGOs; responsible for energy and education entities of local governments; directors of schools and other educational institutions.

 The Chairman of the Board of the Center I. Zapatrina has made a presentation "New organizational and legal mechanisms for implementation of energy efficiency measures in buildings of public sector"

On October 28, 2015 it was signed Memorandum of cooperation between the Ukrainian PPP Development Support Center and NGO "Institute for Spatial Development"

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Participation in the international conference “Development of projects, financing opportunity and further cooperation” organized by the World Bank and Municipal Energy Reform Project of USAID

On October 6, 2015 I. Zapatrina took part in the event  and made a presentation “Increasing of energy performance of public buildings using PPP mechanisms”.

On September 18, 2015 in the newspaper “Zerkalo nedeli” t was published ab interview of Irina Zapatrina, the Chairman of the Board of the Center “Each citizen has a right to know actual price of energy resources and how the tariffs are formed”

The link to the Article

On September 2, 2015 the Committee on Innovation, Competitiveness and Public-Private Partnership of UNICE has held the High-level International Conference "Unlocking the Economic Potential for Sustainable Development - the Role of Trade, Innovation and Public Private Partnership”

One of the main points discussed during the conference is "Putting PPPs on the Path to Sustainable Development Goals achieving". The chairman of the Board of the Center I. Zapatrina took part in the event.

On August 14, 2015 at the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade took place a regular meeting of working group on PPP development

At the meeting it was discussed the draft Law on Amendments to the Budget Code of Ukraine concerning the possibility of taking long-term budgetary commitments on PPP projects prepared by the Ministry, as well as changes to the procedure of calculation of concession fees. The meeting was attended by the Chairman of the Board of the Center I. Zapatrina