On November 17, 2016 the Chairman of the Board of the Center (President of Academy of PPP) professor Irina Zapatrina has participated in the conference «Transformation of cities into Sustainable and Smart» with presentation «Key issues of city management for ensuring success for PPPs». The conference was organized by UNECE International Center of Excellence “PPPs for cities” in the framework of International Exhibition “Smart cities”

In her presentation Irina Zapatrina has analyzed peculiarities of implementation of PPP projects in regard to state and communal ownership objects in the context of UN Sustainable Development Goals until 2030; underlined importance of support of small and medium-sized cities that initiate and implement sustainable development strategies by international organizations and donor- countries; informed the participants about innovation methodological approaches used by specialists of the Academy of PPP while developing the Strategy of the city of Olexandriya.