On September 23, 2010 in  the premises of the Institute of economy and forecasting (Kyiv, P. Myrnogo Str., 26) took place the first meeting of Strategic Council of Ukrainian Public-Private Partnership Development Center.

The meeting of the Strategic Council was opened by V. Heyets, the founder of the Center, who has presented a speech “Partnership of the state, science and business in modernization of economy: world trends and situation in Ukraine”

I. Zapatrina has made a presentation “The role of the Center in development of public-private partnership in Ukraine: the first conclusions of the activity and tasks for 2010-2011” (презентація).

In discussion took part Y. Libanova,  academician of NAS of Ukraine, secretary of the Economy Department of  NAS of Ukraine, director of Institute for Demography and Social Research, V. Goncharuk, academician of NAS of Ukraine, I. Kucherenko, doctor of juridical sciences, member of the board of the Center,  L. Kisterskiy, doctor of economic sciences, the member of Supervisory Council of the Center, members of the Strategic Council – O. Kucherenko, S. Yermilov, D. Shvydchenko.

As a result of discussion on the Strategic Council’s vision regarding the perspectives of development of public-private partnership in Ukraine and the activity of the Center the following conclusions have been made:

- at the modern stage of PPP development in Ukraine it is important to develop methodological and scientific basis, to improve legislation, and to adopt the widely used PPP mechanisms in Ukraine;

- in today’s conditions Ukraine is neither methodologically no institutionally ready to implementation of large-scale PPP based projects; at the same time development and implementation of pilot projects in small cities is a perspective direction, it will make possible to work out appropriate for using in Ukraine PPP mechanisms and models; the urgent projects for today are those related to modernization of housing and communal infrastructure, in particular, solid waste treatment, wastewater treatment, ensuring of water of high quality to the population, these projects could have an important social and ecological effect;

- scientific community  has to actively participate in formation of ideology and methodology in field of PPP in Ukraine, to ensure proper expertise of PPP based projects implementation at all stages of their implementation, to ensure preparation of qualified specialists in this field.

In order to implement these tasks it was decided:

- to consolidate affords of the members of the Strategic Council and to study opportunities of financial support of scientific-methodological  support of PPP in Ukraine,

- to initiate conduction of analytical researches in this field in cooperation with international organizations;

- to support implementation of pilot projects in Donetsk region and in Mykolayiv with participation of the Center;

- to attract the members of the Strategic Council to preparation for the review of issues related to scientific support of PPP development in Ukraine at the meeting of the presidium of NAS of Ukraine.

E. Libanova has been unanimously elected to be the head of the Strategic Council of the Center.

On September 23, 2010 in  the premises of the Institute of economy and forecasting (Kyiv, P. Myrnogo Str., 26) took place the first meeting of Strategic Council of Ukrainian Public-Private Partnership Development Center.

The meeting of the Strategic Council was opened by V. Heyets, the founder of the Center, who has presented a speech “Partnership of the state, science and business in modernization of economy: world trends and situation in Ukraine”

I. Zapatrina has made a presentation “The role of the Center in development of public-private partnership in Ukraine: the first conclusions of the activity and tasks for 2010-2011”.

In discussion took part Y. Libanova,  academician of NAS of Ukraine, secretary of the Economy Department of  NAS of Ukraine, director of Institute for Demography and Social Research, V. Goncharuk, academician of NAS of Ukraine, I. Kucherenko, doctor of juridical sciences, member of the board of the Center,  L. Kisterskiy, doctor of economic sciences, the member of Supervisory Council of the Center, members of the Strategic Council – O. Kucherenko, S. Yermilov, D. Shvydchenko.

As a result of discussion on the Strategic Council’s vision regarding the perspectives of development of public-private partnership in Ukraine and the activity of the Center the following conclusions have been made:

- at the modern stage of PPP development in Ukraine it is important to develop methodological and scientific basis, to improve legislation, and to adopt the widely used PPP mechanisms in Ukraine;

- in today’s conditions Ukraine is neither methodologically no institutionally ready to implementation of large-scale PPP based projects; at the same time development and implementation of pilot projects in small cities is a perspective direction, it will make possible to work out appropriate for using in Ukraine PPP mechanisms and models; the urgent projects for today are those related to modernization of housing and communal infrastructure, in particular, solid waste treatment, wastewater treatment, ensuring of water of high quality to the population, these projects could have an important social and ecological effect;

- scientific community  has to actively participate in formation of ideology and methodology in field of PPP in Ukraine, to ensure proper expertise of PPP based projects implementation at all stages of their implementation, to ensure preparation of qualified specialists in this field.

In order to implement these tasks it was decided:

- to consolidate affords of the members of the Strategic Council and to study opportunities of financial support of scientific-methodological  support of PPP in Ukraine,

- to initiate conduction of analytical researches in this field in cooperation with international organizations;

- to support implementation of pilot projects in Donetsk region and in Mykolayiv with participation of the Center;

- to attract the members of the Strategic Council to preparation for the review of issues related to scientific support of PPP development in Ukraine at the meeting of the presidium of NAS of Ukraine.

E. Libanova has been unanimously elected to be the head of the Strategic Council of the Center.