On 9-11 May 2017 in Hong Kong took place International PPP Forum "Implementing the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development through effective, people-first Public-Private Partnerships", organized by UN Economic Commission for Europe

The forum brought together experts on PPPs, representatives of government and business from more than 20 countries. The delegation of Ukraine was presented by Irina Zapatrina - Chairman of the Board of Ukrainian PPP Center, Anna Shatkovska - president of Academy of PPP, Natalia Ivanova - Director of «FORTAX», Andrey Sokolov - Acting Director of Kherson sea port and Alexander Milto - Head of Territory Development Agency and his deputy Anna Nesterenko  from Kropivnitskiyi.

At the forum Irina Zapatrina has made presentations in the framework of two panel discussions. The presentations could be downloaded using the links below:

Presentation 1. City Sustainable Development Strategies and SDGs

Presentation 2. Mechanical biological treatment plant in Khmelnitsky as the the first Waste PPP in Ukraine

On April 24 2017 in the State Agency for Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving of Ukraine took place a meeting dedicated to discussion of a pilot project on construction of waste recycling plant in Khmelnitskiy based on PPP

The meeting was attended by the Head of the Agency Serhei Savchuk, deputy Mayor of Khmelnitsky Vladimir Goncharuk, the Chaiman of the Board of the Center Irina Zapatrina and representatives of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine.

In the magazine EPPPL it was published the article of Irina Zapatrina and Anna Shatkovska “Recent Developments in PPP Legislation in Ukraine” - Journal: EPPPL - Issue: 1/2017

Irina Zapatrina took part in the Eleven session of Committee on Innovation, Competitiveness and Public-Private Partnership of the UN Economic Commission for Europe including two-days discussion “Financing Innovation and People-First Public-Private Partnerships for Sustainable Development”, which was held in Geneva, Switzerland on March 20-22, 2017

On March 6-7, 2017 the Chairman of the Board of the Center Irina Zapatrina took part in Expert Group Meeting on “Updating the UNCITRAL PFIP Legislative Guide”. The meeting was held in the premises of UNCITRAL in Vienna (Austria)

On February 14, 2017 the Chairman of the Board of the Center I. Zapatrina has made a presentation "Opportunities for public-private partnership in the sphere of science and education" at the round table "Public-Private Partnership and Joint Technology Initiatives - Exploring the further development on multilateral cooperation activities" organized by the Ministry of education and science of Ukraine and the Program HORZON 2020

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In "Yuridychna gazeta" dated December 14, 2016 it was published an article by Irina Zapatrina "Legal regulation is not the main obstacle to the implementation of PPPs"

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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.

On November 3, 2016 in the framework of cooperation of the Center with the University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland (SUSPI) for the project "Enhance energy efficiency of the housing stock in Ukraine (EEEU) through energy performance certificates " in the Kiev National University of Technology and Design (KNUTD) it was conducted a round table on the results of the project

The round table has been opened by the Vice-Rector for Research and Innovation of Kyiv National University of Technology and Design Prof. Dr. Viktor Kaplun.

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On October 26-27, 2016 in Minsk (Belarus) took place International conference “Laying the foundation in the UNECE region for economic integration and sustainable development towards 2030”

The Chairman of the Board of the Center I.Zapatrina has made a presentation in the framework of the session “Investment and innovation – Making Change Happen”.