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

At the web site of informational agency Vector News it was published an interview of I. Zapatrina

Interview

On July 23, 2015 took place the fifth session of the Strategic Council of Ukrainian PPP Development Support Center

The meeting was attended by E. Libanova., E. Kartashov, S. Ermilov, O. Kucherenko, V. Udovychenko, O. Simson, L. Kysterskyy, I. Zapatrina, V. Oleschenko. At the meeting it was reviewed and approved the report of the Center for 2014, defined priority activity directions of the Centre for the short and long-term perspective.

On July 23, 2015 took place the first statutory meeting of the Commission on PPP development issues under Ukrainian National Committee of International Chamber of Trade

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

On July 13-17, 2015 in the framework of cooperation between the Center and University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI) under the project "Enhance energy efficiency of the housing stock in Ukraine (EEEU) through energy performance certificates" it took place a visit of experts Jennifer Duyne and Massimo Mobiglia to Kiev

The goal of the visit was to study opportunities of using modern tools tested in the EU countries for determination of energy efficiency characteristics of buildings and planning of measures of thermos-modernization of buildings.