On December 15-16, 2015 in the premises of the Chamber of Trade and Commerce of Ukraine took place a training seminar “PPP as an instrument of investment attraction”

Organizers of the seminar – the Ministry of economic development and trade of Ukraine and the World bank.  The training was conducted by an advisor of the World bank Jay-Hyung Kim and the World bank consultants Martin Darcy and Iryna Zapatrina.  The program of the seminar and presentations are in the section “Conferences and round tables”.

On December 14, 2015 in news agency "Ukrinform" took place a round table "Ukrainian concession - the new rules of the game", organized by the Institute of Social and Economic Research

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

On December 3-4, 2015 the delegation of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the Business Advisory Board of UNECE have visited Kyiv (Ukraine)

The UNECE delegation included: UNECE Secretariat representative Claudio Meza, the Head of the Delegation; Managing Director of Asian branch of Societe Generale Gevin Munro, Hong Kong; Managing Director of Van Oord Marlies Janssen, the Netherlands; the Chairman of InfraLinxCapital Richard Ornitz, USA; the Chairman of the PPP Development Support Center Irina Zapatrina; Partner of "Bessarab and Partners" Tatiana Bessarab.

On December 3 the delegation held meetings with the Ministry of Health of Ukraine and the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine. On December 4 the Ministry of Infrastructure held a workshop on the development of public-private partnership in the transport sector, particularly in modernization of ports of Ukraine.

On November 30, 2015 on the basis of the Kiev National University of Construction and Architecture (KNUBA) took place a round table on the problems of road safety

The organizers - the National Partnership for Road Safety and Research Institute for economic and administrative problems of road safety. The round table was held under the support of the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine.

The Chairman of the Board of the Center I. Zapatrina has made a speech at the round table.

The Chairman of the Board of the Center I. Zapatrina was included in the Work Group on construction of modern European penal institutions and detention centers of the State Penal Service of Ukraine under the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine

The head of the Work Group – the First Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine Natalia Sevostyanova

On November 24, 2015 Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has adopted draft law #1058 "On amendments to some legislative acts of Ukraine (regarding the removal of regulatory barriers to the development of public-private partnership in Ukraine and stimulation of investment)", which provides for amendments to the Law of Ukraine "On Public-Private Partnership "," On state property "," On concessions "

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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.