The workshop Regional Economic Development: Cluster Model will take place on Tuesday, 27 April at 9:00 in Opera hotel (53, B.Khmelnitskogo st).

One of the very first FEG’s projects, implemented in tandem with the World Economic Forum, was the Competitiveness Report of Ukraine and Ukrainian regions. Since then, the Foundation has prepared and published the updated version of this report for the third year in a row. The main goal of this report is to study conditions and requisites of successful cooperation on the global arena. As it turns out, the system of education, from primary to higher, is one of the key prerequisites to competitiveness in any country. And it is quite understandable.

Kyiv, March 30. The system of education in Ukraine should enable the students to acquire knowledge and skills that keep up with the current economic demands. It should also train the graduates for labor mobility and facilitate their adaptation to the changing conditions.

On Tuesday, 30 March, 4.00 pm, a conference hall of Teacher’s House (ul. Vladimirskaya 57, 2nd floor) will host public debate “Ukrainian universities are failing their students”. The debate is organized by the Foundation for Effective Governance and Intelligence Squared (London, UK).

For every debate, we choose a topic very carefully. The subject should be hot, controversial and important for the country’s economy. We believe that despite the rhetoric of politicians, people are united by economy. That is why today we have decided to speak about the economic aspect of Ukrainian-Russian relations

Kyiv, February 25. Under new, post-crisis conditions, Ukraine should concentrate its efforts on improving the investment climate and creating the most favorable conditions for both foreign and domestic inward investors and for all its foreign economic partners.

On Thursday, 25 February, 4.00 pm, a conference hall of Teacher’s House (ul. Vladimirskaya, 57,2nd floor) will host public debate “Ukraine will not overcome the crisis without Russia”. The debate is organized by the Foundation for Effective Governance and Intelligence Squared (London, UK).

February 18-21, 2010 – More than one hundred experts on bankruptcy participated in the conference dedicated to the tenth anniversary of the Law “On Restoring Solvency or Declaring Debtor Bankrupt”.

Foundation for Effective Governance plans to present to the pubic the Ukraine Competitiveness Report covering competitiveness rankings of Ukrainian economy and Ukraine’s regions

Kyiv, December 18. Decentralization may hamper regional development and in the future even pose a threat to Ukraine’s territorial integrity. This is the statement of Pierre Defraigne, economist, Еxecutive Director of the Madariaga College of Europe Foundation, European civil servant from 1970 to 2005 and member of the FEG International Advisory Board. This statement was made during the debate “Decentralization will boost regions’ competitiveness”, which was organized by the Foundation for Effective Governance in partnership with the Intelligence Squared