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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky Chairs Meeting of the National Investment Council of Ukraine at Ukraine House Davos

The Government House hosted an event to sum up the results of the information campaign «Eurointegration: the Power of Opportunities». The campaign, which lasted for over a year, was launched and implemented by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine with the support of a number of partners. It aimed to clarify and popularize the practical advantages and opportunities that Ukrainians already have or will soon obtain as a result of the European integration policy of Ukraine.

From the 1st of April to the 31st of May 2019, amalgamated territorial communities from 23 regions of Ukraine submitted 182 applications to the DREAMactions 3.0 Small Grants Competition. Among those 182 applications, 65 are from the rural communities, 56 are from the settlement and 59 are from the urban communities. WNISEF and CANactions School, the organizers of the competition, chose the winners.

On June 1, the PeremohaSpace coworking hosted 21 teams of girls aged 10-18, coming from 21 Ukrainian cities to pitch their projects at the Regional Technovation Challenge 2019, a global IT education program for teenage girls.

Apriorit, an international IT company with 17 years of expertise in developing and researching cyber security and system management software solutions, partnered up the Technovation Challenge contest. The contest has been held in Ukraine since 2016 with the support of the Western NIS Enterprise Fund in cooperation with the Peace Corps in Ukraine.

On February 6, 2019, the Educational Complex № 141 “ORT” (5, I. Shamo Boulevard, Kyiv) hosted a press conference showcasing the interim results of the “New School Nutrition” project. The project team, accompanied by representatives of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and the Western NIS Enterprise Fund (WNISEF), presented a new “Cookbook with recipes for school-age children nutrition in organized educational and recreational facilities,” developed by a food expert Evgeniy Klopotenko.

– A presentation of the third IT-entrepreneurship contest for schoolgirls Teсhnovation Challenge 2019 along with the discussion of IT-opportunities was held at the Grammarly office in Kyiv. Since Ukraine has introduced the program back in 2017, it yielded 45 girl teams developing mobile apps with significant social impact.

More than 150 mayors and their deputies from throughout Ukraine along with their foreign colleagues from 10 countries are brought together in Kyiv at the International Mayors Summit. Local development experts and innovative business representatives attend the event along with the city authorities. For the third year in a row, the International Mayors Summit that […]

Western NIS Enterprise Fund granted another social loan via Oschadbank under the Social Entrepreneurship program. It went to the Dontech Ex, LLC from Druzhkivka, Donetsk region, which produces wooden containers for the local enterprises and provides substantial support to the displaced persons from the ATO zone. The company provides low-income families and the military of Druzhkivka with firewood, which is, in fact, the production waste. Moreover, Dontech Ex employs the internally displaced persons.

CES-2019 applications from Ukrainian startups are accepted by the end of September 2018