Portugal will open entry for Ukrainians from July 26 in accordance with the recommendations of the EU Council, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said.
“Portugal opens from July 26 for all types of travel of Ukrainians according to the recommendation of the EU Council. Country by country we are returning the full effect of visa-free travel with the European Union,” Kuleba wrote on his Twitter microblog on Sunday, July 25.
Kuleba said that before buying tickets, it is necessary to check all the conditions for entering the country according to the interactive map of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Project finalists will have the opportunity to develop their own design project and undergo an internship in a business environment
Ukrainian cultural organizations have developed an innovative international educational program European Design Upgrade (EDU 2.0) for graduate students. The 2021 project is aimed at the development of creative industries and support for talented students of design and creative industries and is a continuation of the implemented international project in 2020.
EDU 2.0 is supported by the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation and implemented by the Vasyl Khmelnytsky K.Fund foundation and the non-governmental organization GoLocal. UNIT.City innovation parks in Kyiv and Kharkiv are business partners.
With the program, course participants will have the opportunity to increase their awareness and competitiveness, expand their worldview and gain understanding of the latest trends and achievements of European design, which were used in the European Design Upgrade project in 2020 and preparation for Ukrainian designers in Dutch Design Week 2020.
The project program will be available in Ukrainian and English and will include blocks: “Philosophy and concept of design”, “Urban design and innovative technologies”, “Business strategies for sustainable design”, “Humanistic design of the future”, two hackathons and final presentations of design ideas business representatives.
Among the advantages of the course are lecturer and mentoring support of leading Ukrainian designers and entrepreneurs of the creative sector, an active student network of designers, applied application of design concepts and interaction throughout the project with the innovative business environment. The finalists of the project, whose ideas will find a response from the partners, will have the opportunity to undergo an internship.
The project will run from early August to late October 2021. The ideal applicant must fill out a complete questionnaire, present the idea of their own project, indicate their own motivation and be a graduate of specialized universities. It is possible to become a participant of the program after filling in the form and interview-interviews with the project curators.
More about the program “Development of European Design” via the link.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The K.Fund foundation was founded by Ukrainian entrepreneur Vasyl Khmelnytsky in 2015 to support projects in the field of education and economics. K.Fund’s mission is to provide keys for development and implementation, provide opportunities for new knowledge and skills, facilitate discovery and help reach a new level.
The project is funded with support from the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved the strategy for reforming the public administration of Ukraine for 2022-2025, as well as an action plan for the implementation of this strategy.
The relevant decision was made at the Wednesday government meeting.
“The new strategy is a continuation of the previous stage of implementation of public administration reform and is based on the results of the assessment of the government of public administration in Ukraine, carried out by experts from the Support for Improvement in Governance and Management (SIGMA),” Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers Oleh Nemchinov said in the Telegram channel.
According to him, some 82% of the surveyed citizens consider the reform of public administration important, some 65% of citizens are satisfied with the service in the centers for the provision of administrative services.
“At the same time, the introduction of the general administrative procedure, the reform of remuneration in the civil service and a number of other aspects requires implementation,” he said.
The main goal of the strategy is to build a capable service and digital state in Ukraine that protects the interests of citizens based on European standards and experience.
The expected results of the public administration reform until 2025 include ensuring the provision of high quality services and the formation of a convenient administrative procedure for citizens and businesses; formation of a professional and politically neutral public service system focused on protecting the interests of citizens; development of effective and accountable to citizens of public institutions that form government policy and successfully implement it for the sustainable development of the country.
ADMINISTRATION, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, REFORMING, STRATEGY REFORMING
The United States will return to Ukraine, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia funeral scrolls and manuscripts stolen by the Nazis from Jewish synagogues and homes in Europe during the Holocaust, according to the website of the U.S. Department of Justice.
“Countries will return 17 funeral scrolls, manuscripts and other historical documents dating from the middle of the 19th century to the Second World War. They were confiscated from Jewish communities and disappeared during the Holocaust. The artifacts were found through a Brooklyn auction house that offered them for sale,” the U.S. Department of Justice said.
It is noted that the artifacts contain invaluable historical information that belongs to the descendants of families who lived in Jewish communities before the Holocaust.
At first, the artifacts were going to be auctioned in New York, but they were confiscated.
The auction house Kestenbaum&Company, in consultation with the World Jewish Restitution Organization, removed the artifacts from the auction.
The city of Odesa in June this year attracted five-year loans from the state-owned Oschadbank, Ukreximbank and Ukrgasbank for a total of UAH 1.2 billion, and the cities of Lviv, Novomoskovsk and Khmelnytsky – three more five-year loans for UAH 350 million.
According to the information of the Ministry of Finance on its website, apart from Khmelnytsky, all loans were obtained at a floating rate pegged to the key policy rate of the National Bank of Ukraine.
In the case of Odesa, the loan price was the NBU key policy rate + 4.5%: Oschadbank and Ukreximbank each allocated UAH 450 million, and Ukrgasbank – UAH 300 million.
Lviv managed to attract funds the cheapest of all – UAH 220 million from Ukrgasbank at the NBU key policy rate + 2.5%, while the smaller city – Novomoskovsk (Dnipropetrovsk region) raised UAH 70 million from Ukreximbank at the NBU key policy rate + 5.3%.
Khmelnytsky was able to get UAH 60 million from Ukrgasbank at 11.9%.
MAIN TRADE PARTNERS OF UKRAINE IN % FROM TOTAL VOLUME (IMPORT FROM OTHER COUNTRIES TO UKRAINE) JAN- APRIL 2021
