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Businessman Vasyl Khmelnytsky’s K.Fund and Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute will build and open in Kharkiv the Innovations Campus educational space worth more than UAH 60 million by the end of 2018, the press service of the UFuture investment group has reported.
“Construction work is due to begin in April, and the campus will start operating at the end of 2018. The task of the project is to enable Ukrainian specialists to develop and be successful in Ukraine,” the report says.
The training will be based on an innovative educational program, which was developed by UNIT Factory specialists in cooperation with Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute and other Ukrainian higher educational establishments.
In addition, the Small and Medium Entrepreneurship School will continue its work at the campus, whereas modern co-working will open the possibility for start-ups and creative young professionals to get jobs, qualified professional business support, security, access to knowledge.
The organizers also plan to attract investments from the state, enterprises and local business to finance this social and educational project.
As reported, First Vice-President of the Ukrainian League of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (ULIE) Vasyl Khmelnytsky is the majority shareholder of UDP.
In early October 2017, he merged his business projects and social initiatives under the brand UFuture Investment Group (Brussels). The chief managing director of UFuture became the head of the ULIE office in Brussels, Mykola Tymoschuk.
The group included UDP, as well as businesses of Khmelnytsky: UDP Renewables, Bila Tserkva industrial park, innovative parks UNIT.City and LvivTech.City. The group is open to the creation of joint ventures and the attraction of new partners.
Support of social projects in the sphere of economy and education is provided by Khmelnytsky’s K.Fund.
UDP is one of the largest development companies in Ukraine. It has been operating in the market since 2002 and has implemented 11 projects with a total area of 3 million square meters. Among the most famous projects are the development of Kyiv airport, the construction of the Ocean Plaza trade and entertainment center and the RiverStone and Parkove Misto residential complexes in Kyiv.
INNOVATIONS CAMPUS, K.FUND, KHARKIV POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, VASYL KHMELNYTSKY
The World Bank Group’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) may acquire three grain storage facilities from Mriya Agro Holding in Ternopil region as part of debt restructuring.
IFC requested respective permits for assets owned by private enterprise Noriia Zakhid, Black Bryony Holdings LLC and Elagri-Derenivka LLC, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine has said.
As reported, Mriya and IFC in May 2017 agreed on the terms of restructuring of the holding’s debt. The parties agreed to split the debt into a secured and unsecured part. They also stipulated terms for restructuring the secured part of the debt. Mriya’s unsecured debt to IFC will be restructured on common conditions for all unsecured creditors.
Mriya’s total debt is $1.087 billion, of which $46 million is loans for working capital, $7 million for leasing of agricultural machinery, $130 million is secured loans, and $904 million is unsecured loans.
After the restructuring, the amount of secured loans will be reduced to $62 million, unsecured ones to $ 213 million.
Mriya is a vertically integrated agro-industrial holding founded by Ivan Huta in 1992. Today, its land bank is 165,000 ha in Ternopil, Khmelnytsky, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Lviv and Rivne regions. The capacity of its grain storage facilities is estimated at 380,000 tonnes.
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) will provide Ukraine with $350,000 in grant assistance as part of the project to improve the situation with hazardous chemicals in the country. According to the GEF’s report released on Tuesday, April 17, the project aims to monitor and assess the real situation throughout Ukraine regarding the quantity and condition of hazardous chemicals, update the national implementation plan for Ukraine’s international obligations on the management of unsuitable chemicals, and ensure the reporting by the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.
The GEF noted that on September 5, 2007, Ukraine ratified the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, recognizing the need to draw up a national plan for the implementation of its obligations, which should be regularly submitted to the Secretariat of the Convention.
Despite the preparation of such a plan and the beginning of the export of unsuitable chemicals for destruction to EU countries since 2007, Ukraine continues to struggle with a number of problems, among them the impossibility of a reliable assessment of the status of treatment and the quantity of extremely hazardous chemicals available through their storage in unsuitable places and limited access to them.
The GEF said that according to the latest assessment of the treatment of obsolete and banned pesticides in Ukraine, in January 2013, there were 11 tonnes of unsuitable chemicals in the country located on the territory of 1,200 storage facilities.
Under the provisions of the Stockholm Convention, developing countries and countries with transition economies are able to obtain additional funds for the development and updating of the National Implementation Plan. Under such a mechanism, the GEF announced the provision of respective grants at the 5th meeting of the Conference of the Parties. Ukraine has become one of the beneficiaries of the program.
Nestle, one of the world’s largest producers of food products, has invested more than UAH 10 million in energy efficiency projects in Ukraine, said CEO at Nestle Ukraine Ansgar Bornemann. “The company has invested more than UAH 10 million in 22 energy efficiency projects in Ukraine. This allowed 8% energy savings,” he said at a press conference in Kyiv on Wednesday. The top manager also reported on investing UAH 1 million in 12 projects to install special environmentally friendly equipment. “This allowed us to reduce water consumption by 189 tank wagons at the company’s three factories,” he said. Nestle began operations in Ukraine in 1994 with the opening of a representative office. It markets such international brands as Nescafe, Nesquik, Nuts, Friskies, KitKat, etc.
