Representatives of Melitopol City Council are visiting Lviv at invitation of the Center for Civil Initiatives (CeHrIn). Today they visit our office to discuss drawing investments and the role of NGOs in this process. According to the visitors, Melitopol’s feature is a large number of once powerful industrial enterprises, which […]

Guests form Melitopol are visiting our office


The Institute for Policy Studies has joined the Partnership for Sustainable Development Goals in Ukraine “Incubator for Green Communities”. The Incubator for Green Communities is established by representatives of the civil society to jointly create and implement a strategic vision for Ukraine’s development, based on sustainable development approach. The mission […]

Partnership for Sustainable Development Goals in Ukraine


On Saturday, May 21 our organization for the sixth time became the co-organizer of Europe Day celebration and oblast Forum of school euroclubs of Lviv region. This year Sambir welcomed us again. 23 euroclubs from different rayons came to the celebration. The European tent city was organized in the central […]

Europe Day in St. Valentine’s city



On May, 17 representatives of NGOs from Moldova visited our office. They are in Lviv in the framework of  the project for establishing cooperation between civic society of Ukraine and Moldova, implemented by “The Lion Society” (Lviv) and Association Promo-LEX (Kyshyniv). In Lviv Moldanian activists study the activity of our […]

Visit of NGO leaders from Moldova


Welcome to the investment portal InWestUkraine, created as a part of the project “The School of drawing investments for public administration units of Western Ukraine”. 45 investment proposals of 12 cities, participating in the project, are represented on the portal. Among them: Volodymyr-Volynskyy (Volyn oblast); Dubno (Rivne oblast); Zhovkva,Mostyska, Truskavets, […]

The investment portal InWestUkraine is launched


The final conference of “The school of drawing investments for public administration units of Western Ukraine” Project was held on December 16, 2015. This time representatives of all 12 cities participating in the project as well as Polish trainers and project organizers gathered in Lviv. During two years the project […]

Summing up the project “School of drawing investments”



The institute for Policy Studies has completed the project on training the members of territorial election commissions. During September-October 2015 our trainers conducted 157 trainings in Volyn, Rivne, Ternopil and Khmelnytskyy oblasts. The financial support of the project was provided by IFES. 26 preliminary trained trainers of the organization who […]

Election commissions training is completed


What may Ukrainians expect from the reform of local self-government? Haw was that in Pland? How do Polish communities assess the administrative reform in their country after almost 20 years? 45 Ukrainian journalists who have taken part in informational visits to Poland within the project “Ukrainian School of Journalism” had […]

Journalists visits to Poland


During May 2015 two groups of the project “School of drawing investments for public administration units of Western Ukraine” have got a possibility to see themselves how the instruments of drawing foreign investments work on the example of Polish gminas. The organizers of study visit provided very interesting program. Representatives […]

Polish experience of drawing investments