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VIII LVIV INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC FORUM
"European Partnership - Open Opportunities"

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2008

Scientists’ Hall, 6 Lystopadovoho Chynu St

19:00 Cocktail party – Forum hosts are welcoming the guests of Lviv International Economic Forum
Мykola Kmit, Head of Lviv Regional State Administration
Аndriy Sadovyi, Lviv City Mayor
Мyroslav Senyk, Head of Lviv Regional Council

 

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2008

Assembly Hall of Ivan Franko Lviv National University, 1 Universytetska St.

8:00 – 9:00  REGISTRATION OF PARTICIPANTS
9:00 – 9:15 GRAND OPENING OF THE FORUM, WELCOMING SPEECHE

9:00 – 9:05 Мykola Kmit, Head of Lviv Regional State Administration
9:05 – 9:10 Аndriy Sadovyi, Lviv City Mayor
9:10 – 9:15 Мyroslav Senyk, Head of Lviv Regional Council

 

9:15 – 13:00 FORUM PLENARY SESSION

Assembly Hall of Ivan Franko Lviv National University, 1 Universytetska St.

Sustainable development of the regions as a foundation for the growth of competitive national economies

Speakers:

9:15-9:25 Viktor Kapustin, Chairman of the Board “Ukreximbank”
9:25-9:35 Lev Holubets, partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers
9:35-09:45 Vitaliy Lomakovych, Chairman of the board BM Bank
9:45-9:55 Yavuz Mildon, President of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe
9:55-10:05 Eva Srejber, Vice-President of the European Investment Bank (EIB)
10:05-10:15 Francois Gaudet, EBRD Principal Banker
10:15-10:25 Sergiy Hoperskyi, First Deputy Director of Invest Ukraine
10:25-10:35 Gregor Postl,Trade Representative for the Austrian Trade and Commerce Chamber
10:35-10:45 Оleksandr Lazorko, Chairman of the board, Galychyna Oil-Refining Company

10:45-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15-11:55 WELCOMING SPEECH – Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine

Strategies to attract investments as a precondition for economic development of competitive regions

11:55-12:05 Special guest of the Forum – Danuta Hubner, European Commissioner for Regional Policy

Sustainable regional development lays the foundation for growth and competitiveness

12:05-12:20 Мykola Kmit, Head of Lviv Regional State Administration
12:20-12:35 Аndriy Sadovyi, Lviv City Mayor
12:35-12:45 Roman Bezsmertnyi, Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine
12:45-13:00 Vasyl Kuybida, Minister for Regional Development and Construction of Ukraine

13:00 – 15:00 Lunch break for forum participants (Dniester Hotel, 6 Mateika St.)

SIMULTANIOUS FORUM SESSIONS: 4 PARALEL SESSIONS

Ivan Franko Lviv National University, 1 Universytetska St. (Conference Hall) INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT AND FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS Development of infrastructure and accessibility of territories as a precondition for an economic breakthrough: project examples	Ivan Franko Lviv National University, 1 Universytetska St. (Mirror Hall) INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT AND FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS Effective financial instruments: their role in ensuring sustainable development for cities and regions
Moderator: Lev Holubets, partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers	Moderator: Terry Brown, member of the Board of Directors of EBRD, Executive Director of the EIB
Issues to discuss: Influence of the centralised tariff regulation policy on the development of regional infrastructure and cooperation with investors Implementation of the long-term projects to improve infrastructure – how the regions approach its implementation Action plan – from concept preparation to project implementation. Experiences of the cities and regions of Ukraine, international experience Project examples	Issues to discuss: How can the regions finance long-term projects to improve infrastructure? Which sources of funding are currently available, on which conditions are they working? International financial institutions – "lifesavers" or "debt traps"? Preparing the infrastructure for EURO 2012 – proposals by EIB and EBRD
Speakers: Yosyp Vinsky, Minister for Transport and Communications of Ukraine Zoltan Kazatsay, Deputy Director General, European Commission Directorate-General for Energy and Transport Krszysztof Celinski, Head of the Board PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe S.A. Vasyl Melnychuk, Director General of the Ukrainian National Railroad Administration “Ukrzaliznytsya” Brigitte Wunderlich, Head of the Secretariat of the Pan-European Transport Corridor III Marcus Pfeffer,Senior Loan Officer, European Neighbour and Partner Countries Department, EIB	Speakers: Ihor Shevchenko, deputy Dnipropetrovsk City Mayor Viktor Moyseenko, deputy Donetsk City Mayor Nikolay Тust, project Director in Ukraine and Turkey of the KfW Bank Eva Srejber, Vice-President of the European Investment Bank Alexander Aigner, ALARIS Group, Austria Francois Gaudet, Principal Banker, Department of Municipal and Environmental Infrastructure of EBRD Volodymyr Shevchuk, deputy Lviv City Mayor Malgorzata Chomycz, Podkarpacki Vice Vojevoda Andriy Tolochko, Deputy Director of the Department for Corporate Business, Erste Bank
Scientist’s Hall, 6 Lystopadovoho Chynu St. TOURISM, HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL HERITAGE, MARKETING OF REGIONS Using historical and cultural heritage to boost the growth of tourism market and hospitality industry of the region	Scientist’s Hall, 6 Lystopadovoho Chynu St. TOURISM, HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL HERITAGE, MARKETING OF REGIONS Positioning the regions and cities – how to create effective reality through proper management?
Moderator: Mykola Yakovyna, Deputy Minister for Culture and Tourism of Ukraine	Moderator: Roberto Ferigno, Vice-President, Weber Shandwick EMEA
Issues to discuss: How important is tourism for regional economies? Which strategies should be adopted and which investments should be attracted to the region and the city in order to ensure competitiveness in tourism? How to manage tourism activity of the region? How to maximise the historical and cultural heritage as a marketing factor of the region? International Stone Restoration and Conservation Centre Presentation of castle objects	Issues to discuss: Which positioning strategies are being used by successful regions to compete in Europe and globally? Promoting business? Attracting investments?           Tourism positioning? Strategies to enhance a positive reputation of the city and the region for the target audience Organization of visit centres Lobbying regional interests in the European Union
Speakers: Wolfgang Kippes, CEO of Shoenbrunn Palace Company, Austria Peter Schneyder, Director of the Ukrainian-Austrian project “Galician Crown”, PAN-PLAN GmbH, Austria Jacques Akerboom, The Monumentenwacht Gerhard Hauser, Architect, Austria Andrzej Wyzykowski, Chief of Urban Complex Revitalisation and Development Office of Krakow City Cherkes Bogdan, Director of the Institute of Architecture of National University “Lvivska Politecnika” Borys Voznytskyi, Director of Lviv Art Gallery Mykola Hayda, Director of «Restoration and management of castles and palaces of Lviv Region», communal enterprise of Lviv Regional Council Liliya Onyshchenko-Shvets, Head of Department for preservation of historical and cultural environment Taisiya Bushnel, Advisor to Lviv City Mayor on preservation of architectural heritage Oleksandr Kryskiv, Director of Archaeological and Architectural Service, Lviv Communal Enterprise	Speakers: Franz Schausberger, President of the Institute of Regions of Europe Martins Zemitis, Director, Baltic-Europe Consultancy, ex-President of the Latvian Investments and Development Agency Frank Schwalba-Hoth, Political Strategist Jean-Francois Rivalain, Director "Wider EU advocacy & projects" Yuriy Tretyak, Executive Director of National Association of Regional Development Agencies of Ukraine Andrea Sharon, US National Park Services Specialist Ihor Tymets, Director of the Vynnyky History and  Ethnography Museum Philip De Roo, Municipality of Gent, project manager Public Space Administrative Centrum Sergiy Stetsiuk, senior specialist of the investment Department, Invest Ukraine Mariya Kovaliv, Deputy Chairman of the Board, Association for Economic Development of Ivano-Frankivsk Denis Torkhov, Senior Policy Analyst Ukraine Business Enabling Environment Project, IFC Andrew Veech, archaeologist, Colonial National Historical Park, US National Park Service John Jameson, senior archaeologist and program manager, Southeast Archaeological Center, US National Park Service Coralee Hays, Superintendant, Hovenweep and Natural Bridges National Monuments, US National Park Service
Ivan Franko Lviv National University INFRUSTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT AND FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS Development of infrastructure and accessibility of territories as a precondition for an economic breakthrough – PROJECT PRESENTATIONS
Airport development – reconstruction of the airport “Lviv” (Oleksandr Davydov, Deputy Minister for Transport and Communications of Ukraine, Head of “Derzhaviasluzhba”) and the announcement of the tender conditions to plan and construction of the airport terminal (Anatoliy Kolisnyk, Head of “Derzhaviaadministratsiya”)	Railroad development – Eurotrack project (Bogdan Godziewski, Vice-president of the company “Movares”) and the project of the construction of multifunctional railway complex (Mykhailo Mostovyi, Head of Lviv Railroad
Road construction – concession road Lviv-Krakivets (Mykola Berezovetskyi, Deputy Head of the State road service of Ukraine «Ukravtodor», Kszysztof Bielak, Vice-president on development of NDI SA.)	Development of sport and recreational objects – presentation of the conditions to build sport nad recreational complex “Spartak” (Mykola Bandra, Head of the Department of the management of commonly owned property of Lviv Regional Council) City development – construction of housing  complex Lysynychi (Oleksandr Ganushchyn, Deputy Head of Lviv Regional State Administration
Leisure time: 21:15-23:00 Concert: Symphony Orchestra of Lviv Philharmonic Society Dominican Cathedral Jazz concert – by invitation only

 

 

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2008

Assembly Hall of Ivan Franko Lviv National University, 1 Universytetska St.

10:00 – 11:30 ROUND TABLES

PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP AND CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION Ivan Franko Lviv National University, 1 Univesytetska St. (Mirror Hall)	Scientist’s Hall, 6 Lystopadovogo Chynu St. TAX AUTHORITIES: FACING THE TAX PAYERS
Wolfgang Freund, DLA Piper Bernd Schutzeneder, Marketing Director and Spokesperson of AVE Group Eva Srejber, Vice-President of the EIB Cherenkova Maryna, councillor  of Donetsk Regional Council Stephan Wegert, consultancy company Dreberis Krzysztof Grabczuk, Marshall of the Lubelskie Voivodship Radu Bud, prefect of Satu-Mare region Istvan Serto-Radics, President of RELEX, Committee of the Regions	Representative of PricewaterhouseCoopers Representative(s) of Lviv Tax Administration Representative of the Ministry of Finances of Ukraine Representative of PricewaterhouseCoopersRepresentatives of tax payers (2-3 persons)

10:30-11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 – 12:00 Closing speeches by Forum hosts - Conference Hall of the Ivan franko Lviv national university

Мykola Kmit, Head of Lviv Regional State Administration
Аndriy Sadovyi, Lviv City Mayor
Мyroslav Senyk, Head of Lviv Regional Council

12:00 – 13:00 CLOSING PRESS CONFERENCE
12:00 – 16:00 Investment fair (free admission for Forum participants)

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Ukrainian
English

 

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