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On March 16-17, the Institute of World Policy organized a study visit to Kyiv for two experts from France and Greece. At the meetings with the Ukrainian thoughts leaders they told about the perception of Ukraine and how to conduct an awareness campaign in the EU member states.Participants of the visit:

Marie Mendras, Senior Fellow, Transatlantic Academy, German Marshall Fund (Washington, D.C), Professor at the Paris School of International Affairs

Ioannis Karras, Assistant Professor of History Freiburg University, Visiting Lecturer International Hellenic University Thessaloniki

European experts met with the Ukrainian officials, experts, journalists and civil society activists.

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Meeting with the representatives of the International Renaissance Foundation Taras Kachka, Deputy Executive Director, Dmytro Shulga, European Program Initiative Director, Olga Kvashuk, European Program Initiative Project Coordinator.

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Meeting in the Presidential Administration with Ihor Zhovkva, Head of the Main Department for Foreign and European Integration of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine.
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Meeting with the activists of Ukrainian NGOs, assisting displaced persons and affected communities.
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Meeting with Oleksandr Lytvynenko, Deputy Secretary, National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.
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Meeting with the representatives of the Reanimation Package of Reforms Taras Shevchenko, Olena Halushka, and Vadim Miskyi.

During the two-day visit Marie Mendras and Yiannis Karras also met with Tetiana Popova, Deputy Minister, Information Policy of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s Ambassador-At-Large, Veronika Movchan, Head of the Center for Economic Studies, Serhiy Sydorenko, Editor-in-Chief “Evropeiska Pravda”, Tetyana Ogarkova, TV-host “hromadske.tv”, and Mykola Siruk, Head of International Section of Day Newspaper .

On February 18, the Institute of World Policy held a Media Club European Unity and Ukraine. Views from France and Greece” with Marie Mendras and Ioannis Karras.
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On February 8-9, the Institute of World Policy organized the first study visit for experts from Germany and Spain.
The visits were organized within the project “Study Visits of Foreign Experts to Kyiv to Dispel the Myths about Ukraine in the European Union.”

This initiative is conducted within the “Initiative for Development of Ukrainian Think Tanks” project, implemented by International Renaissance Foundation (IRF) in cooperation with the Think Tank Fund (TTF), with the financial support of the Embassy of Sweden in Ukraine (SIDA).