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IWP co-founded the coalition of the leading Ukrainian think tanks, united their efforts to create a single public instrument for monitoring the reform progress.An alliance of non-governmental organizations with a rich experience of analytical activity signed a Memorandum of Cooperation and created a Coalition for Social Index of Reforms for monitoring and informing on the course of implementation of reforms in Ukraine. Representatives of the civic sector made the announcement as part of the Ukraine Reforms Communications Taskforce project during the press briefing at Ukraine Crisis Media Center on June 25.

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Coalition members:
Institute of World Policy, Civic Platform “New Country”, Reanimation Reform Package, Centre for Political and Legal Reforms, VoxUkraine, International Centre for Policy Studies, Stronger Together information campaign, Center UA, CCC Creative Center, Institute of Media Rights, Ukrainian Association of Assessment, European Research Association, Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting.

Institute of World Policy has presented the results of the opinion poll on Ukraine’s European aspirations conducted in six largest EU countries such as Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Poland.To download the publication (in Ukrainian and English), please, click here.

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Alyona Getmanchuk, Director of the Institute of World Policy, presented the key findings of the opinion poll «What do the Europeans think about Ukraine?»
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Kurt MacLeod, Vice President, Pact Inc.
“For almost a decade now, Pact in Ukraine works with such enthusiastic Ukrainians who not only demand but take an active role in navigating the country towards a European Ukraine. Pact during these years have nurtured a new generation of civic activists who are the crème de la crème of their given profession and, on top of that, eager community organizers.

In particular, Pact works towards two broader themes of relevant policy areas important for Ukraine’s path towards democratic development, social cohesion and economic modernization. In partnerships, we support local solutions that results in the country’s rediscover of its European standards and values to ensure governmental accountability and root out corruption.

Having been privy to the publication’s main findings this morning, I can testify that today’s release of IWP’s polling results will offer an exciting look into both of these themes. Today’s occasion is even more critical than yet another problem statement on these issues because it provides a reality check to the country’s reformers on perceptions that Europeans have about Ukraine.

We are fortunate enough to have found genuine partnership with IWP in the past years. I am proud of this partnering relationship as it truly supports those local Ukrainian solutions that promise lasting results. Today’s poll-release will result in an elevated debate on Ukraine’s image in Europe, which in turn promises new forms of engagement with Western publics. I wish you good luck with today’s event and the follow-on plan of action that address IWP’s Europe-wide polling’s findings”.

Kurt MacLeod, Vice President, Pact Inc

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Felix Schimansky-Geier, Coordinator of the project “German and European Studies at the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla-Academy”, and Johann Zajaczkowski, Lecturer of the Robert-Bosch-Foundation and NaUKMA
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Andreas von Beckerath, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Sweden to Ukraine
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Bohdan Hawrylyshyn, economist and philanthropist
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Volodymyr Fesenko, Head of the Center for Applied Political Studies “Penta”
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Edmond Huet, French Military Expert
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The opinion poll was conducted by the TNS company on request of the Institute of World Policy within “New European Policy: Filling the Awareness Gap” project supported by “Ukraine National Initiatives to Enhance Reforms” (UNITER) project, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by the Pact in Ukraine.

Institute of World Policy and nine other institutional partners have jointly launched the project Whole of Society for Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding.Leonid Litra, Senior Research Fellow at the IWP, took part in the meeting of the WOSCAP consortium in the Hague on June 22, 2015.
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The project Whole of Society for Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding is aimed at providing a critical and constructive assessment to EU’s policy and tools of conflict prevention and peace-building.
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Aside from a framework research and scoping studies focused on clusters such as multi-track diplomacy, governance, etc, the project will focus on four study cases (Ukraine, Georgia, Mali and Yemen) to evaluate the EU’s efforts and propose policy options.

The project is led by GPPAC – Global Partnership for Prevention of Armed Conflicts (the Hague) – and in partnership with several other organisations such LSE, Berghoff Foundation, Utrecht University, etc.

The project will run 2.5 years, from mid-2015 until the end of 2017.
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Ukraine joined H2020 only in March 2015 but the IWP is already implementing a H2020 project.

Institute of World Policy together with other Ukrainian think tanks and independent experts prepared and published their proposals on the review of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) within the ongoing EU public consultations on the issue.Detailed proposals by Ukrainian experts on the practical strengthening of the ENP in the Eastern Partnership region are focused on the following six areas:

– Strengthening security on the European continent and the role of the EU in this task;
– Joint response to the Russian propaganda;
– Supporting the implementation of Association Agreements, including institutional capacity building;
– Economic integration and development, making use of the DCFTA potential;
– Strengthening energy security;
– Communication, mobility and contacts between people.

Development of proposals of Ukrainian expert community to review the European Neighbourhood Policy and the Eastern Partnership was initiated and coordinated by the European program initiative of the International Renaissance Foundation in close cooperation with the Ukrainian National Platform of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum and the Ukrainian side of the Civil Society Platform (newly formed institution under EU-Ukraine Association Agreement) and in consultation with the Government Office for the European Integration.

To read the proposals, please, click here.

Sergiy Solodkyy, First Deputy Director of the Institute of World Policy, took part in the working visit of Ukrainian experts to Budapest on June 18, 2015.During the visit Sergiy Solodkyy, Oleh Rybachuk, Chairman of the CentreUA, and Olena Prystayko, Executive Director of the Ukrainian Think Tanks Office in Brussels, spoke at the expert roundtable “SitRep Ukraine: Tanks, Treaties and Turmoil“, organized by the Hungarian Institute for Foreign Affairs together with the Embassy of the United States in Budapest.

Among the speakers of this high-level event were also E.Colleen Bell, Ambassador of the United States to Hungary, Levente Benkő, Political Director of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Dr. László Póti, Senior Research Fellow at the, Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Miriam Lexmann, Director of EU Offices at the International Republican Institute.
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The expert roundtable was followed by the closed-door meetings with the officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, experts from National University of Public Service, International Centre for Democratic Transition and briefings with journalists.
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The visit was organized by Ukrainian Think Tanks Liaison Office in Brussels in cooperation with the Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade (Budapest), International Republican Institute (Brussels) and with support of the USA Mission to the EU and the International Renaissance Foundation.{3}

Institute of World Policy organized the final session of the Strategic Discussion Club on June 17, 2015. The topic was “Ukraine-NATO: Diagnosing the Partnership”.The public debate on Ukraine’s security brought together prominent Ukrainian and European security experts, Ukrainian government representatives, diplomats of EU Member States and NATO.
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Viktor Shlinchak, Chair of the Board of the Institute of World Policy, and Øystein Bø, State Secretary of the Norwegian Ministry of Defence
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Jon Elvedal Fredriksen, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Norway to Ukraine
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Igor Dolhov, Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine on European integration issues, and Marcin Koziel, Director of the NATO Liaison Office in Ukraine

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Alyona Getmanchuk, Director of the Institute of World Policy, presented the results of regional public debates “The EU, NATO…What will Ensure Ukraine’s Security?”, which were held in 6 cities in Eastern and Southern Ukraine.
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The participants got a unique opportunity to hear the opinions and recommendations of the experts from Kharkiv, Odesa, Zaporizhzhya, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, and Mykolaiv how to strengthen national security of Ukraine.
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Serhiy Sydorenko, chief in editor of the European Truth (moderator), James Sherr, Associate Fellow at the Chatham House, and Volodymyr Ohryzko, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (2007-2009)
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Iulian Chifu, President of the Conflict Prevention and Early Warning Centre (Romania)
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Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Canada in Ukraine Roman Vashchuk
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Bjorn-Olav Knutsen, Principal scientist at the Norwegian Defense Research Establishmen, and Mykola Sunhurovskyi, Director of military programmes at Razumkov Center
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Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Moldova to Ukraine Ion Stavile
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Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Finland to Ukraine Arja Makkonen

Furthermore, the IWP has presented an analytical paper “Ukraine-NATO: Diagnosing the Partnership” – result of joint efforts of the international and Ukrainian security experts.
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James Sherr, member of the IWP’s Supervisory Board, and Leonid Litra, Senior Research Fellow at the IWP

Strategic Discussion Club Project is conducted with the support of the Embassy of Norway in Ukraine and in partnership with the NATO Liaison Office in Ukraine.