Promote Ukraine Non profit organisation Non governmental organisation.

Promote Ukraine

Non profit organisationNon governmental

organisation

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Structure

• About us - organisation, goals, events

• Ukraine: Reforms over the last year

• What Promote Ukraine can offer

• Interesting companies from Ukraine on the fair

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• Promote Ukraine was founded in Brussels

• Affiliation with the Ukrainian embassy, registered in EU Transparency Register

• Different scopes – culture, society, toursim, media...

• ...and now – BUSINESS TO BUSINESS

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About usPROMOTING

civil society of Ukraine worldwide

CONNECTING Ukrainians with Friends of Ukraine

SHARING information and donations to Ukraine

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Ukraine: Reforms over the last year

Deregulation and business protection: • Ukraine’s ranking in the Doing Business report

improved 16 points (from 112 to 96);• Introduced an office of Business Ombudsman and

appointed former EU Commissioner Algirdas Semeta to the post.

Financial stability:• Agreed to a new $17.5 billion loan program with the IMF plus $7.5 billion from other international partners.

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European integration• Signed and ratified the association agreement with the EU. DCFTA is coming into force in 2016; • The EU unilaterally abolished all customs and export duties for

Ukrainian exporters;• Changes in technical standards from the Soviet to the EU system.

Ukraine: Reforms over the last year

Good Governance and Anticorruption: • Adopted a package of anti-corruption laws and established a National Anti-Corruption Bureau

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Sectors of interest in Ukraine– IT Sectors– Agriculture– Manufacturing – Tourism– Real Estate

• High skilled professionals for 300 – 400 euro/month

• Land resources and proximity to the EU

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What PU can offer• Contact point for assessing a partner in Ukraine• Trustworthy partner for visit, administrative

assistance, legal documents or translations• B2B-hub in searching for a trustworthy partner in a

certain sector or market

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Interesting companies from Ukraine on the fair

• MADE ME

• VERNA

• TREMBITA

• MORENKO RESEARCH CENTRE

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MADE ME

• Mademe - team of young graphic designers based in Lviv

• Graphic design: logo or flyer, business card or t-shirt designs

• Graphic design cross-border activity

• Industrial design, constantly expanding range of services in different directions: – package design, illustration, diverse printing and promotional products,

corporate branding and information design.

• Portfolio on mademe.eu5 June 2015

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VERNA

• Ukrainian IT Integrator - Outsourcing IT Services

• Improving efficiency of corporate information systems

• Help maintain smooth operations within your technology ecosystem

• Key competence lies in configuring, optimizing and maintaining IT infrastructure of large geographically distributed enterprises

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TREMBITA• 60-yeared experience of acoustic guitars production

• Synonym of high quality in the music industry

• The range of products has been extending– New types of guitars has been designed and produced by the enterprise designers– electric guitars production chain has been introduced.

• Besides guitars production Trembita is the only one Ukrainian company which produces folk musical instruments– national instrument - bandura. Banduras of Kyiv or Kharkiv type are produced

with keys, also we produce banduras for adolescent. – folk instruments, namely six-stringed kobza “Prima”, kobza “Al’t”, domra,

Russian national instrument balalaika, Greek instrument buzuki.

• http://trembita-guitars.com/index

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Morenko Research Center

• Research center for innovative products based in Kiev

• Phd students and researchers

• Research in bio-technology, IT and chemistry

Latest innovation• “The Crystal Spring” – device

production of fresh melt water

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UNPLAG

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Thank you for your attention

Any questions?

Please contact us:Promote Ukraine – non profit organisation

Enr. 0552.564.062Adress: Veldstraat 24, 1731 [email protected]

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