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26th of March, 2010 – Õ International Scientific Congress “Public Administration and Local Government” is taking place.
NEWS

On March 3-10, 2010 a delegation of our old partners and friends from a University City Marburg, Germany, headed by a leader of the public organization “Drushba Serdehz – Active International”, Mr Manfred Hellmann, paid an annual visit to KRI NAPA. The main goal of the visit is traditionally to interview the candidates for the internship in local government bodies of Marburg which is to take place in April-May, 2010. At the interview our German guests admitted a high language and professional level of master student and postgraduates who are the candidates for the internship. There have been decided that the main emphasis of the internship will be made on the social sphere as almost all the candidates` interest is connected with social issues. According to the head of public organization, Manfred Hellmann, the programme of the internship will include visits to Marburg City Hall, University of Marburg, Police Department and Marburg Castle.

EU-funded twinning project announces a call for participation in the comprehensive train-the-trainers programme in the field of civil servants' in-service training.
This activity aims at enhancing the training capacity of the National Academy of Public Administration, the Regional Institutes of Public Administration and other civil servants training institutions.

On February 26, 2010 a solemnity devoted to the graduation of masters of public administration took place in the Institute.
In the afternoon the representatives of Kharkiv, Lugansk, Poltava and Sumy associations presented the graduates with master diplomas. In the Institute Hall there have been hold a solemn meeting where the master students were presented with their diplomas with distinction by government officials of North-East region of Ukraine.
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On February 23-25, 2010 an expert of the Twinning project, Dominique Dalmas (France), visited KRI NAPA. According to the programme of visit the expert met with some members of the work group on realization of Component 2 of the Twinning project “Strengthening of organization and administration of NAPA and the regional institutes with a focus on the in-service training Institutes` ability to train high-level public servants”.
This Component includes functional and SWOT-analysis of the Institute activity, communication and marketing plans.

In February - June, 2010 a U.S. Fulbright Scholar, Doctor Linda-Marie SUNDSTROM, a lecturer of California State University – Long Beach, Graduate Center for Public Policy and Administration, the USA, will teach a course on Effective Public Program Design to students of Department of Social and Economic Administration and graduate students of the MPA Department of KRI NAPA in accordance with Fulbright Scholar Program terms. This course will present elements of effective program design and evaluation for government agencies and charitable organizations. Students will identify a community need, design effective activities and timelines to address the need, identify staffing needs and develop a detailed program budget, develop a formative and summative program evaluation plan. The structure of the course is adapted to an adult audience: the lecturer offers theories and conceptions thereafter there will be discussions in small groups which allow the students to correlate the conceptions with real-life situations.

On November 28 at 15.00 a wreath-laying ceremony to the memorable place – a cross to the victims of Holodomor - has been held in the Youth Park of Kharkiv. After the ceremony the employees of the Institute had a sorrowful walk from the Youth Park to the Freedom Square for taking part in a nationwide action “Light a Candle!” (A Freedom Square as an epicenter of the communist totalitarian regime`s organization of the genocide of the Ukrainian people. Here on the place of the present Oblast State Administration building there was a building of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine from where the Party directives got their start. In the present State Industry building there were People`s Commissariats of the USSR which brought the evil Parties` plans into action).
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November 25, 2009. The exhibit “Holodomor 1932-1933. The tragedy of the Ukrainian people” has been opened in KRI NAPA. The authorities of the Institute express their gratitude to the League of Ukrainian Canadians for the given material for the exhibit. Canadian colleagues in cooperation with Museum of Soviet Occupation of the Kyiv Memorial Society in Ukraine gave us a great opportunity to get acquainted with the document materials and eyewitnesses accounts of the tragedy of the Ukrainian people.
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On November 25, 2009, Scientific and Practical Conference “Memory Pages: Tragedy of the Ukrainian People in 1932-1933” have been held. Scholars, educators from higher educational establishments, people`s deputies of Ukraine, public servants and local government officials, witnesses of the events of 1932-1933, workers of archives and historical establishments, doctoral students, postgraduates, seekers of scientific degrees, mass media representatives, and other interested people have been invited to visit the Conference.
In the framework of the Conference documentaries have been presented, sizing up of the broadsheets, literature and art works competition devoted to the events of 1932-1933 have been done.
The working languages of the Conference - Ukrainian and English.
The Conference program has included a plenary session and working groups.
The collected texts of speeches “The Holodomor Tragedy in Ukraine in 1932-1933 is in the National Memory” are to be published after the Conference.
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Dr. Dziundziuk, Head of Department of Political Science and Philosophy, PhD in Public Administration, has recently come back from Germany, the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, where he was invited as a Visiting research Scholar to conduct his research project was “The Impact of the Information Revolution on National Security: Opportunities and Threats” in the period of 1 Oct 2009-5 Nov 2009. Dr. Dziundziuk presented his research project in front of celebrated European scholars. The topic of cyber crimes and creation of virtual communities attracted interest of the scholars working in the sphere of European Security. Dr. Dziundziuk was awarded with a certificate for a great participation in the Marshall Center Scholars Program (MCSP).

On November 22, 2009 a joint delegation of our Institute and the direction of NAPA returned from TAA, PRC, after one-week visit. This visit can be regarded as a very successful one, and among its main results the following are to be mentioned:
- gaining of 2 certificates for lectures given by the educators of KRI NAPA Lunyachek V.E. and Homulenko T.B. Research area of the lectures attracted interest and a lot of questions of the Chinese audience – “Issues of the Bologna Process in Ukraine” and “Modern image of the civil servant”;
- signing a protocol about the intentions of NAPA and National Administrative Academy in Peking that can lead to a long-term fruitful collaboration between the establishments which train civil servants of our two countries.
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Bulba V.G., Head of Department of Social and Humanitarian Policy, Dean of the Master Training Faculty, in a period of October 21 – November 11, 2009 participated in the USA Congress program “The Open World”.
In the framework of the visit to the USA Bulba V.G. took part in the conference “Ukraine – the USA – Canada: perspectives of collaboration”, got acquainted with a system of federal and municipal administration in the USA, studied the peculiarities of the local communities administration in particular states. An important part of the program was the visit to Cincinnati, Ohio, and getting acquainted with the work of municipal social services.
Planning of a common project has become a result of the visit. The aim of the project is exchanging the pupils of the secondary school in Wyoming and the first-year students of our Institute in order to improve their language skills, establish relations and find new friends. Also, the representatives of the program “The Open World ” have expressed the willingness their. The delegation from Cincinnati may visit Kharkiv in March, and delegation of our Institute may participate in the program “The Open World” in May.
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The 12th of November, 2009 at 14:50 – Regular session of the Institute Council of Experts will tale place in the Specialized Academic Council Room.

The 9th of November, 2009 – an electronic copy of the regular edition of the collected scientific papers “Actual Problems of Public Administration” (¹ 2(36) / 2009) has been published
On the 23rd of October, 2009 some students of KRI NAPA visited the boarding house for elderly people situated on 7, Tinyakova str. where gave a concert and made some presents to the veterans.
On the 23rd of October, 2009 the delegation of the Institute headed by the Director Govorukha V.V. took part in the meeting of the President of Ukraine Victor Yuschenko with the representatives of the Slobozhanschina intelligentsia.
16-18th of October, 2009 the counter visit of master students of the public administration faculty of Odesa regional institute of Public Administration. Our student visit Odesa on 11-13th of September.
At the first day of the visit the smaster students met with the Director of the Institute Govorukha V.V. The Head of Centre for Academic Infractructure and International Affairs acquainted the visitors with the Institute history and ways of activity and made an excursion around the academic campus.
The following days the visitors met with the Dean of the Master faculty Bulba V.G. as well as with the student government where they exchanged the experience about the student councils’ activity.

9th of October, 2009 at 10 a.m. the Institute hold a round table “The rights and freedoms of man and citizen: new constitutional dimension” . About 80 persons were took part in it among whom are scientists, professors, specialists in thefields of constitutional law, post-graduate students, master students, representatives of the Kharkiv regional public administration.
From 7 till 10th of October, 2009 Deputy Director of Research Activity Korzhenko V.V. and a professor of Public Administration Informatization Department Mashkarov Yu.G. tool part in scientific and practice conference “The ways of facilitation of the impact of science field “Public Administration” on reformation of the civil service and public administration in Ukraine” and in the framework of the conference they made reports on the issues of improvement of the higher schools staff attestation process and implementation of the technologies of distant learning.
5th of October, 2009 Zagrebelna L.C. hold an away class with the 4 year students to the State archive of Kharkiv region where they had an opportunity to find out a lot of information about the archive activity.

2th of October, 2009 on the basis of National law academy named after Yaroslav Mudryi the interregional municipal hearings “Constitutional principles of local authorities` organization” have been carried out. Heads of bodies of power, official of local government bodies, outstanding scientists from Donetsk, Lugansk, Poltava, Sumy and Kharkiv regions participated it the hearings. A professor of Regional administration and Local Government Department, Mamonova V.V., made a report devoted to the constitutional novelization in local government.
2th of October, 2009 there has been hold a round table “European integrational processe: an experience for Ukraine”. Among the participants there were master students of full and correspondent form of education. The round table was organized by the European and Euroatlantic Integration and National Security Department. The discussion was devoted to the following issues: actual problems of cooperation between Ukraine and EU, modern tendencies in the process of entering to the European administrative space and others. The discussion was sum up with the resolution.
1th of October, 2009 on the initiative of Dean of the Master faculty a pasture land was organized around the hostel ¹2. The action united the students with the teaching staff of the Institute. It was interesting and funny.
On September 22-23, 2009 an expert of the EU Project Support to Implementation of Partnership and Cooperation Agreement Mrs Denis Colonna d’Istria-Owen visits Kharkiv Regional Institute of Public Administration of National Academy of Public Administration attached to the Office of the President of Ukraine. In the framework of the visit the following scientific and communicative events have been planned:
- September 22, 2009 (10.00-13.10, room ¹ 10) master-class “Monitoring and Evaluation as Elements of Project Cycle Management”;
- September 23, 2009 (13.10 – 14.40, room ¹ 1) an open lecture “Conceptual Basis of Project Cycle Management in Public Administration System” for master-students on specialty “Public Administration”.
Everybody is invited to take part in the scientific and communicative events.
Seminars on training programmes

All are invited to take part in 1,3,5 day trainings on European integration problems for employees, economists, officials. The trainings are held by certified in Europe professors of European and Euroatlantic Integration Department.
Detailed information is available on the site http://www.euroint.in.ua/
Tel.: +38 (057) 732-24-02
Å-mail: dist@kbuapa.kharkov.ua

Kharkiv regional institute of public administration of NAPA attached to the President of Ukraine conducts training programmes for specialists “Legal and practical aspects of state purchases in Ukraine” according to the gained license.
Study term – 4 days. Cost for one person – 750 UAH.
The participants will get an educational and methodological reference book “State purchases for Ukraine” and at the end of the programme – a certificate on holding the training programme.
The detailed information about the conditions and terms of the programme you can find out by the Tel/Fax +38 (057) 732-24-02.
E-mail: fppkk@kbuapa.kharkov.ua
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