WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

At 1000, Ameliorative forum "Comprehensive reform in the sector of hydrotechnical melioration of Ukraine" to start online with the participation of the leadership of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the State Fisheries Agency, the State Water Resources Agency, water management organizations, MPs of Ukraine, the USAID AGRO Program, the World Bank, and representatives of the agricultural business. Within the forum, a roundtable of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Agrarian and Land Policy will be held to discuss legislative initiatives in the field of hydrotechnical reclamation and the implementation of its reform. The participants will discuss why the reform of hydrotechnical reclamation is important for ensuring Ukraine’s food security in the face of climate change and Russia’s military aggression. In addition, those present will be able to take part in the practical webinar "Creating water user organizations," where experts will provide practical cases on the introduction of a new organizational and legal form of association of farmers sharing reclamation networks. Media accreditation for the event is required until September 27 in the form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfhj1fI0s5-Z9pqX-Xu9TpVZAoiz6x98Sv1aMpUPH2lPARY2g/viewform. After registration, media representatives will receive confirmation of participation and details. Registration of online participants at the link: https://cutt.ly/dCoLQIy. Details at: https://minagro.gov.ua/events/forum-kompleksna-reforma-v-sektori-gidrotehnichnoyi-melioraciyi-ukrayini.

At 1400, the presentation of the Wooden Houses Cluster association, a press conference and the opening of the Budmall exhibition construction site with ready-made "turnkey" modular houses for IDPs will start. Solutions for the rapid restoration of destroyed houses will be presented. Wooden Houses Cluster has brought together Ukrainian wooden house manufacturers, architects, scientists and industry experts for innovative, financial and sustainable development. Press conference speakers are founder and CEO of Advanter Group, member of the boards of directors of the Digital Transformation Institute and SingularityU Kyiv, CEO of the international troubleshooting agency Luniter in Central and Eastern Europe Andriy Dligach; Member of the Board of Founders of Amway, Ph.D. in Economics, Vice President of the Ukrainian National Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce, Senior Vice President of the National Tourism Organization of Ukraine, founder of the Budmall Center Taras Demkura; First Deputy Minister of Economy of Ukraine Denys Kudin. Representatives of the President’s Office, the Cabinet of Ministers and the Verkhovna Rada, representatives of local authorities, international partners of Ukraine, manufacturers of modular wooden houses, members of the Coalition of Business Communities for the Modernization of Ukraine, charitable entrepreneurs (Agromat, 4 Akademika Bulakhovskoho Street) are invited to participate. Registration at: https://cutt.ly/uC4FkJJ.

At 1700, the international online conference "The War of Russia against Ukraine – the war of ideologies and cultures" will start. Organizer: Holocaust Memorial Center "Babyn Yar" with the support of the President’s Office of Ukraine and together with the "House of European History," the European Parliament (Brussels), Yahad – In Unum. Speakers are Member of the European Parliament, Head of the EP Working Group Michael Gahler; (Seim of the Republic of Poland) Marek Rutka; founder and president of Yahad – In Unum, head of the Academic Council of Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center Father Patrick Debois; former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, Prof. Adam Daniel Rotfeld; representative of the President’s Office of Ukraine (to be confirmed); Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Memorial Center Natan Szaranski; President of Poland (1995-2005), member of the Supervisory Board of the Memorial Center Aleksander Kwaśniewski (to be confirmed). We invite you to join the conference and learn together how to stop the destruction of Ukrainian culture by Russian invaders. To receive a link to the broadcast on the eve of the conference, please fill out a short registration form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf9J4py7dFBwiNjFickt-xso9slAqMScpy6Y36rruQPytsH3g/viewform. The event will be held in English and Ukrainian (translation will be provided).

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