The meeting brought together more than 50 participants, including graduates of the educational programs “Public Administration”, “Municipal Management”, scientific and pedagogical workers of SUTE, as well as representatives of the Vinnytsia Trade and Economic Institute of SUTE, Dmytro Motornyi Tavria State Agrotechnological University, the West Ukrainian National University.

The speaker shared with the participants of the event valuable knowledge and insights about how interaction between communities can contribute to overall development, effective work and implementation of joint projects:

1. Cooperation of territorial communities in Ukraine is based on the Law of Ukraine “On Cooperation of Territorial Communities” adopted in 2014.

2. Areas of cooperation can be economic development, social sphere, infrastructure, ecology, digitization, management of common resources, etc.

3. The principles of cooperation of territorial communities are free expression of will, equality, mutual respect, openness and transparency, efficiency.

4. Cooperation mechanisms of territorial communities are as follows: joint planning, financing, use of resources and exchange of experience.

5. The advantages of the cooperation of territorial communities are the effective use of resources, improvement of the quality of services, stimulation of economic development and attraction of investments, strengthening of democracy and local self-government.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this discussion, and especially to our guest for covering an important topic! Let this lecture be just the beginning of our joint path to building even stronger, harmonious cooperation between our universities and communities!

Yuliia Holovnia

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Public Administration