Meeting with a Delegation from Estonia: Working Together for the Development of Kyiv Region

A business meeting with a delegation from Estonia took place at the Kyiv Regional State Administration, organised by the Kyiv Regional Development Agency together with the Department of Economic and Social Geography of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

This event was an important step towards deepening international cooperation, seeking new opportunities and building effective partnerships. During the meeting, the following were discussed:

• prospects for comprehensive research into the potential of Kyiv Oblast;
• establishing partnership relations with sister cities in Estonia;
• the challenges facing Kyiv region communities, and ways to address them through reconstruction and sustainable development.

We sincerely thank our Estonian partners who visited us:

• Raili Nugin — senior researcher at Tallinn University
• Hannes Palang — professor of human geography at Tallinn University;
• Mart Reimann — researcher at Tallinn University.

Representatives of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration also actively took part — Mykyta Herashchenko, head of the international cooperation department, Iryna Tofanivska, deputy director of the Economy Department of the Kyiv Regional State Administration, and staff of the Faculty of Geography of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv: dean Serhii Zapototskyi, deputy dean Oleh Hryniuk and department head Serhii Uliganets.

International cooperation has always been and remains an important factor for the region’s development. We thank all participants for their openness, constructive dialogue and desire to move forward together! We are confident that this is only the beginning of a new success story.