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IT Ukraine and  Promprylad.Renovation signed the Strategic Partnership Memorandum. The main goal of a long-term cooperation is to promote the interests of Ukrainian IT business, its positive image and investment attractiveness at the national and international level, as well as the development of regional IT potential.

 

«Due to known reasons, the IT landscape of Ukraine is changing, new IT hubs are emerging, and we face a mass relocation of specialists. We acknowledge the importance of launching at this stage a necessary infrastructure and creative spaces for IT business in secure western regions of the country. This will preserve and strengthen the potential of the national IT industry. We are convinced that the innovative space of Promprylad.Renovation has every chance to become one of such hubs», – emphasized the Executive director of the Association Konstantin Vasyuk.

 

The partners will join their efforts to encourage the development of infrastructure and IT capabilities of Ukraine and Ivano-Frankivsk region for a rapid reconstruction of our country, digitalization of the Ukrainian nation and emerging of a new high-tech economy.

 

«The economic front is one of the most important in the war. The IT industry, in turn, is among the key elements of the national economy. Being in the west we have become a rear for the whole country in our common fight for Ukraine. Therefore, we are now joining forces with the Association “IT Ukraine” in order to create maximum support for the industry and open new opportunities for development even at this time», – comments on the start of a strategic partnership CEO Promprylad. Renovation Yuriy Fylyuk.

 

The joint strategy for the development of the IT industry envisages a variety of public events, research on the IT industry in Ukraine, educational and scientific projects aimed at training IT professionals, as well as mutual support in the media and cyberspace.

 

IT Ukraine is the largest community of IT companies, accounting for 50% of all IT revenues in Ukraine and uniting 27% of Ukrainian IT professionals. The association unites the interests of business, the state, and international partners for the development of the IT industry in Ukraine. Together with participating companies, IT clusters, and partners, it protects the interests of business and promotes the brand of Ukraine as a leading technological nation.

Save Business Now platform was created jointly with Ivano-Frankivsk City Council, Ivano-Frankivsk Civil-Military Administration, and Innovation Center Promprylad.Renovation to help entrepreneurs who are forced to relocate their businesses to Ivano-Frankivsk and the region due to the war. 

 

The project’s primary goal is to help Ukrainian companies relocate their business to Ivano-Frankivsk and the region, provide comprehensive information on financial and other support, and reinforce economic processes in non-combat areas.

 

By joining forces, the partners created a shared, synchronized base to streamline all requests and opportunities, simplifying the business relocation processes.

 

“We urge entrepreneurs from Ivano-Frankivsk and the region, owners who have vacant space, land, office or warehouse premises, and are ready to lease them, to allow other businesses to join. Contact Save Business Now. The project coordinates the efforts of many institutions that help with business relocation in a most effective way “, said Ivan Fufalko, project coordinator of Save Business Now. 

 

Within the framework of the business relocation program, more than 60 Ukrainian companies have already been relocated to western. This figure is increasing daily. Now, we do need the support of local businesses to create new avenues for those entrepreneurs who lost the opportunity to work in their cities due to the war.

 

Contacts:

096 4958780

 

support@savebusinessnow.if.ua
https://www.facebook.com/SaveBusinessNow
https://www.savebusinessnow.if.ua/ 

 

Donate to save Ukraine! #SaveUkraineNow – support Ukrainian business, that jointly with the Ukrainian military is working for the victory of Ukraine!

Fighting Russian invaders requires resources. Many fundraising initiatives are being created on various fronts. Ukraine receives assistance from abroad and from its citizens. The country needs money to provide for our defenders and the civilians that have already suffered from the war.

We are appealing on behalf of the initiative, the #SaveUkraineNow Coordination Center, which brings together Ukrainian businessmen, civic activists, Territorial Defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Ivano-Frankivsk city government managers. We need money to provide humanitarian aid to the occupied cities of eastern and southern Ukraine – Sumy, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, as well as protective equipment, territorial defense and the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

In order to collect, analyze and redirect aid to Ukrainians in the war zone – defense products, medicines, food, hygiene items, we have created a synchronized database. So we concentrated on all the requests, opportunities, and simplified the mechanism of the supply chain.

We want the assistance that our defenders and internally displaced persons need to be as accessible and timely as possible.

Everyone who is ready to stand with us in our struggle for peace in Ukraine can support #SaveUkraineNow at: https://secure.wayforpay.com/payment/saveukrainenow

 

Donate to save Ukraine – https://www.saveukrainenow.if.ua/

 

Together we win! 

The Promprylad.Renovation team is pleased to introduce a new member of the project’s Supervisory Board – Jaroslawa Johnson, President and CEO of Western NIS Enterprise Fund, which invests in the economic development of Ukraine and Moldova. Ms. Johnson has been WNISEF President and CEO since 2015. Having US citizenship and living there for most of her life, Jaroslawa returned to Ukraine to strengthen it economically and raise a new generation of leaders.

Jaroslawa Zelinsky-Johnson is a corporate law specialist who has helped many international corporations start businesses here as well as invest in local businesses since Ukraine’s independence. Among Jaroslawa’s clients are Monsanto, Kraft Foods, McDonald’s, ITNT, Credit Agricole, Wizz Air Group, EBRD and IFC; these are companies and organizations that have contributed to unlocking Ukraine’s potential for foreign investors and remain significant players in the economic field of Ukraine.

‘Promprylad.Renovation is a large-scale project. It showcases how the old abandoned building can be used to create a community development center, bringing together not only local businesses, arts, education, but also the city’s investment department. It showcases the success of the synergy between government, business, and active citizens time and time again. There are many similar industrial buildings in Ukraine, and Ivano-Frankivsk has become an example of how they can be revitalized for the sake of community development,’ says Jaroslawa Johnson, President and CEO of Western NIS Enterprise Fund.

 

As you may recall, Roman Waschuk – Canadian diplomat of Ukrainian origin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Canada to Ukraine (2014-2019) – joined the project’s Supervisory Board in 2021. And in January 2022, the Cabinet of Ministers approved the decision of the Supervisory Board of the Business Ombudsman Council to appoint Roman Waschuk as the new business ombudsman in Ukraine. Congratulations to Mr. Waschuk in his new position. We are grateful for his professional assistance in the development of Promprylad.Renovation. Now Jaroslawa Johnson steps into his shoes and continues the honorable tradition of international expertise in the project.

 

The Ukrainian Red Cross Society and Promprylad.Renovation have signed a memorandum of cooperation. According to the memorandum, the Ukrainian Red Cross Society will open the Center for Public Health and Climate Change Monitoring in the Carpathian Region on the premises of Promprylad.Renovation.

 

Environmental crises, frequent and large-scale natural disasters, their impact on public health are some of the key problems of today. These problems affect everyone, and therefore, we can we avoid dangers to ourselves and our planet only by working together. Since 2007, adaptation to climate change has been one of the areas of operation for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

 

‘It is important for us that the country’s population pays attention to climate issues, because change begins with ourselves. Our activities in the environmental field began with the support of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. We are now happy to meet partners on our path who share our values and are ready to overcome large-scale social problems with us,’ said Maksym Dotsenko, executive director of the National Committee of the Ukrainian Red Cross Society.

 

With support from Promprylad.Renovation, the following objects will be launched on the Center’s premises: First Aid School of the Ukrainian Red Cross Society, first aid room, massage room, conference room, and shop of the Society. All funds received from the Center’s activities will be redirected directly to the development of the Center for Public Health and Climate Change Monitoring.

 

 

 

Aside from that, the Ukrainian Red Cross Society will become one of the investors of the Promprylad.Renovation project. Later, the organization plans to invest the funds received in the form of dividends from the investment in the development of the Center for Public Health and Climate Change Monitoring. 

 

‘The Ukrainian Red Cross Society and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement are unique. This cooperation is very valuable to us. We are inspired by the fact that cooperation with us stimulated the organization to search for new models of development, in particular, the creation of a social enterprise with high added value for society and the search for a sustainable form of operation. This is unique not only for Ukraine. We hope that this project will become a global example to follow,’ says Yuriy Fylyuk, the CEO of Promprylad.Renovation.

 

The Ukrainian Red Cross Society is the largest humanitarian organization in Ukraine, which has focused its efforts on protecting the life, health and dignity of people for more than 103 years. The Ukrainian Red Cross Society includes 24 regional and more than 200 district organizations, which engage about 3,000 volunteers.

Beetroot IT company will become one of the Promprylad.Renovation residents and will promote the development of the innovation center’s ecosystem.

«Wherever Beetroot enters a market, the core of our mission is to contribute to growing a healthy and impactful Ecosystem. When we entered Ivano Frankivsk with Beetroot Academy in 2017 Promprylad was at an early stage, just like us, but we immediately felt that we are on a similar route with shared values and an extremely aligned mission. We kept in close contact over the years. In 2020, Beetroot Academy went into a partnership for developing education for new professions together with Promprylad, and we are now more than excited to also move in with our Beetroot Tech crew. It feels like home, and together with Promprylad and other players we can make a real difference for the future of Ivano Frankivsk, actually already today», says Andreas Flodström, founder and CEO of Beetroot.

‘We have been friends with Beetroot for a long time. Once we met the founders of the company, we immediately felt that we were on the same page. We appreciate the Swedish roots of the company as well as the valuable openness to interaction and active social position,’ commented Yuriy Fylyuk, CEO of Promprylad.Renovation. 

«We are already working with Beetroot Academy. And we are preparing the School of New Jobs at Promprylad.Renovation together. We are glad that Beetroot will be with us now, and that one of the company’s largest offices will operate in the Promprylad ecosystem».

Beetroot ecosystem includes not only the IT business of the same name, but also the Beetroot Academy and the Beetroot Hub. The Academy was the first to appear in Ivano-Frankivsk: it offered local students professional training in 2017. By now Beetroot Academy has trained more than 300 specialists in various fields.

In 2018, Beetroot IT company has already begun working with Frankivsk specialists and involving them in international projects. Beetroot’s local team of developers, designers and other specialists currently includes 60 consultants. By the end of 2022, the company plans to attract about 100 more specialists from Ivano-Frankivsk to IT projects and open its own office in Promprylad.Renovation, which was made possible by signing a partnership agreement. IT specialists will be housed in the building on Andrii Melnyk Street.

Beetroot is a cozy Swedish-Ukrainian IT business with 600+ specialists in nine cities of Ukraine and Sweden involved in turnkey development and creating dedicated teams for customers from around the world. It was founded in 2012 as a diploma project by two graduates of Chalmers University of Technology and young entrepreneurs Andreas Flodström and Gustav Henman.

 

 

 

The leader of the Ukrainian IT market EPAM Ukraine has recently announced the opening of an office in Ivano-Frankivsk. The company already cooperates with 60 specialists from the city. By the end of 2022, EPAM plans to step up the cooperation and open a full-fledged office in Promprylad.Renovation. A partnership agreement is currently in place. The future office of the IT company will be located in the building on Andriia Melnyka Street. 

 

“EPAM views Ivano-Frankivsk as a powerful community of talented IT professionals. Promprylad.Renovation is an innovation center with an abundance of creative people who stand for the same values our company does. It is a nursery of socially useful projects that will help the city remain competitive for many years to come. Partnership with Promprylad.Renovation is another step towards joint development of talents, the city and its infrastructure,”  –  says Serhii Rozhok, EPAM’s Executive Director.  

 

“Promprylad.Renovation is a project that connects the region with the global world. In addition to local partners, we find establishing cooperation with global and international companies very important. EPAM is undoubtedly one of these companies. For us, the value congruence with EPAM as well as the company’s openness and readiness to interact with other functions and elements of the Promprylad.Renovation ecosystem are important. The same goes for creation of a synergetic effect that will strengthen both the company itself and other residents of Promprylad,” — says the CEO of Promprylad.Renovation Yuriy Fylyuk.

 

EPAM Ukraine is the largest IT company in Ukraine collaborating with more than 11,000 specialists. EPAM helps world leaders design, develop and implement software. The company’s offices are located in nine cities of Ukraine. By the end of 2022, the company plans to attract about 300 specialists from Ivano-Frankivsk to cooperate on IT projects. 

It is worth reminding that Ivano-Frankivsk is #1 city in the Ukrainian DOU rating. In the DOU survey, most IT professionals recognised it as an attractive city to live and work in. On the one hand, it is located in the proximity to the Carpathian resorts; and on the other hand, the opportunity to cooperate remotely gives Ivano-Frankivsk a real chance to remain a leader in this ranking. And the presence of companies like EPAM strengthens this position in the rankings. 

 

We are glad that EPAM Ukraine will be based on Promprylad.Renovation and will strengthen the ecosystem of the innovation center. 

Finalists Announced for 2021 ULI Europe Awards for Excellence

 

• ULI Europe Awards for Excellence recognise outstanding urban development projects in the private, public and non-profit sectors, located in the EMEA countries.
• Jury members, consisting a diverse group of real estate leaders from across Europe and different professions, have shortlisted ten projects from across the region including Belgium, Germany, Greece, Poland, Portugal, Ukraine and the United Kingdom.
• Finalists include mixed-use projects as well as office and residential.

LONDON (18 May 2021) – The Urban Land Institute (ULI) has announced ten finalists in the 2021 ULI Europe Awards for Excellence for projects that exemplify best land use practice from across the EMEA region. Overall winners will be announced as part of an online ceremony in early July and will be automatically nominated for the 2021 ULI Global Awards for Excellence, which will be announced later this year.

The full list of finalists (in alphabetical order of project name with developers, owners and designers in parentheses where appropriate) are:

 

• EDGE Grand Central, Berlin, Germany (Developers: EDGE. Owners: Nuveen Real Estate. Designers: Bolwin Wulf Architekten)
• Ernest the Garden and Ernest the Park, Brussels, Belgium (Developers: BPI Real Estate & Immobel. Owners: BPI Real Estate & Immobel. Designers: A2RC – JASPERS EYERS & ARCHITECTS)
• Gare Maritime, Brussels, Belgium (Developers: Extensa Group. Owners: Extensa Group. Designers: Neutelings Riedijk Architecten; Bureau Bouwtechniek)
• Granary Island – Phase 1, Gdansk, Poland (Developers: Immobel Group. Owners: Immobel Group (90%) Multibud (10%). Designers: RKW Architektur + , Kwadrat Studio Architektoniczne)
• Harrow Square, London, United Kingdom (Developers: Hyde New Homes / Barratt West London Joint Venture. Owners: Hyde New Homes. Designers: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM))
• LX Factory, Lisbon, Portugal (Owners: Catumbel – Investimentos Imobiliários e Turísticos, S.A.)
• Piraeus Port Plaza, Piraeus, Greece (Developers: Dimand SA & Grivalia Properties. Owners: Three SPVs, Piraeus Port Plaza 1, 2 & 3. Designers: PPP1 & PPP2 ASPA S.A. / PPP3 3SK Stylianidis Architects / PPP2 listed building: Arcastudio / Atema Architects)
• Renovation, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine (Developers: PrJSC “Ivano-Frankivsky plant “Promprylad”. Owners: PrJSC “Ivano-Frankivsky plant “Promprylad”. Designers: Architect conception Autor architectural agency “FORMA”; Project development managing company “Delta Ukraine”; Technical design and engineering implementation: AVG)
• Windmill Green, Manchester, United Kingdom (Developers: FORE Partnership. Owners: FORE Partnership. Designers: tp bennett)
• Wokingham Town Centre Regeneration, Wokingham, United Kingdom (Developers: Wokingham Borough Council. Owners: Wokingham Borough Council. Designers: Benoy)

The members of the jury, who selected the finalists and will choose the overall winners for the EMEA region, are recognised leaders drawn from many areas of real estate expertise including commercial real estate, public sector, finance, architecture, land planning and development, and professional services.

 

The judging panel is chaired by Giancarlo Scotti, Chairman of GcS& Partners and a former Chair of ULI Italy, and the jury includes Clarissa Alfrink, Avison Young; Theodore Charagionis, Charagionis Group; Sigrid Duhamel, BNP Paribas REIM France; Manfred Guenterberg, Wolfsburg AG; Sophie Henley-Price, STUDIOS Architecture; Karolina Kaim, High Level Advisory; Tinka Kleine, PGGM; Vanessa Muscarà, Europa Capital; and Petran van Heel, Eteck Energy.

 

“The Urban Land Institute shapes the future of the built environment and it is our guiding principle that the achievement of excellence in land use practice should be recognised and rewarded,” said Marnix Galle, Chair of ULI Europe. “The EMEA region is home to many projects which push ingenuity and exemplify best practice in land-use, and we are happy to promote them so that the industry as a whole can continue to learn from each other and have transformative impact in communities worldwide.”

 

“It has been fantastic to see such a diverse range of projects all pushing the boundaries in terms of what can be achieved with carefully considered real estate initiatives,” added Giancarlo Scotti, chair of the 2021 ULI Europe Awards for Excellence Jury. “These ten finalists are leading the way in their respective categories and set an exemplar standard. This year, it has been an even more difficult task for the jury with projects designed and developed pre-Covid but, in operation, will experience a whole new reality which hasn’t even fully come through yet. The process to assess all of the projects that were submitted and to narrow them down to a shortlist has been very enjoyable – we look forward to selecting the winners.”

 

“We were very pleased to receive so many submissions for our ULI Europe Awards for Excellence competition, which were all to a very high standard,” said Lisette van Doorn, ULI Europe CEO. “The Awards for Excellence programme is very important for ULI, as it provides a way to gain recognition for our members for the great work they do and for others to learn from, when developing future real estate projects, especially at such an important yet uncertain point in time, when we know the future will be different from the past but it is not fully clear yet how we will live, work and play when the pandemic will be over.”

 

The ULI Europe Awards for Excellence recognises superior development efforts across the Europe, Middle East and Africa in the private, public, and non-profit sectors. Projects and programmes are evaluated on the extent to which they:

• achieve marketplace acceptance/financial success;
• achieve a high standard of excellence in all areas—architecture, design, planning, construction, amenities, economics, and management, etc.;
• demonstrate relevance to the contemporary and future needs of the community in which they are located;
• have a positive impact in their communities and/or immediate context;
• exhibit environmental sustainability, stewardship, and resiliency; and,
• provide models, lessons, strategies, or techniques that other communities can replicate or adapt.

The jury will be selecting winners in the next few weeks and will also consider “special mentions” for those projects that demonstrate excellence in a particular area such as affordable housing, social value, climate change, resilience, sustainability, life sciences, repurposing, creative placemaking, arts & culture, community engagement, health & wellbeing, and smart technology.

 

For further information about the competition, please visit: https://europe.uli.org/awardsforexcellence/

About the Urban Land Institute

 

• The Urban Land Institute is a non-profit education and research institute supported by its members. Its mission is to shape the future of the built environment for transformative impact in communities worldwide. Established in 1936, the institute has over 45,000 global members representing all aspects of land use and development disciplines.
• ULI has over 4,000 members in Europe across 15 National Council country networks. For more information, please visit uli.org, follow us on Twitter or follow our LinkedIn page.

 

 

The Swedish-Ukrainian IT school Beetroot Academy enters into a strategic partnership with the Promprylad.Renovation project. This partnership will create new opportunities in the digital industry, in particular, a school of new IT professions for unlocking and developing the regional talents in the digital industry.

 

 

Promprylad.Renovation houses collaborations with partners which work out and establish the whole ecosystem for development of digital and creative industries, namely coworking, Makerspace for prototyping, school of new professions, incubators, and accelerators. The innovative environment combines the world’s best educational methods and practices, mentoring, support and creative approaches to gaining new knowledge.

“The partnership with Beetroot Academy will provide an opportunity to expand the range of educational programs, to improve, implement, test new competencies and IT professions, including the education of the younger generation and retraining of the adults one according to the needs of the labor market” – notes Tetiana Vasylyk, Partner Relations Coordinator of the Promprylad.Renovation project.

Beetroot Academy already has a wide network of IT schools in different regions of the country. In turn, Promprylad.Renovation possesses an innovative space and a united community to make training as effective and accessible as possible for different groups of the population. Joining forces will kickstart the development of education in new professions, create a new educational environment, facilitate innovative entrepreneurship and improve the investment climate.

*For reference. Beetroot Academy is a Swedish-Ukrainian socially-oriented IT school that aims to help people build successful careers in the digital economy. Its mission is to open for Ukrainians new opportunities to get an education of the international level for a fraction of the cost, to raise the level of competence in the modern global digital economy. And this is a real push for social and economic development and has a positive effect on society. Beetroot Academy started its activities in 2014 and already has 14 schools across Ukraine, more than 200 partners, 3200 graduates, 70% of whom are employed in IT. Outside Ukraine, Beetroot Academy has successfully expanded its education to two countries, namely Sweden and Kosovo, which is the first step towards a global plan of goal scaling.

The Teple Misto platform, the strategic partner of Promprylad.Renovation,* has started collaboration with the well-known Dutch company Metabolic. The purpose of their joint work is to create a circular vision (inline with the principles of circular economy) for Promprylad.Renovation.

 

Metabolic are experts in creating circular strategies for large-scale projects and entire cities. The company’s mission is to help to create an economic model that ensures the wellbeing of all people and allows organizations to thrive without transgressing the safe boundaries of the earth’s natural systems. Metabolic will work on a comprehensive study of the current state and mapping of material flows of Promprylad.Renovation, such as energy, water, waste within the urban ecosystem of Ivano-Frankivsk. Together with the Teple Misto platform, we will develop a vision for the application of circular economy principles in the revitalization of the plant and in the future full-scale operations of the innovation center. The project will also involve the urban laboratory Metalab, a resident of Promprylad.Renovation. As part of this initiative, they will explore the practices of a circular, carbon-neutral/ “nature-positive” economy. Urban Space Radio will host educational podcasts about what citizens can do now to make cities the engine of change and generators of solutions to today’s challenges.

 

It is important for Promprylad.Renovation to adhere to circular economy principles, so we stick to energy and resource efficient technologies, preserve industrial aesthetics, and thus create a new blueprint for socially responsible businesses and space for all.

 

*Within the framework of the Environmental Policy and Advocacy Initiative for Ukraine, implemented by the International Renaissance Foundation with the financial support of Sweden.