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Online coordinating meeting of mayors of the Platform for Sustainable Development
Posted 9 July 2020
Confirmation of the joint transformation strategy elaboration. Mining towns which belong to the Platform will process the document with the support of three partner projects: USAID Project “Economic Support for the Eastern Ukraine”, EU Project “FORBIZ — Creating Better Business Environment”, and the Project “New Energy — New Opportunities for […]
Strategic session “Economic Diversification. Potential, Strategies, and Instruments for Donetsk Oblast Coal Towns Development”
Posted 12 March 2020
Representatives of the Platform for Sustainable Development of Coal Towns, Donetsk Oblast Military Civil Administration, and international projects working on the East of Ukraine took part. The participants of the meeting analyzed merits of the Platform towns for economic diversification and discussed potential areas of intermunicipal cooperation for coping with […]
Coordinating meeting with donors and international financial institutions in the World Bank premises
Posted 24 February 2020Discussing the presentation and discussing the potential shaft waters utilization projects
Preparatory Meeting
Posted 25 January 2020
The Preparatory Meeting for Poland-Ukraine Knowledge-Exchange for Coal Regions in Transition. Invitation and participation of the Platform’s representatives.
Discussing projects of shaft waters utilization projects
Posted 12 December 2019Emphasis on two topics — alternative water supply (shaft waters refining) and using for heat generation
Forum “Climate Ambitions of Towns”
Posted 29 November 2019
From 28 till 29th November the Forum “Climate Ambitions of Towns” was held in Lviv, organized jointlyby 350.org Ukraine, Ukrainian Climate Network, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Ukraine, Partnership for Local Economic Development and Democratic Governance Project (PLEDDG). Two representatives of the Platform for Sustainable Development of Donetsk Oblast Coal Towns were among the […]
A workshop for the Ukrainian coal towns: “Elaboration of Coal Towns Joint Project: Recycling of Shaft Waters for Providing Sustainable Water Supply”
Posted 1 November 2019Presenting project ideas by the event participants, comments by experts and discussing further steps
Annual political dialogue of the European Commission Platform “Transformation of Coal Regions”
Posted 25 October 2019
The Mayor of Vuhledar and the First Deputy Mayor of Dobropillia in the capacity of the Platform for Sustainable Development of Donetsk Oblast representatives agreed on collaboration with East German coal towns Weißwasser and Belsow and also with an informal amalgamation of more than 40 mining towns of the East […]